OK, the previous (actually, tomorrow's--isn't the internet wonderful?--it allows posting in the future...) post is probably my last before exploring the wilds of northern Wisconsin and Michigan for the first time since my college days, in the most beautiful season of all--the fall. But I just wanted to note:

Isn't Arianna, who just dropped out of the race because she is appalled by the thought of Governor Scharznegger to the point that she's now supporting Grayout Davis, whom she's been running against for months, the same Arianna who has never polled more than the margin of error so who cares to whom her votes go (most likely the socialist Camera)? Is that the Arianna who a little over three years ago thought that Warren Beatty would be a great president? Is that the Arianna we're talking about?

And if so, why should we care whether the loon is in or out?

California is a lot cause regardless of who gets in. A Republican won't last long in this state. I almost wish the Greens would usurp the gov't at every level and just get it over with.

She was an element of color in our circus.
That's all.

Every day, in every way, there's another reason to be happy not to live in California.

Maybe Disney can just make another one of those cute simulacrums. If they program it to stand up, smile, and recite vacuous nonsense, odds are the Republicans would run the thing instead of Arnold, notwithstanding the marginal difference between the two.

Insofar as some votes may go to Cruz now that she's out, I'm sad to see her go. It almost certainly is going to be Cruz or Arnie, and I sure don't want Cruz.

Arnie may not be able to get much done with the Demo led legislature, but that would be better than Grue Davis or Cruz, who appear to be completely clueless about economics (Cruz wants price controls on gasoline, but rails against oil drilling ... yeesh). Arnie, meanwhile, admitted to reading and liking Friedman's "Free to Choose" which would annoy an ultra left winger like Arianna.

Here in Cahleefohrneea we are proud that everyone, loon and non-loon alike, is able to be heard. And ridiculed.