Do you remember the uniform distribution from your elementary statistics
class? That's how political opinion in CA is distributed. They will
vote on an almost random basis -- for propositions that are antagonistic
on the same ballot, or for oppositional figures in adjacent elections.
California is almost an archetype of the feckless electorate, the Bill
Clinton of the polity and the poster child for the anti-democratic
urge. The ruling emotion is cynicism and the dominant ideology is
fantasy. The inmates are truly the masters of the asylum. It will take
the Terminator -- NOT Arnold S., but the Terminator himself -- to impact
the chaotic mind-set on the Left Coast.

California is as strange to mist US citizens as it is to foreugners. =
There are normal pockets of life here and there among all the weirdness, =
but for the most part, California is a place unto itslef. Maybe a =
nihilistic reaction to knwoing that they could all be under water any =
day? Ir that their desert property could become seashore?

--=20
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein