Business Friends Mortgage Broker Ocean Pacific Capital--If you need a loan, these guys will find it for you--fast! Bank South County Bank--A small bank in South Orange County that works hard for my business Food Gina’s Pizza--Eat in or take delivery; it’s good stuff Rumari Restaurant--A fine, homey Italian place; our girls love the fettucine Alfredo with shrimp; order the Caesar even though it’s not on the menu Dizz’s As Is--Come as you are--none of the dishes or silverware match, but the place is fun and the food is fine Dentistry Island Dentistry--Ken Garcia will fix your teeth, when he’s not out playing music Recreation Laguna Cyclery--A fine LBS (Local Bike Shop) that specializes in Italian road bikes Santiago Cycling--Robert Kahler will sell you a better bicycle than you can afford and make you love it, and you can get fit in his famous training classes Veloce Santiago Cycling Club--I belong; good folks who even put up with me Yoga Works--pleasant Yoga studio Advertising & Design Reeder & Co.--These are the folks that designed the “hammer & gavel” logo. El Jefe, Dan, is my brother-in-law, very smart & very funny. He’s supposedly semi-retired and working on a “project,” but wave a bottle of good Scotch at him and he just might desert his muse for you Ideas Blogs Grumpy Old Man--That’s me, in my opinionated, nonprofessional guise American Digest--Former Lagunan who gets eloquent and finds amazing stuff on the Net Hugh Hewitt--Radio talk-show host and law professor who has inspired many bloggers; committed Republican and evangelical, but worth reading whether you agree or not Eunomia -- A prolific blog by a self-proclaimed reactionary Michael Barone--This guy knows the nuts and bolts of American politics better than anyone else; he thinks, too Michael Weintraub--”California Insider”--Blog with the best information and insights about California state politics Albion's Seedlings--Blog with many insights about the “Anglosphere” and history, inspired by David Fisher’s Albion’s Seed City Journal--Online journal of the Manhattan Institute, featuring, among others, Heather MacDonald and Theodore Dalrymple Victor Davis Hanson--Sometime Central Valley farmer and classics professor who has become expert in military history and written convincingly about the post 9/11 world Steve Sailer--Blogs on race, evolution, society and movies Marc Cooper--My favorite lefty blog Family Joisey Dan Epstein Photography--If you want your affair (i.e., wedding or bar mitzvah) documented as a live event, Dan will do it and do it well; take a look at his site--it’s one of the best I’ve seen Wild Bird Center--West Caldwell--Where Tony Soprano goes to get food for the ducks; run by my talkative sister Phoebe, ex-corporate Big Shot and bird expert Gotham Jonathan Segal--Pianist/Singer--he’ll play or sing anything, with patter to go with it Phoebe’s Photoblog--My sister bought herself an expensive camera, and has managed to justify the purchase Texas Danielaphant--My eldest doesn’t post much, but her writing is really good California WifeBear--How the real Lagunans live, as told by She Who Must Be Obeyed, a character much loved by the great Rumpole Zoë’s Scribbles--Another daughter of many talents, who sometimes posts her poems here http://opcapital.com/http://southcountybank.comhttp://www.ginaspizza.com/http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile.aspx?rid=5181http://orangecounty.citysearch.com/profile/598781/laguna_beach_ca/dizz_s_as_is.htmlhttp://www.islanddentistry4u.com/http://lagunacyclery.net/index.cfmhttp://www.cyclingpros.comhttp://velocesantiago.orghttp://www.yogaworks.com/orangecounty/studios.asp?loc=LBhttp://www.reederco.com/Home.htmlhttp://www.globaloctopus.blogspot.comhttp://http://americandigest.org/http://www.hughhewitt.townhall.com/http://www.larison.orghttp://http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneblog/home.htmhttp://http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/http://anglosphere.com/weblog/http://http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=br_ss_hs/103-3815938-6263000?search-alias=aps&keywords=albion%2527s%2520seedlingshttp://www.city-journal.org/http://www.manhattan-institute.org/http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald.htmhttp://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/dalrymple.htmhttp://victorhanson.com/http://isteve.comhttp://marccooper.com/http://danepstein.com/http://www.wildbirdcenter.com/stores/wclhttp://www.jonathansegal.com/index.htmhttp://phoebesphotos.blogspot.com/?http://danielaphant.blogspot.com/http://www.wifebear.blogspot.comhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0192835505/ref=pd_rhf_p_3/103-3815938-6263000?no=%252A&s=books&v=glance&n=283155http://www.tvheaven.ca/rumpole.htmhttp://illustriousscribbles.blogspot.com/shapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1shapeimage_7_link_2shapeimage_7_link_3shapeimage_7_link_4shapeimage_7_link_5shapeimage_7_link_6shapeimage_7_link_7shapeimage_7_link_8shapeimage_7_link_9shapeimage_7_link_10shapeimage_7_link_11shapeimage_7_link_12shapeimage_7_link_13shapeimage_7_link_14shapeimage_7_link_15shapeimage_7_link_16shapeimage_7_link_17shapeimage_7_link_18shapeimage_7_link_19shapeimage_7_link_20shapeimage_7_link_21shapeimage_7_link_22shapeimage_7_link_23shapeimage_7_link_24shapeimage_7_link_25shapeimage_7_link_26shapeimage_7_link_27shapeimage_7_link_28shapeimage_7_link_29shapeimage_7_link_30shapeimage_7_link_31shapeimage_7_link_32shapeimage_7_link_33shapeimage_7_link_34
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Law Legal Opinion Volokh Conspiracy--A UCLA Law Professor and his pals comment on free speech and a host of law-related issues Richard Radcliffe--A blog on law, life and religion by a thoughtful California lawyer Dave Kopel--A smart Colorado lawyer writes about the Second Amendment and many other issues Federalist Society--Much maligned by the left during the confirmation hearings, this group is the intellectual center of the “counter-revolution” against conventional legal wisdom of the left Pacific Legal Foundation--A California nonprofit focused property rights and other issues National Review Online’s Bench Memos--A blog focused on confirmation hearings and the judiciary LawBiz Legal Business Site--Blog--site and blog of a business consultant for lawyers Rutherford Institute--Another nonprofit law firm with a First Amendment orientation. Not the ACLU, or their even more certifiable Southern California branch. The blogger here specializes in bashing the ACLU The Becker-Posner Blog--One of our smartest federal judges and a noted economist dialogue on public policy; they think like economists, and they’re really smart Legal Information California Lawyer Lookup--Find the State Bar disciplinary status and official address of every California lawyer California Contractor Lookup--Find any licensed California contractor California Corporate Lookup--Secretary of State listings for all corporations, limited partnerships, LLCs and LLPs authorized to do business in California Orange County Bar Association--Our local bar association; unlike the State Bar, into which all lawyers are dragooned, completely voluntary UCLA School of Law--I graduated from here; it’s a good place Cornell Legal Information Institute--You can find all kinds of information, including Supreme Court opinions, if you can figure out their indexing system Findlaw Public Information--A commercial site with much useful information, including free legal opinions from many courts Courts California Courts--Portal for all California courts, especially the Supremes and Courts of Appeal; find the status of any case and all recent opinions, published and unpublished Orange County Superior Riverside Superior Los Angeles Superior Central District of California (Federal) Our Local Bankruptcy Court Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) JAMS-Endispute--mediation and arbitration service staffed mostly, but not exclusively, by retired judges Judicate West--a competitor of JAMS American Arbitration Association--The “original” home of arbitration; often mentioned by name in contracts with arbitration clauses Inland Valleys Arbitration and Mediation (IVAMS)--Private mediation services in the Inland Empire Paul Fisher Mediation--a talented private mediator who thinks and writes well about the process Gummint City Hall--Yes, you can fight it--call us Laguna Beach Unified School District--our four local schools County of Orange--the Democrats invented machine politics, but it’s alive and well in GOP country Cultural No Square Theater--Present the hysterical satire Lagunatics and also had the wisdom to give my daughter Katharine her first non-ensemble part Gallimaufry--A versatile local performing arts group Laguna Playhouse--Once a community theater group, now a fine professional theater; also my landlord Laguna Art Museum--Locally-oriented art museum; you’ll find a lot of California art history here The Laguna Beach Independent--The independently-owned local weekly. 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