Dividing California could have dire repercussions. Are there ten local politicians in Delaware or Rhode Island who wouldn't be glad to become a repetitive in the United States Senate? If a state is so small that it gets only one Congressional district doesn't it make sense to divide it into six smaller states so that the same geographical area will suddenly have six people in Congress?
The media in New York can't completely ignore this developing political story because the conservative media owners will want to stifle innovation at the git-go and sending a top notch reporter to cover the bowl of granola aspect of the story will be as good as giving them a big cash Christmas bonus.
People in flyover country (such as Concordia Kansas) love the jokes that make fun of California such as: Why is Los Angeles like a bowl of granola? (It's all nuts, fruits, andf flakes!)
Since California would (most likely) fit into the Southwest corner of the W. A. (AKA Western Australia), it might be best to quash this break it into smaller pieces political trend right here and now before the voters in Kalgoorlie start to get some strange ideas from America.
[Note from the photo editor: we dug into the archives to find some photos from the Venice Beach area and some tourist type pictures from Frisco to illustrate the point that both areas are far apart physically and (upon closer inspection) politically too.]
William Hjortsberg has written: "The future remains an unwritten book, its cryptic pages blank, and no crystal ball wizard, palm reader or Tarot deck manipulator can accurately provide a sneak preview of what's coming in the next chapter."
The disk jockey will play the Doors "L. A. Woman," the Jefferson Airplane's "Plastic Fantastic Lover," and the CCR (from "near" Berkeley) song, "Run Through the Jungle." We have to go see where the Buffalo Springfield is playing this weekend. Have a "Point Break" type week.
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