LA RIOTS

The Bou' wants everyone to remember, it's not okay to steal Huggies, unless everything is burning and your police force is as crooked as the court system.

if THAT don't insult your manhood...

California sure plays up an awful lot of macho BS - I mean first there was Eric Estrada, (man, he should have a really cool logo or something), and of course, the governator; but what's up with the glorification of the west coast thug?

ESPECIALLY WHEN A TEENAGE GIRL CAN BEAT THEIR ASSES WITH A MARCHING BAND BATTON.

for a brief moment I thought "so...?"

...then I figured out the siblings who locked their retarded sister in a shed were not ten years old, but in their 40s and 50s.

ahhhh....the peninsula.

san francisco to pay $100K for telling men to pee on sidewalk

there is so much wrong with this story it is almost right.

I wish there were photos.

concerned citizen stops progress

some hippie is possibly preventing the entire south of california from being paved to protect a salamander that can't even cross a road without getting smooshed. I swear.

I apologize for being tardy

to the whole "miss california usa" thing, but want to point out that I am not the only one with tard in the title on this one.

The Bou' has learned on good authority that Miss USA is apparently the "ghetto beauty pageant" so it should only seem natural that this spectacular story seems perfectly tailored for some quality "opinion journalism" from all sides.

Failing to see the race to win it

umm, the Bou' is confused about this one.


yes, there are apparently angry people because of "affirmative action for white people"

because new admissions policies at the University of California system "will greatly expand the applicant pool, eliminate the requirement that applicants take two SAT subject tests and reduce the number of students guaranteed admission based on grades and test scores alone."

the hills of beverly

So, the Bou' wants to know which is more lame:

1) Naming a bank "First Bank of Beverly Hills" even though your bank is not located in Beverly Hills

or

2) Naming a bank "First Bank of Beverly Hills" and not having your crap together enough to avoid being shut down by the government?

Thanks for getting our hopes up that a bunch of smug assholes would be losing their money only to realize it's not the same assholes we thought it would be.

Also thanks to the LATimes for the lamest URI i the history of URIs:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2009/04/federal-regulators-shut-down-the-first-bank-of-beverly-hills-late-today-and-said-they-would-send-checks-to-insured-deposito.html

It brings a little tattooed tear to my eye

FRESNO ALERT!!!

The Bou' loves it when Fresno is in the news - and it's hard to find a better story and forcibly tattooing a seven year old with a gang sign when it comes to, well, the central valley lifestyle.

It's telling that it took two people to do this - both the tattoo artist and the father to hold the child down. Now that's true love.

helping children and fighting gangs? isn't that your job?

The OC is such a special place. The OC is where cops who intimidate witnesses are allowed to ask for reduced sentances because of their record of work helping children and fighting gangs.

wait a minute... aren't you a cop? you mean you're getting paid in exchange for helping children and fighting gangs and you would get fired if you didn't and you think that means you deserve to be able to serve less time for committing crimes while supposedly enforcing the law?

well, that's just phenomenally assenine.

vegan terrorists

miltant animal rights activists... hmmm...

the Bou' wonders which state they'd come from...

oh wait, no he doesn't. California, my friends. California is where Daniel Andreas San Diego, who bombed multiple facilities who contracted with an animal testing facility, lived...wait for it...no, not in the woods (good guess though) the suburban sprawl of wine country. gotta love it.

queue the line from repo man...

"I blame society - society made me what I am"

but why stop with one californian celebrity trial

WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM????

I will point out that mostly they blame crystal meth for all of phil spector's problems - but the Bou' knows it's really only California that can take a nice jewish boy from new york and turn him in to one of the most spectacular freaks of nature ever to point a gun at joey ramone.

when the top and the bottom get to scrappin'

man, woody allen and dov charney bitch slapping each other in court. California is an amazing place.