Everything You Need to Know About California Politics

Jim Hahn, soon to be the ex-mayor, is among the most
gloriously breathtaking ciphers in the political history of the known
world. He was nearly an antigravitational force, formed from a rib that
the former governor Gray Davis broke off from his own body. (Gray Davis
was another natty, zombified politico in a long, distinguished gray line
of Walking Dead.) I think Jim Hahn had a father named Kenneth, who is
invariably described as a "giant" among politicos. It is always
played respectfully but is nonetheless bizarre. I have a dim memory of
the former Govs. Pat Brown and Jerry Brown, and while it would be a stretch,
you could lay a They Might Be Giants rap on them. But to lay it on the
Hahns, well: such men seem to exist in a netherworld, like characters
in a comic book written by osteopaths or periodontists or outsider artists
whose work will never surface to be catalogued, celebrated or exhibited,
except perhaps in the odd, blandly disjointed dreams people have while
resurfacing in recovery rooms after – the pun is inadvertent – elective
surgery.

Why isn’t there more writing like this in the MSM?

by Bruce Wagner from the
New York Times