LOSING MUSCLE
Do Salt 'n Pepa still want a man with a body like Arnold (with a Denzel face)?
The Governator's politcal muscle is rapidly withering into the atrophied flab of what he would unendearingly refer to as a girlie-man.
Latest polls indicate that only 39% of Californians are inclined to vote for Schwarzenegger again, down from 56% just four months ago.
Apparently, 17% of Californians just woke up from a post-recall drunken stupor and realized, despite a Hummer-size hangover, that maybe it wasn't such a smart idea to believe that the star of Jingle All The Way could repair all of California's problems.
Let's hope Golden State voters' coldness towards Governor Freeze continues when we have to vote on his toxic special-election November initiatives, which if we are coked out enough to approve them, will cap critical state spending, strip lawmakers of important powers, curb union rights' of political expression, and make it harder for public school teachers to get tenure.
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In other political news:
- Given that Wal-Mart heir John Walton, the 11th richest man in the world, just died in a plane crash, it may seem crass to attack Wal-Mart at this time. But given that the megacrap-chain never stops executing their blueprints for evil, I can live with myself by sharing their latest act of reactionary activism: Wal-Mart is refusing to carry the morning-after pill -- Plan B -- in all its stores. Given its giant marketshare biceps, this ban effectively bars emergency contraception in hundreds of towns in rural America, meaning Wal-Mart may have more influence on reproductive rights than the Supreme Court.
- It's been a relatively good week for gay rights. Spain just joined the lonely duo of the Netherlands and Belgium by becoming the third country to legalize gay marriage on a nationwide basis. Canada's House of Commons just paved the way for Canada to become the fourth country. For those weak in math, that means the number of countries that have legalized gay marriage just doubled in one week. Less significantly, the California Supreme Court let stand the new state law that grants registered domestic partners most of the same rights available to married couples. Unfortunately, 99% of the gay and lesbians in the world, lacking legal equality, aren't reaping the benefits of any good news. Even worse, they just switched to Geico, but didn't save a bunch of money on their car insurance.
- Suddenly, the Republican Party likes black people.
- Mexico also loves black people (who are apparently "endearingly" referred to as "Morenitos," which loosely translates to "darkies"), but prefers the outdated caricatures of them on their national stamps.
- Finally, nobody should ever talk to a reporter from Time Magazine again.
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