[edit: style kinda ganked from YAD, now that i think about it]
Californians! You are HORRIBLY LACKING IN BRAINMEAT.
The triumph of celebrity over cerebelli(a?) continues. Remember when y’all elected this steroid-sucking, cigar-fellating, GOP-whoring, porn-starring barbarian? I figured, ‘Okay, this state’s fuckin’ high.’
But, shit, turns out there are certain things we left-coasters can’t stand:
Governor […]

Hear that? That’s the sound of three million people going “Shit, not again…”
Pursuit Suspect Beaten in Controversial Use of Force
LOS ANGELES — Police were investigating officers’ use of force Wednesday during the arrest of an unarmed black man who led them on a chase after allegedly being spotted driving a stolen car.
Dude runs, stops, […]

Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W Bush in July. The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing “services in the community, rather than institutions,” according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom […]

Sacramento Bee, 6/1/04:
WASHINGTON - Test subjects can’t see the invisible beam from the Pentagon’s new, Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces for more than three seconds.People who volunteered to stand in front of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire. When they stepped […]

NYT, 6/2/04:
Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader and former ally of the Bush administration, disclosed to an Iranian official that the United States had broken the secret communications code of Iran’s intelligence service, betraying one of Washington’s most valuable sources of information about Iran, according to United States intelligence officials.
Huh? Isn’t he, like, a superpatriotical […]