Guest Host: Kurt Schlichter

Tonight on the Stage Right Show our favorite ugly hippie bashing trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter guest hosts for Larry O'Connor. Kurt Schlichter makes his living as a civil trial lawyer and a partner at Schlichter & Shonack, LLP, in Manhattan Beach, California. He is also a former stand-up comic and comedy writer who got his start in the 80’s reviewing bad movies for the U.C. San Diego student humor paper The Koala while simultaneously editing The California Review, the campus’s right-wing opinion journal. After college, Kurt enlisted in the Army and was commissioned a lieutenant through Fort Benning’s infamous Officer Candidate School. He earned his jump wings from the Army’s Airborne School and spent over 20 years in the Army on both active duty and in the National Guard, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and commanding the elite 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry (Reconnaissance-Surveillance-Target Acquisition). He served in both Operation Desert Storm and in Operation Enduring Freedom in Kosovo, as well as in several civilian support missions from the Los Angeles riots of 1992 to the San Diego fires of 2007. Kurt writes frequently on cultural, political, legal and military issues. His freelance work has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, The San Francisco Examiner, and elsewhere, though it is unlikely any of them would admit it. He is one of the handful of people in the world who have both graduated from the Army's Command & General Staff College and had some low budget producers option his terrible, terrible zombie movie script.