Believe it or not …

… turns out, the hippies were right. Cool video.

So Long Sarah

By the time you read this, Sarah Palin will no longer be governor of Alaska. Today is her last full day in office, and I have a sneaky suspicion that there are only about 20 people at their computers in America today. Mostly shut-ins and guys with lots of cats. And me. … I’m going out for a walk by the sea in a little while, but at the moment it’s viva la siesta time at Uncle Squelch’s fortress of solitude.

Did I digress? Oh yes. Sarah Palin. I guess we won’t have that monumental whackjob to kick around anymore. She’s leaving public life for good. That may not be her plan, but let’s just hide and watch. She’s history, which is good because she sucks at geography. And polictical science.

idiots

The negotiated solution to the state’s projected $26-billion budget deficit — roughly $15 billion in spending cuts, and the rest mostly in raids on local government, problematic revenue and accounting tricks — was preordained by the May 19 special election. [LA Times]

Yep, we Californians really crapped in our mess kit with that one. That’s because we have no worldly clue what we’re doing. The people are not educated on the financial issues we were asked to vote on; we weren’t qualified to make those decisions. And it should not have been left to us. So what we wound up doing what voting No on increasing our state’s income and No on reducing its spending. What a bunch of ignorant asshats we are.

It should have been left to our representative government in Sacramento, except that, sadly, those idiots can’t agree on whether it’s good for the sun to rise.

It should be said that I did not vote with the majority in the May 19 election. I voted from a position of ignorance, sure, but not so much from bald stupidity.

“He who thinks he knows does not know. He who knows he does not know, knows.”

raise my taxes, you idiot!

The general shape and scope of the deal to shore up California’s hemorrhaging budget is beginning to emerge.

The proposal would reshape some aspects of government in California, significantly scaling back many services that have been offered to residents — particularly the elderly and the poor — for years.

Tens of thousands of seniors and children would lose access to healthcare, local governments would sacrifice several billion dollars in state assistance this year and thousands of convicted criminals could serve less time in state prison. Welfare checks would go to fewer residents, state workers would be forced to continue to take unpaid days off and new drilling for oil would be permitted off the Santa Barbara coast. [LA Times]

You know, I hadn’t posted anything to my supposedly anonymous political blog in a while, because I’ve been pretty busy and because the Obama administration hadn’t been giving me nearly as many reasons to post as did his ignominious predecessor. But I see now that I’m going to have to keep this space alive, for the benefit of our ridiculous guvernator.