Authorities say that the recent outbreak of California wildfires started in the cooking area of an illegal marijuana farm run by Mexican drug lords. The "La Brea fire" has already burned 75,000 acres in Santa Barbara County. [LA Times]

Are you a gay Californian looking to get married? You could do it right now! To someone of the opposite sex. But if you want to get gay married, you will have to wait until activists get their shit together.

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a life-long piece of work, is going to spend the August congressional recess surfing with Barney Frank. We're guessing it'll be weird?

[The U.S.-Mexico border near Campo, Calif., last night during border patrol operations in the wake of the fatal shooting last week of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. The lights of Tijuana can be seen in the distance; pic via Getty]

Last year, a well-funded, well-coordinated campaign to ban gay marriage in California won by a slim margin, partly because opponents forgot to organize and campaign until after the vote. Now they are not going to bother trying again next year.

[A Californian body surfer rides a big one. From BodySurf, a great site that collects pictures of people riding waves. Their third collection is up now. You should take a look.]

The Way We Live Now: Like champions. In tough times, it's all about priorities. And that priority is winning the Game of Life. Or—failing that—the Game of Golf.

The attorney for Carrie Prejean, disgraced pageant broad and the most wind-maligned human in world history, is claiming that she's the victim of an evil plot by dastardly pageant officials who want to destroy her, and is threatening a lawsuit.

After a female porn actress tested positive for HIV this week, health officials in LA disclosed a bunch of other previously unreported HIV cases in porn, and now people are getting vaguely freaked out.

There are now 600 medical marijuana dispensaries operating in Los Angeles, thanks to a legal loophole. Thanks, The Recession and Attorney General Holder and, most of all, incompetent LA City Council legal staff! This procedural goof's for you, Peter Tosh.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was a guest on Jay Leno's show last night and Glenn Beck, Fox News' resident Barnumesque dildo, just couldn't pass up the opportunity to make fun of the manner in which the California Governor speaks, and even managed to do so quite horribly.

Laura Lucero of Los Angeles marches in a pro-gay marriage rally in Hollywood last night after the California Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8, meaning that gay people still can't get married there. But the 18,000 couples who were hitched between last May (when the court ruled to legalize gay marriage) and November (when "progressive" California voters said same-sex marriage is icky) can stay married.

Well this is certainly a ripe little gossip story—-Remember Carrie Prejean, disgraced anti-gay marriage pageant broad and perhaps the most wind-maligned person in all of human history? Well, Star is claiming that Prejean's mother is a SECRET LESBIAN!

The Way We Live Now: Sick of it all. You work and work to stay positive and then one day you come across some superrich asshole whose yacht's decorated in endangered animal skins. Screw it.

Santa Barbara is on fire! People are losing their homes! Families are being separated and firefighters are risking everything to save lives! Also some assholes are throwing a pool party.

Barack Obama has already sent subtle signals that the Feds have no interest in prosecuting medical marijuana distributors. Now Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to "study" legalizing marijuana in California. Weed money is too good to resist!

Wildfires are raging in California again — this time near Santa Barbara where 5,000 homes have been evacuated — producing the apocalyptic imagery to fit our dreary mood. Pic via Getty.

Friday we wondered: is Deborah Perez, who claims her dad was the Zodiac Killer, some sort of wacko? Now it appears the answer is "Yes, a big one."

"I am not a wacko," said Deborah Perez, who yesterday called a news conference to announce that her dad was the Zodiac Killer. But circumstantial evidence proves she is, at minimum, surrounded by wackos.