"The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependence back into bondage."
Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler Circa 1787

Possible New Crappy California Laws for Davis to sign:

AB 1245, by John Laird. Prevents draft ballot measures from first going to the Attorney General, who currently cleans up illegal language before public distribution. Instead, measures will go on a website so we see every screw-up. The intent is to create chaos around measures so they'll fail at the polls.
AB 1309, by Jackie Goldberg. After a school district tears down houses to build a school, this allows a district to go tear down somebody else's house, somewhere else, to put up housing for those originally displaced.
AB 587, by Mark Ridley-Thomas. A box asking your skin color will now go on voter registration forms. It's voluntary---but expect a move next to make it required.
SB 796, by Joseph Dunn. Allows workers to seek fines of $200 each from firms who commit tiny labor violations. One code specifies a font size employee notices must be posted in. So 50 employees can now get $10,000 over improper fonts.
AB 231, by Darrell Steinberg. "Reforms" the food stamp program, which required that nobody own a fancy car if taxpayers were buying their food.
AB 205,the Homosexual Marriage Bill!!

and on and on and on....