![.. . . Tomorrow morning, if diminutive, 39-year old World Health Organization consultant, psychologist, rape victim and mother Dr. Norma Patricia Esparza doesn’t plead guilty to an (unspecified lesser) […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/norma-esparza-e1384986145306.jpg "“It’ll be a fun trial!” gloats prosecutor, as T-Rack springs 18-year old murder charge on rape victim.")
![As I stood about waiting for Wednesday’s marathon Coastal Commission hearing to begin, and beheld our nemesis, Poseidon VP Scott Maloni, stomping about scowling, I resolved to shake his hand. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/poseidon-entrained-1-115x115.jpg "Poseidon runs headlong into “Infiltration Gallery.”")
![This is OCTA Board Chairman Gregory Winterbottom, in his natural state. You may remember him a few weeks ago, when Diana Lee Carey finished a speech with the exasperated cry, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/winterbottomcrabluminositycopy-e1383965772929.jpg "Toll-Lane Uprising 2: Delay, Kabuki, and the Staggering Arrogance of Chairman Winterbottom.")
![. . . “First they came for the 405, and I said nothing for I rarely use the 405. Then they came to put toll lanes on MY freeway, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/No-OC-Toll-Lanes-115x115.png "The Uprising Against O.C. Toll Lanes. Pt 1")
![“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!” As this past Halloween approached, the county’s alternative weekly, the estimable OC Weekly – whose motto LIKE […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jabberwockandmore-115x115.jpg "O Frabjous Day: Our Alt-Weekly correctly identifies our Scariest People! We elaborate…")
![The Orange Juice Blog can report – hours before the Register‘s Mickadeit, but hours AFTER Gustavo’s well-written spoiler – what’s been rumored for weeks and what we COULD have reported […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/galloway-swearing-cropped-115x115.jpg "GALLOWAY IS IN, for Anaheim Mayor. What Now?")
![. . . Crazy stuff, crazy stuff, what-all the Republican Party is going through. Out in Washington, having held their breath till their faces turned blue and still failing to […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/vern-and-donnelly-115x115.jpg "GOP fault lines: Scott Baugh dice “HOLA,” while Newport Teabaggers fete Minuteman Tim Donnelly.")
![In our last dispatch on the 405 Tolls controversy, we intimated that a convenient convergence between Federal law and state law on low-emission vehicles and carpool lanes had opened up […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/carey-dana-loretta-115x115.png "Weekend Open Thread: Diana Lee Carey writes to OC’s federal delegation about 405 Tolls – UPDATED with video")
![…didn’t have the energy to finish that sentence, being without a government today and all, but makes good enough sense as it is. Maybe our local Republican friends can weigh […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/sick-sad-elephant-115x115.jpg "The Republican Party shuts down…")
![[Sad-face emoticon — I see Gus’ old website has died…] Background Almost exactly a year ago, in one of our dozens of pieces following last year’s debate of 405 improvements, […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/no405tolls-ad-115x115.jpg "OCTA Board inches closer to giving away our 405 to the Toll Trolls.")
![Okay, ordinarily I wouldn’t write a story about an upcoming concert of mine, except that it just turns out – serendipitously! – to have more to do with some of […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/cri-cri-gabilondo-soler-115x115.jpg "Cri-Cri, Mexican Independence Day, and Vern’s Sept. 15 Concert")
![Tony Jalali is furious. A fireball of righteous Persian-American energy, he jabs the Varsity Burgers table hard with his short fingers to emphasize his many points. Apparently he’s moved past […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Jalalibuilding-cuffed-115x115.jpg "Tony Jalali, and Anaheim’s Avaricious, Hypocritical War on Medical Pot.")
![I should have kept up with my good old friends from Huntington Beach; I kind of knew they had formed a “Harvest Club” a few years ago, but I had […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/harvest-club-3-115x115.jpg "Do you have what it takes to be a HARVEST CAPTAIN? Meet OC’s Harvest Club…")
![It’s rare, difficult, and refreshing for a lawmaker to admit making a mistake, and attempt to rectify it. I remember back in 2009 when Assemblyman Solorio realized that he’d made […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/sqs-debbie-115x115.jpg "Quirk-Silva rescinds Poseidon support, will hold Water Townhall with Debbie Cook!")
I know.
Oh I was addressing the anonymous critic.
Now is a good time to remind everyone of the excellent reporting on Bari Weiss that John Oliver did on…
Why bother?
For what it's worth, the Register is finally covering this. https://www.ocregister.com/2025/12/30/parents-file-claim-against-anaheim-alleging-excessive-force-in-fatal-shooting-of-son-by-police/?utm_email=8523042DB559841FD546342943&lctg=8523042DB559841FD546342943&active=yesD&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Story+Button&utm_campaign=scng-orange_county_register-breaking_news-nl&utm_content=alert
The graffiti? It's on the fucking APD "Critical Incident Report" video. How come you never saw it? You couldn't prove…
I enjoy dropping by. But the point was that no one really cares what Jerb is saying. He hit his…
Vern, Tell me again how Albert had nothing to do with the videotaped criminal act??
Never been convicted of a crime = never been convicted of a crime. We don't know what woulda happened in…
In an effort to continue to hide Trump’s sedition on January 6 as well as his criminal mishandling of classified…