Feelin' California

Verbal Jazz has a few friends who have left the cold winters of the New England region for the
warmer climes of California. All I have to say to them today is "Ha-Ha!" in my best Nelson
voice (Nelson is the bully on "The Simpsons"). Arnold's serial groping is really not much of an
issue with me, I figure if the personal peccadilloes of one William Clinton were no one's
business then the unwanted advances of the newly minted Austrian Governor were best left to
his Kennedy clan wife to sort out.

Verbal Jazz is ready to hatch a conspiracy theory that goes something like this: the "Governator"
actually becomes a disincentive for migration to California. In other words, the powers that be
saw to it that Arnold won in order to reduce the population. I do not for a moment actually
believe this, but it is nice to harbor conspiracy theories, they are good for the soul.

Now California will have a governor that no one can truly take seriously, is a Republican that
drives conservatives crazy with his wacky, socially liberal views, and will give press conferences
that are almost as unlistenable as the President.

Thankfully, we will no longer have to endure those circus analogies.

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