Cannibals and Cannabis

California was not rocked by Tuesday's elections as much as the rest of the nation. The Golden State opted for staid old liberals over apparently qualified and capable business women (assuming that is that leftists like Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown could ever be called "staid"). But in a surprise move where much of the state seems stoned on something, the voters of California did not vote to decriminalize marijuana for recreational use. You would have thought the way that they voted in gubernatorial and US Senate elections that they were high as kites already. Instead in a state mired in debt, trapped by the foreclosure crisis, and riven with social problems and crime, the people will be left to cry in their beer rather than toking up as the great millennial earthquake separates that state from the saner parts of the nation. But then again since when did legality ever stop die-hard Californians from doing anything?