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War College

Illustration by Bob AulABRAHAM. “AL.” AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL. ANTHRAX. AREA, COMPARATIVE. BAGHDAD. BLOOD. BUSH, GEORGE W. CASUALTIES. CHENEY, DICK. CHICKENHAWK. CLAREMONT. COLLATERAL DAMAGE. DOMESTIC POLICY. ESCHATOLOGY. EUROPE, OLD. FRANKS, TOMMY. FREE VERSE. FREEDOM FRIES. FRIENDLY FIRE. FUNDING, TERRORIST. GAS. HALABJA. HUMAN SHIELDS. IRAQ.ISRAEL.JIHAD.JUST WAR THEORY.KISSINGER, HENRY.KURDS.LANGLEY.McCAFFREY, BARRY.McVEIGH, TIMOTHY.MONEY.NATION BUILDING.NOBODY HOME.NOT IN OUR NAME (NION).NUCLEAR WEAPONS.NUMBERS. …

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Letters

Contact us via e-mail (le*****@oc******.com), regular mail (Letters to the Editor, OC Weekly, P.O. Box 10788, Costa Mesa, CA 92627) or fax (714-708-8410). Visit our website at www.ocweekly.com. Letters will be edited for clarity and length. All correspondence must include your home city and a daytime phone number. REPUBLICAN, RANT, REACT Noticed the repetitious “When …

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The Tool

Photo by Brian NewelThe story of Scrooge, that penny-pinching misanthropist from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, has proven remarkably open to interpretation. We've seen female Scrooges, Scrooge as a network executive, Mr. Magoo as Scrooge. Now the Maverick Theater unveils a brand-new adaptation featuring Scrooge, the tool. Scrooge (Mike Martin) has always been a tool. …

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It's the Economy, Stupid

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's dotty performance Sunday on Meet the Press signals just how vicious Bush can be when he puts his buddies out to dry. O'Neill's insistence that the fundamentals of the economy are great is buttressed by the administration's deliberately twisted facts, such as: •Bush projects that the stock market will rise this …

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Here N Now

Photo by Jack GouldTwo years ago, Local 681 of the Hotel Employees N Restaurant Employees (HERE) had a lot going for it. A string of brand-new hotels in downtown Garden Grove, full of workers who wanted to join a union, a crew of dedicated organizers—everything but a contract. But now the campaign is over. The …

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Trawling for Tinis

Martinis are here and now. They're also yesterday and the day before. They just won't seem to go away but keep getting new life beat into 'em like they're Madonna discovering cowboy hats. Some astute observers say that the only reason people drink martinis is for the packaging: that slender, sexy stemware magically turning whomever …

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Richard Thompson

If your radio were working, you'd hear Richard Thompson on it. What's broken isn't an easily remedied matter of capacitors and speaker coils, though, but a moribund corporate monopoly that only plays “product” dull and calculated enough to be songs from Amortizing, the Musical. Jeez, it's boring just talking about it, so let's instead address …

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Diary of a Mad County

Illustration by Bob AulMONDAY, Jan. 14On his morning radio show (broadcast locally on KLSX-FM 97.1), Howard Stern asks Dana Reeve, the wife of actor/director Christopher Reeve, if they killed the horse that threw the Superman star, who was left paralyzed. “No,” answers the missiz. “This lady named Joan Irvine Smith gave us $1 million” to …

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Diary of a mad county

JANUARY The realfirst day of the millennium came and went without a hitch. Did anyone really think something bad, evil, deadly, horrific and life-as-we-know-it-altering would ever happen to us? . . . Patti Dalby and ex-boyfriend C. Brooks Brann entered a Newport Beach courtroom to fight for custody of a 125-pound, black-and-tan rottweiler named Guinness. …

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Hate-Filled Letters

Editor's note: The following are excerpts from letters we received during 2001. Enjoy! Matt Coker is a hypocrite. You guys are pathetic fuckers. Chris Ziegler is a dumb ass. Jim Washburn is an asshole and a dumbass. Week in and week out, the Weekly is full of the same liberal democratic [sic] crap that I …

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