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[ealgylden]

You know you've been spending too much time on fannish things when your immediate response to this is "Ahh! Sam! What are you doing?!" and it takes a while before it occurs to you, "Wait, I mean Rob. Rob! What are you doing?!"

Still, I can't think of a more fitting situation in which to make a fiction vs. reality slip like that. This whole California debacle could easily be blamed on untalented writers or pressure from the network, and I wouldn't blink. It would make so much sense.

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[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Aw, now I feel bad for picking on CA. Just chalk it up to a lifetime divided between being bitter at NYC for being a cancer on the rest of the state and being bitter at MA taxes. *g*

I've always wanted to experience an earthquake, just once. We have them (thank you, Quebec), but they're always little and I never seem to be awake at the time. No tornadoes, hurricanes, or mudslides either. Snow, though, snow we have. In immense quantities. And ice. And Canadians (kidding).

Albany generally seems to restrict itself to criminals as politicians rather than crazies and colorful people, so it's not half so interesting to watch. In all seriousness, though, I find this whole situation a bit boggling. I mean, I know Davis isn't very popular, but how is spending all this money on a recall rather than waiting for his term to be up and voting him out going to help anything? I don't get it. Maybe it makes more sense if one is a billionaire Republican?

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

I do so love earthquakes. Northridge was really the only destructive one in the past few decades and I remember that being a blast. Except for, you know, the death and destruction part. It's kind of like being on a rollercoaster ride, except without the annoying feeling of falling. And snow for me is like a pretty fantasy that I know I can drive a couple hours to, but really only happens to other people.

Heh. Well, considering about 40% of Democrats polled want Davis gone, I don't think you need to be a billionaire Republican to understand it. The recall, as of right now, looks like it's gonna cost somewhere in the vicinity of 70 million dollars. Davis wastes that in, like, a day. You don't have to live here to understand what a crook the man is, but I think you do have to live here to understand how fed up Californians are with him and his wicked ways. We've seen spending go through the roof, only outdistanced by our taxes, businesses packing up every day, every single public service deteriorating to the point of uselessness, etc., etc., all so the prison guard's union could get a 38% pay increase. Of course, that was only so they would contribute heavily to Davis' campaign. And then to find out he lied about CA's financial problems before the election and then 'corrected' himself afterwards? You'd be amazed how angry people here are.

And for a damn good reason, too.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Well, I'm convinced. Hopefully this whole mess will work out positively, then. Doesn't sounds as though things could get much worse (though I suppose they could. Just look at Louisiana).

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

And that's just the tip of the iceberg (to use quite the appropriate metaphor). But yes, hopefully everything will work out. We shall see.