"If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in."
-- H.L. Mencken, in a letter to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, on their return from working in Hollywood.
The 1927 quote came to mind tonight, as I watched the Honorable Governor Schwarzenegger give his State of the State speech, except that now, Sacramento has changed places with L.A.