Marc Cooper

NOW WE LEARN THAT ANDREW JONES, the right-wing wack job who was offering UCLA students $100 a pop for information on and tape recordings of their supposedly “radical professors,” has withdrawn his monetary offer. What a wuss! After Jones provoked a mini-media storm last week with his crusade to cleanse......

IMPEACHMENT FEVER HAS OFFICIALLY broken out, and it makes the avian flu look like ?a two-day head cold. The primary symptoms are sustained delusional bouts that lead the victims to imagine that a Republican-controlled Congress — on the eve of midterm elections, no less — would actually indict and convict......

THE L.A. TIMES HAS JUST FINISHED running a bang-up four-part takedown on the United Farm Workers union that was directly inspired by — if not in great part derived from — our own reporting on the subject last summer (“Sour Grapes,” August 12–18, 2005) as well as by a groundbreaking......

Angry is not an answer There’s a myth out there that Democrats should be angrier. If they could just be nasty like the Republicans, and get their hands just as dirty, the Democrats would win. Wrong. It’s hope that wins elections. And sometimes fear. Never anger. Democrats lose not from......

This week Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will decide whether the convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips gang, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, lives or dies. But that’s all that should be decided. Not whether Williams has been redeemed. Merely, will he be executed on December 13? I’m a death penalty abolitionist and......

Before the spring of 2003, watching poker on TV was a bit like watching flies fornicate. There was nothing to see. Not until L.A. entrepreneur Steve Lipscomb put the World Poker Tour series on the Travel Channel. Lipscomb figured out that if you could show viewers the two “hole cards”......

LAS VEGAS — No one seems surprised that world-class poker champ Phil Hellmuth Jr. has shown up late to his own kickoff seminar at his recent three-day Fantasy Poker Camp at Caesars Palace. This is part of Phil’s shtick. Bursting with confident arrogance, he can be counted on to be......

BILOXI, MISS. — The future of blackjack has been revealed and it’s ugly. As legalized gambling continues to blossom, with a record 73 million Americans expected to visit a casino before the end of this year, the industry’s managers are scrambling to stack the odds on the simple card game......

Come back, Mike Kinsley. You can even cart back your wacky Wiki-torials and unsigned, format-breaking and often irrelevant rants. All is forgiven. Much of the shiny gimmickry deployed by the L.A. Times’ recently departed editorial director to reinvent his section of the paper during his brief, one-year tenure didn’t quite......

When you’re finished reading this issue of L.A. Weekly, you might think about preserving its news pages between glass and locking them up in a closet somewhere. If current trends continue, newspapers of any sort are going to be museum pieces.No, I’m not talking about the plans of the investment......