Ah, California...

Not long ago, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said (in the context of pushing her gun control bill, which failed) “All vets are mentally ill and government should prevent them from owning firearms”.  She didn't actually say those words, but that is how many understood her meaning.

Columnist Burt Prelutsky had this thought:

Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're Number One. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.

No other state even comes close.  Ouch.  What a sad statement that is...

Meanwhile, Down Under...

This beast, dubbed “SkyWhale”, is about to take flight.  Tim Blair says: “The perfect symbol of our capital city – a bloated, gaseous, multi-breasted monster feeding those who dwell in its poisonous shadow while leeching off the rest of us”.

Study it a bit, and try to imagine what the artist is trying to convey.

I have no idea.  None at all.  But I'm now newly worried about my friends who hail from the land down under...

Quote of the Day...

Said by my mom, upon reading that 78,000 people have volunteered for a one-way mission to Mars:

It's my fervent hope that all 78,000 that want to settle on Mars are politicians!

Oh, yes.  Let's certainly hope so.  And let's also hope that there isn't some galactic environmental protection agency that will punish us for polluting the now-pristine Mars...