It’s like a veto, but with a half-cryptic message! Schwarzenegger’s office responds that this is just a “weird coincidence,” kind of like that time when foreign actor Arnold Schwarzenegger somehow became Governor of California. And yet! The bill he was rejecting in this letter was one dealing with financing for San Francisco ports, sponsored by San Francisco assemblyman Tommy Ammiano, who apparently shouted “kiss my gay ass” at the governor at an event earlier this month. Meanwhile, California is still broke. [SF Chronicle]

That Barack Obama, so articulate and clean and Harvard-y …. yet, did you know he was of African descent? This sort of slipped by during that whole two-year presidential campaign, but “OWN THE IDIOT CABLE-NEWS CYCLE” webzine The Politico has some “fresh” gossip and it goes a little bit like this: The Black People, in this country, it’s almost as if they have their own “slang,” comprised of dual-meaning words and phrases used to undermine White America. And Obama, he is hep to this particular jive! MORE »