See the update at the end of this post about Lindsay Lohan apparently spending three minutes in the Newport Beach rehab before resurfacing at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage late Thursday.

Lindsay Lohan is Newport Beach's now, bitches!

No, she's not here for the next 90 days to show off bikinis, nor shoot a movie, catch a rave or follow a band who has no interest in her.

The hot mess of an actress has checked into the Morningside Recovery drug rehab.

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Confession time: Like many in the media, I looked at Kevin E. Harris blowing himself up, having covered his Costa Mesa house in foil to prevent the government from reading his mind and writing the gubment was also behind the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson, John Lennon and everyone who perished in the the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as indicators the 52-year-old was . . . well . . . at the risk of speaking ill of the dead . . . somewhat off. But upon closer inspection of his 17,000-word essay, this reporter can categorically state Harris was onto something regarding the late Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield.

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The late Kevin E. Harris

Now that Kevin E. Harris has been exposed as a bomb maker who seems to have tried to lure Costa Mesa police officers and paramedics to his Mesa Verde home, where the 52-year-old later blew himself up, Sean Lear has a question for local law enforcement:

How come you laughed me off a few years ago when I identified Harris as a threat?

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Wendy Leece's marked up copy

As Gustavo's editorial assistant, I never have a shortage of angry calls and letters from the public complaining about our content that offended them one way or another. But it's not often that an elected official reaches out on the behalf of their constituents and complains for them. Yet that's exactly what Costa Mesa councilwoman Wendy Leece did in January.

You might remember Leece as the Know Nothing who supported former mayor Allan Mansoor's anti-Mexican pogroms in the city, or her recent reinvention as a champion of the city's public employees. This time,
Leece called about one particular story in our January 18 dead-tree issue--and, surprisingly, it was not our cover story with Klansmen on the cover.

Nope, she had a problem with Joel Beers' review of the hit play The Motherfucker with the Hat at South Coast Repertory.
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Not quite to the scale of the Boston Marathon explosions, a blast at the Costa Mesa home of a 52-year-old man police and paramedics had come to aid two hours earlier Sunday killed the resident, who it turned out had other bombs on the premises.

Not quite to the scale of Christopher Dorner's online manifesto, the bizarre ramblings of the late Kevin E. Harris were also posted on the Internet.

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See the update at the end of this post identifying the burned man and giving his condition.

ORIGINAL POST, MARCH 25, 10:13 A.M.: There's already a fake reality show (aren't they all?) called Burning Love (hilarious!) on Yahoo and the E! channel, so a fellow who walked into a Costa Mesa nail salon Sunday afternoon will have to come up with a different title for his personal love story.

Of course, he'll have plenty of time to think about a new one as he recovers in a hospital burn unit from injuries suffered after he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire for his estranged wife or girlfriend and other onlookers in Creative Nails & Spa at Bristol Street and Paularino Avenue.

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Add conservative political activists to the long list of judge, journalists and sane people who have now told Rancho Santa Margarita lawyer/dentist/real estate saleslady/Queen of the Birfers Orly Taitz to shut her pie hole.

The latest rebuke came at the CPAC convention near Washington, D.C. this weekend.

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Taitz

If Orly Taitz could speak now to U.S. District Court Judge Andrew J. Guilford, she'd say in her Zsa Zsa Gabor voice, "I did not lie, darling!" More »

Christopher Jordan Dorner's infamous manifesto identifies around 40 Southern California law enforcement officers he believes have wronged him. Indeed, those passages burn most of the rambling post's 6,000 words. But Dorner also cites films, TV shows, celebrities, athletes and newsmen he likes, including Anderson Cooper, who confirmed via Twitter Thursday that the triple-homicide suspect sent him a bullet hole-filled LAPD coin. Um . . . what?

See also:
Christopher Jordan Dorner Manhunt: "WE ARE AT WAR" (continually updated)
Christopher Dorner, Ex-Cop & Irvine Murder Suspect, Allegedly Declares War on LAPD in Manifesto Outling Department Corruption)
Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence Autopsies Show Engaged Couple Shot Multiple Times
Monica Quan, Titans Basketball Coach, and Fiance Keith Lawrence Found Shot to Death



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Anyone want to help lawyer/dentist/real estate saleslady/BSN Orly Taitz of Rancho Santa Margarita continue to clog courts across America with racist/partisan/unfounded/BSN litigation against the country's twice popularly elected president?

Well, then, you may be in luck.

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