Michael Fox
- Location
- Orange County, California, USA
- Company
- Fox Barker Communications
- Bio
- Michael Fox has a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.
He is a partner in Fox Barker Communications, which provides expert public relations, media and communications support to progressive candidates and causes.
His legal career has included clerking for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, working for the National Labor Relations Board and the United Steelworkers Union, and arguing numerous cases before federal and state appellate courts.
He has also published works on Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and French avant garde drama, taught acting, drama and literature, and directed more than 50 plays. He is Artistic Director of Moving Target Theatre and has received an AFL-CIO Award for Meritorious Service for Commitment to Human Rights.
He is also a member of the Executive Board of the Democratic Party of California.
Michael is married and has one son, one dog, two cats, and five guitars.
He is currently directing the play "In Darfur" by Winter Miller.
MY RECENT POSTS
- My Kenyan Birth Certificate --
Revealed!
August 05, 2009 06:25PM - Auto Dealers: No More Cash for
(Political) Clunkers
August 03, 2009 04:49PM - Across America's Racial
Divide: Michael, Rest in Peace
July 07, 2009 02:15PM - Is Sarah Palin Coming to Your
Neighborhood?
July 06, 2009 06:57PM - Sarah Palin Declares Her
Independence
July 04, 2009 12:27PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “From the AP (July 5)
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
didn't wait
long to give
some…”
July 05, 2009 12:24PM - “Cutting legislative
salaries will move the
California budget
an iota
toward resol…”
July 03, 2009 01:16PM - “Thanks to all who read,
commented and
rated!
Thanks for the
lively
discussion!
Than̷
0;”
June 23, 2009 09:14PM - “badgolf: Although Reagan
was not governor when Prop
13
passed, his support for
i…”
June 23, 2009 05:22PM - “badgolfer: Prop 13
passed because the state's
Republicans
adopted (and
co-opted)…”
June 23, 2009 03:46PM
Republican crocodile tears flowed this weekend in Orange County as a group of city officials called F.I.S.T. – “Fight Insane State Theft” – comprised of 14 Orange County mayors and 42 city council members, nearly all of them Republicans - protested Republican Gov… Read full post »
The Orange County Transportation Corridor Agencies, dominated by local Republican politicians such as Jerry Amante ("Toll Road Jerry") of Tustin and Orange County Supervisors Pat Bates and Chris Norby, has announced that tolls on the 73, 241, 261, and 133 toll roads will go up by 25 ce
“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very
first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed
them.”
Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity
You might think that Orange County’s Republican elected officials would be caught between a rock and ha… Read full post »
I attended a debate on presidential power at Chapman University Law School yesterday.
In retrospect, the event should more properly have been called “The Trial of John Yoo.”
And strikingly, it was Yoo who cast himself in the role of defendant.
The debate was titled "Pre… Read full post »
Democrats are responding to the growing nationwide phenomena of anti-tax “tea parties” protests by mocking them and by pointing out that they are prompted and run by right-wing organizations.
Neither response is a winning political strategy.
It is pure political stupidity --… Read full post »
In 1998, the Iowa legislature, capitulating to a well-funded national campaign against gay marriage, amended the state’s marriage statute to define marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
Today, in a stunning, courageous, and powerfully written decision, the Iowa Supre… Read full post »
O my Lord
What a morning,
O my Lord,
What a feeling,
When Jack Johnson
Turned Jim Jeffries'
Snow-white face
to the ceiling.
Adaptation of the spiritual "My Lord, What
a Morning" by William Waring Cuney, 1910.
While I’m skeptical about their motives, I applaud the efforts of Senator John McCain (R… Read full post »
Academics and intellectuals – and college professors in particular – are often thought of as living in an Ivory Tower – dispassionate, disconnected, and aloof from the everyday world.
And, for the most part, this reputation is deserved, especially in America, where we have oft… Read full post »
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
-- Alfred Tennyson, The Charge of
the Light Brigade.
Like the Russians did to the British at B… Read full post »
If you’re happy that Rush Limbaugh has been giving headaches to Republican leaders trying to find a popular political stance for their shrinking party, you’ll be thrilled to hear about the migraines that a conservative-libertarian talk radio duo named John and Ken are giving to the leader… Read full post »
The same sex marriage Prop 8 case will likely be decided by the California Supreme Court on an issue that will never be directly addressed by either the lawyers or the Court.
The primary legal issue at Thursday's hearing before the California Supreme Court on Prop 8 is the narrow and extremely… Read full post »
Jews have long been associated with comedy, and specifically with the form of comic storytelling called jokes.
There are a lot of theories about why people, and Jews in particular, tell jokes.
Henri Bergson believed that joke telling is a form of social control, in which the victim is made… Read full post »
There’s a gunfight brewing in Orange County, California, that would make a great John Wayne movie.
But the plot of the movie depends on your political perspective and your view on gun control.
Here’s plot number one:
In a corrupt town run by a few rich families, a crooked sheriff… Read full post »
As Americans are being forced to choose between buying food for their children or keeping their pets, or between paying for pet food or for their utilities bills, the economic crisis means death for thousands -- perhaps millions -- of abandoned dogs and cats
And as the foreclosure crisis spreads and… Read full post »
During the presidential election campaign, even Barack Obama’s most severe detractors conceded that he was smart, politically savvy, and had put together a team of brilliant advisors and managers.
Everyone expected that President Obama would carry the cool professionalism and political ac… Read full post »
It appears that New York Governor David Paterson is going to select Kirsten Gillibrand, a second term member of Congress from the 20th Congressional District, to take Hillary Clinton’s place in the U.S. Senate.
If he does so, it’ll be a great choice.
Gillibrand is young (born in December… Read full post »
Today on Los Angeles’ progressive talk radio station KTLA 1150, substitute host Johnny Wendell blasted Barack Obama’s selection of Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General of the United States. In the course of his rant, which included attacking Dr. Gupta for his presence on CNN and for… Read full post »
Rush Limbaugh, of all people, has offered renewed hope to progressives, such as Frank Rich, Tim Carpenter and others, who are nervous about the centrism of Barack Obama’s cabinet picks.
According to Limbaugh, Obama’s centrist cabinet selections are merely a smoke screen for his plans to… Read full post »
It's time for a new Mormon revelation.
The decision by the leadership of the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or the LDS Church) to ask its members to fund California’s anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8 will prove to have been a very bad idea – for the… Read full post »
Obama in Disneyland
All photographs taken in Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure, Anaheim, California.
and
Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s recent statement that she looks forward to being elected vice president so she can be "in charge of the senate" has mostly generated laughter rather than outrage.
Palin was asked by Colorado third-grader Brandon Garcia “What does the vice pr
… Read full post »When I was child, my father, a World War II Navy veteran, taught me the story of the four chaplains of the USAT Dorchester.
I thought of the four chaplains when I listened to former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell explain why he endorsed Barack Obama for President of
… Read full post »The Great Schlep video is getting a lot of publicity and has been seen by over two million viewers. Produced by a group called the Jewish Council for Education and Research, which also runs a website called JewsVote.org, the video stars comedienne Sarah Silverman and aims to recruit young… Read full post »
Sarah Palin has a new problem with Jewish voters.
I’ve written before about the appearance of Jews for Jesus leader David Brickner at Palin’s Wasilla Bible Church and how on August 17, 2008, with Palin in the audience, Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s… Read full post »
News was made at the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin last night, but few noticed it, and no one has yet analyzed its far reaching and frightening implications.
The news came when the discussion turned unexpectedly to the powers of the vice presidency.
Moderator Gwen Ifill n… Read full post »
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