Nasty cops 
 Nasty communists aka red scum 
 Nasty gay men aka queers, faggots, etc 
 Nasty black people aka spooks, smokes, etc 
 Nasty women 
 Nasty mobsters 
 Nasty Jews who are also often nasty commies and faggots 
 Nasty Mexicans 
 Nasty wives 
 Nasty smackheads 
 Nasty sex 
 Nasty language 
 Nasty lives 
 Oh and also nasty dogs 
 If you can't take the special oxyacetylene James Ellroy heat you better get out of the James Ellroy kitchen of hell so that's what I'm doing, skedaddling back to wimpsville to bathe my throbbing brow and read a Penelope Fitzgerald novel where nothing happens except maybe some one chips a tea cup.