Reading Tad Friend's New Yorker piece about protesting Berkeley students on the plane yesterday, I got to wondering: Why do college kids staging demonstrations piss me off so much these days? Am I stodgy and old, or is Revolution dead?

"You see African-Americans dealing with Hispanics on obtaining narcotics and weapons. We're seeing Hispanic gang members involved with the Eastern European criminal figures," said Robert W. Clark, acting special agent in charge of the criminal division of the Los Angeles field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Where they see opportunities to collaborate, they do."

One man's annual donation apparently made up 25% of the operating budget of the American Civil Liberties Union. And that guy, David Gelbaum, had a bad year. So... hope you didn't need to sue the government in 2010.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has put the "Jay Leno Show" back on the national radar for an oh-so-brief moment by using it to announce his pick for Lt. Governor.

Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race, and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown's communications director illegally recorded Brown's conversations with reporters, an act that made the conversations themselves subject to California's public records law. The L.A. Times and other papers published them, which makes one reporter very uncomfortable.

It's basically a given that the president's party will lose seats after his first midterm (except when 9/11 happens). So let's not get our hopes up. But Republicans really wanna try to prove that bit of conventional wisdom wrong.

This is a real-life, genuine letter from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Sate Assembly, announcing his intention to veto a harmless bill that would've financed the Port of San Francisco. As you can see, it spells out "Fuck You."

Carrie Prejean and her breasts are headed to court. The ex-beauty queen turned anti-gay activist is being sued by the organizers of the Miss California USA pageant who say they paid for her boob job.

For a century now, the world has flocked to California's shores in search of that golden promise of no-questions-asked, no-eyebrows-raised, plastic surgery on demand. But thanks to one flailing Governor, the sun has now set on that dream.

Well! The guy who directed Independence Day thinks it's gonna fall off the coast first. This Guardian article suggests the more likely possibility: that they're going to go bankrupt. Guest starring Michael Pollan not eating food!

California's gay war continues! Almost a year after voters squashed hundreds of homo dreams, the group Love Honor Cherish filed a measure yesterday to put gay marriage back on the ballot. That may not be the best idea.

[The edge of a giant forest fire that rages in Ventura County, California, yesterday. Image via Getty]

The American drug dream is dead. In the wake of Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole's respective deaths, California's Attorney General has signed off on a database that will track prescription drugs in the Golden State. What a downer. [Mercury-News]

If you thought Mark Sanford's love letters were embarrassing, check out this footage of Republican CA. Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall discussing his sexual trysts with a lobbyist. He actually uses the word "dripping." It's sick.

We already know that you cocaine will kill you dead, but at least we still have pot, right? Wrong! Well, that's according to the CDC, which tried, vainly, to link leafy greens to "foodborne" death.

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman wants to be California's next Governor. But, alas, she can't seem to find time for the good people of California and will be skipping an an upcoming event in Silicon Valley. Um, really?!

Southern California's on fire (again), and residents are told to evacuate — or burn trying.

What do you get when you combine the all-too-apathetic and under-informed citizenry of California with the all-too-narcissistic user base of Twitter? Truly terrible questions, for the state's governor.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has us direly concerned about the future of California. Set aside the Republican's policies, and turn your attention to the growing cache of weaponry he keeps right there in the governor's office.