- Description
- Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
![I had an interesting conversation here last week with a commenter named “Nick Ceci” about the police shooting of Manuel “Stomper” Diaz, which happened nine months ago this upcoming Sunday. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Stomper-Diaz-on-ground-after-shooting-115x115.jpg "Did a Cornered ‘Stomper’ Diaz Try to Shoot a Cop With His Finger? How Do We Know?")
![It’s so rare that one can see economic theories tested in real time, but it happened just last week. At 5:35 p.m. Eastern Time on April 9, exactly one week […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/BitCoins-115x115.jpg "BitCoin Bubble Burst-Day Anniversary: Monetary Policy for Dummies (and I Do Mean Greater Fools)")
![. Video available through NBC.com shows the first of two explosions that occurred a little over 4 hours into the Boston Marathon, near its finish line. The second explosion, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Boston-Marathon-Explosion-115x115.jpg "Joining the Rest of the World: Domestic Terrorism at Boston Marathon")
![I know that this isn’t a local story (except to the extent that we’re part of the globe affected by this global story), but anytime a powerful corporation uses threats […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Exxon-Arkansas-Oil-Spill-115x115.png "“Exxon Hates Your Children” Ad Spiked in Arkansas, Site of Mayflower Pipeline Spill")
![I followed a link this week to an internet site that presented what looks to me like a pretty good list of books for an educated person to have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Book-Mug1-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Keeping the Books")
![Friend of the show (and my friend on Facebook) Joe “Not Dr. Jose” Moreno, former opponent of Tom Daly in AD-69, posts a photo of the first Scarlet Letter sign […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Sexual-Predator-Sign-115x115.jpg "Did You Engage in Sexual Play Before Age 18? Should YOU Have a Sign Like This Posted In Your Yard?")
![I don’t really want to start a skirmish in the blog wars, but I can’t quite figure out what Dan Chmielewski is getting at in his defense yesterday of the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Subscribe-tollbooth-115x115.jpg "Lib OC’s Defense of the Register’s Paywall is Confusing")
![Here’s what I like to think of when I think of Margaret Thatcher: the Thatcher Effect, an important demonstration of how the brain encodes information about facial perception. Turn the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Thatcher-effect-115x115.jpg "The Thatcher Effect: Perceptions of Privatization and Public Privation")
![1. The Online Dating Scene I Once Knew The saddest story that I have read this year was a mostly breezy tale by Anne Lamott in Salon entitled “My year […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/tracy-hepburn-115x115.jpg "Anne Lamott Never Asked My Opinion About Her Love Life, But Then Again This Post Isn’t for Her")
![I’ve finally started remembering to schedule my time on the treadmill for during my favorite public radio programs, which aids me in my greatest wish for those moments in my […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Aspie-Actors-115x115.jpg "The (Unofficial, Non-Diagnostic … but Still) Asperger’s Quiz")
![The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery Commentator Thom Hartmann posted a column in January, based on the research of Carl T. Bogus, arguing that the Second Amendment was ratified […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Second-Amendment-and-Slave-Patrols-115x115.jpg "Weekend Open Thread: Just a Second — Were Gun Rights Intended to Preserve Slavery?")
![1. The Challenge of Challenging Challengers If one thing has come through loud and clear at DPOC events so far this year, at what seems like at least one speech […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Alligator-Watermelon-2-115x115.jpg "Cal Labor Fed Issues Legislative Scorecards: Jose Solorio Sets a Dubious Record")
![UPDATE: The OC Register, in a wise decision to ease its embargo, reports the Kyndall Jack has been located and that rescue operations are underway: “Searchers have found Kyndall Jack, the […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Holy-Jim-Trail-115x115.jpg "Missing Male Hiker Rescued from Trabuco Canyon; UPDATE 2: Female Hiker Rescued!")
![Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you. By now you shoulda somehow realized what you gotta do. Yes, the OC Register’s “wonderwall” is […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Wonderwall-snip-115x115.jpg "Let the Dearthwatch Begin! OC Register Erects Its Wonderwall, Throws It Back to You")
Typical Dan C argument: I don't understand it, so it is bad. I refuse to study it in any detail.…