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- Greatest pianist/composer in Orange County, and official political troubadour of Anaheim and most other OC towns. Regularly makes solo performances, sometimes with his savage-jazz band The Vern Nelson Problem. Reach at vernpnelson@gmail.com, or 714-235-VERN.
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…
![“OVERWHELMING FORCE” – Sgt. Montanarella’s shot across Anaheim’s bow Some time in the next couple of months, the Anaheim City Council will vote to pick a new permanent police chief. But it won’t exactly be the Council choosing between […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/montanarella-melee-115x115.jpg)
![Poseidon, the Disney Streetcar, and the Camel’s Nose in the Tent. Guys. And girls. Do we have to talk to our electeds and Board representatives like children? Does this really have to be our job? Because it seems that our generally […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/camels-nose-in-tent-115x115.jpg)
![How sanctimonious Matt Cunningham worked and fought for Strip Club owners last year! Admirers of Matt Cunningham’s stunning moral flexibility now have a new morsel to chew on – his successful “consulting” work last year, for “$1000 to $10,000” (probably $5000) to help […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jerbal-with-strippers-115x115.jpg)
![How Sanctimonious Matt Cunningham worked and fought for Strip Club owners! (G-rated version) . . . Admirers of Matt Cunningham’s stunning moral flexibility now have a new morsel to chew on – his successful “consulting” work last year, for “$1000 to $10,000” (probably […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/california-girls-marquee-e1376678693651.jpg)
![POLL: Which Pringle crony will wear a wire for the Feds? . . . On the heels of Cynthia Ward’s latest Voice of OC Disney-streetcar bombshell, and bearing in mind the identity of Disney’s trusty transportation “consultant,” the question asks itself. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pringle-associates-115x115.jpg)
![WE CAME FIRST – Ten years of the Orange Juice Blog! Yes, we came first, damn it. I shoulda done this post on July 11, but the time she slips away. Yes, 7-11 was the ten-year anniversary of this august and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/beating-chest-over-10-years-115x115.jpg)
![The Dangerous Votes of Sharon Quirk-Silva. Last month I expressed my disappointment that our new Democratic assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (pictured above taking on corruption and injustice in Sacramento) had joined forces with Reefer Madness Republicans and […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SQSasgunfighter-cropped-e1375058597353.jpg)
![NON-BREEDER’S DAY takes America by storm! Concert Sunday afternoon! “Whether through Gaiety, Inability, Circumstance or Choice, you declined to add to our species’ population, we Mothers and Fathers salute you!” Yes, it seems like only last week that this […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Non-Breeder-Families-115x115.jpg)
![What was the big deal about some principal getting transferred from one Anaheim school to another? . Yeah, what WAS that all about, back in May and June? (The kerfuffle is beginning to simmer down now.) Dr. Roberto Baeza, popular and successful principal of Anaheim’s Benito […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/baeza-murray-moreno-115x115.jpg)
![Democracy gets blue balls, as Judge Franz Miller grants Anaheim another three weeks – UPDATED! . This is all we know so far: Judge Miller granted a three-week stay, for the anti-democracy forces of Anaheim to try to prove that their Santa Ana dog food-style […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/franz-miller-blue-balls-115x115.jpg)
![TAKE BACK THE FOURTH (Amendment) on the 4th – now with great PIC! . This came galloping across our transom late last night, sounding for all the world like the hoofbeats of Paul Revere on horseback: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Huntington Beach, CA 7/2/2013 […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/July-4-2013-004-115x115.jpg)
![Huntington Beach respectfully asks Coastal Commission to shitcan Poseidon. . Last we left our plucky Huntington Beach City Council – before that irritating distraction with the fire pits – they’d been discussing… Wait, let me back up. Way […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/hb-council-2013-e1370842111693.jpg)
![Sirloin or Dog Food? Council prepares to foist Santa Ana-style faux-districting on Anaheim tonight. . Anaheim’s Corporatist Council Majority. From top left clockwise: Kris Murray, Lucille Kring, Gail Eastman, Jordan Brandman. (hat-tip to young Jayson Acevedo for noting the Kring-Incredibles resemblance!) Okay. So. This […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/4-Anaheim-council-corporatists-115x115.jpg)
![AB 473 for medical marijuana dies: Do Democrats representing the OC really HAVE to be Police-State Democrats? . Bill Maher’s final New Rule this weekend was especially appropriate and timely to today’s story (starting at 2:10) Episode 284 by BillMaher1956 High points, my emphases: “Finally, new rule […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/oc-police-state-dems-2013-115x115.jpg)
In an effort to continue to hide Trump’s sedition on January 6 as well as his criminal mishandling of classified…