giving chicago a run for its money

"the city that works" has always always held a certain irony for anyone in the windy city; well step aside chicago, in california unions and government officials have raised (or was the lowered?) the bar.

yes, a 10 billion dollar construction project is on hold because two different unions are fighting over who gets to unload some steel (from china nonetheless) off of a boat.

a mile square and all there

The Bou' would like to point out that Covina is not just a mile square and all there, it's a place where Californians dress as santa and shoot as many people as possible at a christmas party.

Now, say what you will about the suburbs of los angeles, but gun toting santas, well that's as Californian as it gets.

I majored in misspelling and minored in vandalism

You may remember Cyrus Yazdani from earlier KoC posts featuring the benefits of riding public transportation in The Angels - well, he's back in teh news. Yep. after some $300K in damage (all creativity subsidized by the public education system in California) Buket is out of jail after time served waiting for trial.

So much for having his name changed to Bukem.

They take all kinds in California

Sure you can claim Dock Ellis, the LSD popping no hitter pitching all star baseball player is from pittsburgh, but come on, that'd be missing the obvious.

just as soon as the acid wore of california gave him a big bear hug and said "welcome, brother"

Proof is that he died there yesterday.

Now, California's got Barry Bonds, so it's not all that surprising that it would take anyone willing to ruin the great american passtime with drugs - still mixing drug addled hippies and baseball is something only california could love

smugness as hell starts freezing

what happens when you want to rub california's awesome weather into everyone's face?

you include a news article that snow actually fell in a little corner of the city and then, to really rub it in, you include a link to the wikipedia page on snow in case no one is SF doesn't know what it is.

you do realize you bought a home in a desert right?

California has a long history of stealing water from other places, but this fine story highlights a rather extra Californian water story:

Developer builds houses in the desert. People buy them. People then figure out they just bought a house in the desert and that in the desert there is no water.

Just desserts? The Bou' sure thinks so, but then again the Bou' always had problems spelling desert and dessert.

great

starts with homeless people and then the next thing you now Los Angeles' shanty towns will be invading actual America.

a california sandra day o'connor and ruth bader ginzberg walk into a bar...

as if publishing porn isn't bad enough, it turns out that a "conservative" (that's California conservative in case you were praying for clarification) judge is emailing titty jokes to an apparently not so select list.

The Bou' wonders why he got left off the list.

what? they took away her troop leader status?

TRACY!!! The gateway to the central valley (the Bou' is not making up that name) - home to girl scout troop leaders that keep, by all appearances, slaves.

In case you get confused by all the ass sex in san francisco and those damned liberal hollywood types in los angeles, the central valley is the MORAL COMPASS of California - where Californians go to learn important life skills like how to sell cookies for money and how much to pay someone to steal their child, keep them chained to a wall and make them do all your chores.

when las vegas has to teach california about justice - you know you're screwed

Yep - the Bou's in a bit of disbelief.

California is now relying to Las Vegas to teach it about morality (It's noteworthy that Florida was not up to the task).

Lame? Absolutely.

But at least it came with this awesome picture!

reality TV turned up a notch - California style

where else can you watch a man throw himself into a a city bus that doesn't stop, people break into cars, drag races and bum fights in High Definition?

well, on the internets of california, duh!

Now, the Bou' is always amazed at little moving boxes of light - there's one sitting on his lap right now - but taking cinema verite to the next level, well, that takes it to a whole new level.

What the Bou' doesn't get is why anyone would move to the 'Loin...

bonus endorsement from the SF Comical: "one of the greatest at-work time-killers ever to pop up on your monitor"