![. . . First, check out my new video of the great dissonant 20th-century Hungarian composer Bela Bartok‘s early composition, Rumanian Dance #1 (1910.) It’s good for you! It’ll put […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bartok1-e1416005631973.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Bartok, Bar talk, and Covered California Open Enrollment Season!")
![. . . 1. SHORT VERSION! (See below for all our thinking behind each recommendation – mostly Greg’s!) Statewide Races: Vote for the Democrat. Sorry, none of the Republicans are […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Electoral-Collage-2014-115x115.jpg "The Orange Juice Blog’s Comprehensive 2014 Voters’ Guide!")
![. . . Beloved Westminster Councilwoman Diana Lee Carey, protégé of the late great Gus Ayer, and famed for having fought off the OCTA’s 405 Toll Lane dreams years before […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mansoor-carey-115x115.jpg "Diana Lee Carey: Democrats (and independents) should support MANSOOR for Supervisor!")
![. . . [Editor’s note: OJB received a copy of the letter below in image format, but ran it through the OCR machine so that it could be published as […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Fck-the-Pulido1-115x115.jpg "The ACLU Gives Pulido and the Santa Ana City Council a Constitutional Smackdown: YOU Violated the Law!")
![[Ed. Note: This piece first appeared at “Santanero Zine,” where you can go to find photographs of the events from Andrew Galvin. Reprinted by permission of the author.] HOW I […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Alicia-Rojas-in-Gallery-e1413745503623.jpg "‘How I Almost Got Arrested at City Council,’ by Alicia Rojas — A Santa Ana Story")
![. . . WHILE we are printing pieces that The Register and its subsidiaries refuse to, here is a response Eric Bever wrote to a typically whory pro-toll editorial (“Toll […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bever-kicking-caltrans-115x115.png "405 Tolls: Eric Bever’s Modest Proposal for CalTrans")
![FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bao-and-Bookends-115x115.jpg "Bao? Wow. WOW! OC Register Endorses Bao Nguyen for GG Mayor Post, Abandoning Broadwater")
![“Unpaid Bill” Brough — the nickname derives from his reneging on his mortgage payments, as reported by The Liberal OC — continued his impressive record of ducking appearances with his […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Wendy-Gabriella-with-Anna-Bryson-at-forum-115x115.jpg "“Unpaid Bill” Brough Chickens Out and Ducks Cox Communication Debate with Wendy Gabriella")
![[Ed. note: Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has had a letter published in today’s OC Register, which we’re reproducing here.] It’s October and the Angels are going into post-season play with the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tait-angels-cap1-e1412268098266.jpg "Mayor Tait: Let’s Keep the Angels at Home in Anaheim")
![[Credit to our friend Ricardo Toro for the suggestion. We can only use about half of this story, for copyright reasons, but you can follow this link to get the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Climate-Change-Lobster-Boat-Blockade-115x115.jpg "Is the Climate Changing on Law Enforcement Towards Climate Change Protests?")
![. . . This came – wow, at the last minute – from our buddy Jonathan Adler: Dear fellow activists, I invite you to UCI Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky‘s 7th […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/chemerinsky-3-115x115.gif "Let’s Go Hear Professor Chemerinsky Friday afternoon! “Another Momentous Year at the Supreme Court.”")
![. . . Bao Nguyen isn’t going to take the Broadwater Nepotism Scandal — one that has reportedly endangered the lives of Garden Grove residents by saddling them with an […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bao-and-Broadwater-115x115.jpg "Bao Nguyen Calls for Investigation of Broadwater ‘Dangerous Nepotism in City Hiring’ Scandal")
![. . . So much death, mayhem, pain and sadness in the news and on this blog lately, our readers have been clamoring for a weekend open thread that is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/baby-evil-eye-115x115.png "Cuteness Weekend Open Thread – UPDATE – LOTS of new videos this beautiful Sunday morning!")
![The following is taken from a press release by the Orange County Employees Association — which, you’ll shortly discover, is pissed. This surprise money grab is the problem you get when […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dennis-Bilodeau-money-115x115.png "The Supervisors’ Shameless and Expensive Inside Game")
Corporatist is good since these types are always affiliating themselves with the big money, the big labor or the big…
Now Ali Taj has raised more than either ADA (like by 40k) and pulido during the same reporting period. Dispelling…
Yeah, it's hard for me to choose the perfect terminology, corporatist, kleptocrat, DINO, vendido, many others, but I decided to…
Chad Bianco up on broadcast with his first spot. Wearing his Sheriff shirt [does he own anything else?] lest we…
I suspect that for most voters the operative motivation will be keeping the other party from winning, even if that…
You're a dog with a bone on this. Equally valid legally, fine (though distinctly defined in law as different in…
The "business Democrat" label is misleading, unless you count kleptocracy, Zionism and cop-loving to the mix. That's been going on…
Spitzer is very particular about who he go after for residency fraud.
Are they one single household now? They apparently claimed to live in separate domiciles and served on different city councils…
I guess I was hoping to speak to a lot of readers who might not be familiar with the term…