Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Tod Burnett, Lee Baca, et al.

     Back in December (see) we noted the curious circumstance that Saddleback College President, and prayer enthusiast, Tod Burnett is the “Education Editor” of a semi-conservative and New Agey (specifically martial artsy) magazine called Legends & Legacies.
     As I reported, the editors of L&L tell us that they follow a strategy that “can be found in the book, The Five Principles of Everything,” which is exactly as flaky as it sounds. Its author, Gordon Richiusa, happens to be one of L&L’s editors. He’s also a part-time English instructor at Saddleback College. Richiusa’s first novel was called SHIDOSHI: The Four Ways of The Corpse.
     Richiusa is heavily into New Agey martial arts malarkey, as is another of L&L’s editors, Frank Dux, Editor At Large. Dux is a pretty iffy character, a typical self-promoter guru type. (I.e., he's a lying sack of shit.)
     Today, I noticed that yet another L&L editor is the one and only Lee Bacacontroversial Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California.
     You know about him. He defends shark finning. He’s been criticized for “placing friends on the payroll, taking … gifts,” and worse (see). Swell guy.
     L&Ls Managing Editor is one Dana Stamos. She maintains a right wing blog that busies itself with defending the homophobic Duck Dynasty knucklehead, attacking Obamacare, and generally praising the Lord. Great.
     I wonder how Saddlebackians feel about their leader associating with such a rag?

Wendy's bid for the 73rd AD (update)

Re Wendy Gabriella’s Crashing and Burning Republican opponent (update of Wendy Gabriella's 73rd AD opponent, Jesse Petrilla, has an arrest record [DtB; Jan 29]):
● AD73 Update: Jesse Petrilla’s 15 year Pattern of Anger and Violence (OC Politics Blog; January 31)
● AD-73 Update: The Jesse Petrilla Felony Conviction Scandal Expands (OC Politics Blog; Feb 5)

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...