{"id":294,"date":"2005-05-23T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/23\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cali"},"modified":"2005-05-23T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T01:58:04","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-california-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/23\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-california-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need to Know About California Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Why isn’t there more writing like this in the MSM?<\/em><\/p>\n

by Bruce Wagner from the
\n New York Times<\/tr>\n<\/td>\n<\/table>\n

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