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   Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gnter Grass still thinks reunification was a bad idea.
 Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
 With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.
 The best recent memoir from republican Washington is a hoax. That should tell you something.
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July 27, 2007
By: THE REAL OC....Finally, my hometown of Irvine gets written up in Slate. And any publicity is good publicity, right? —Kevin Drum 1:18 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (11)Comments
Kevin, you're from Irvine? Hah! So someone out there does know what goes on behind the Orange Curtain...real estate empires are the least of our worries; when the Trinity Broadcasting Network is 2 freeway exits down (think the crazy lady Tammy Faye-look-alike with the purple hair and fake lashes) and an airport named after John Wayne, plus a political culture that might even make Barry Goldwater blink, it's an interesting place to live... Posted by: Adam on July 27, 2007 at 1:29 AM | PERMALINKKevin, you're too old to have Irvine as a hometown. Posted by: PS on July 27, 2007 at 2:14 AM | PERMALINKIrvine ? Oh yea, that group of open fields just west of that Marine Air Facility where those blimp hangars are and all... I remember that place "A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy" - Benjamin Disraeli The writer is clearly and idiot with no idea of what the OC is about. Comparing it to NJ and LA to NYC, clearly the man has no clue. I stopped reading after that. Posted by: The fake fake al on July 27, 2007 at 10:44 AM | PERMALINKNo, no...Irvine is the Long Island to LA's NYC. Go Anteaters. Posted by: Vincent on July 27, 2007 at 12:37 PM | PERMALINKAnd, of course, Slate gets the OC wrong too. The ignoble giant taht was Ameriquest is NOT based in Irvine. It is based in Orange. But, being a typical Irvinian, Kevin probably craves the attention so much that he gleefully accepts credit for more than his fair share, even when it is tragedy. Posted by: SoCalAnon on July 27, 2007 at 1:27 PM | PERMALINKWhen we first moved to Irvine from Santa Ana (for the schools, of course), I felt the place had all the personality of a styrofoam coffee cup. After a while, I came to like the winding avenues and dearth of 7-11 stores. As far as being in the thrall of real estate developers, that's a true statement for all of South County. Posted by: DonInCal on July 27, 2007 at 1:43 PM | PERMALINKInteresting that the expression "went tapioca" has begun to usurp older expressions such as "went haywire" or "went tits up". Which Irvine? Alberta, Canada, Kentucky, USA, California, USA, Irvinebank, Australia? Posted by: Catmoves on July 27, 2007 at 4:22 PM | PERMALINKPeople in Irvine are generally the type that object vociferously to the prospect of a new commercial airport being located on the old El Toro MCAS site, and then complain equally loudly about the amount of traffic on the way to LAX or John Wayne / Orange County, and the flight delays at those airports. Posted by: Donald from Hawaii, and formerly from Pasadena on July 27, 2007 at 5:36 PM | PERMALINK
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