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Tuesday was a bad day and I needed a jolt, so I tuned in to the president’s State of the Union speech. During the president’s six years in power, I’ve managed to condition myself to Pavlovian perfection; every time he opens his mouth, I erupt in a foamy fury of expletives that foul the air for miles around.
WILD AND IMPETUOUS: To steal somebody else’s line, fasten your seatbelts-it’s going to be a bumpy ride. That’s because Brooks Firestone has just taken over as chairman of the board for the county Board of Supervisors. Lurking beneath Firestone’s effervescently upper-crust and ebulliently enthusiastic exterior beats the angry heart of a hot-tempered wild man, who’s impetuous, impulsive, and impatient to boot. And did I mention thin-skinned? Whatever epidermis Firestone once had appears to have been scraped off years ago, and it definitely shows.
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, maybe the reverse is also true. Maybe we can get somewhere better-if not actually good-by riding the coattails of overweening egomania and shameless opportunism. I know it sounds unlikely, but no matter what, you gotta have hope. I say this having watched Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday night as he squinted nonstop for 24 minutes into a glorious future, delivering his much-heralded State of the State address to the California Legislature.
READ ‘EM AND WEEP: With so many famous people dying in recent weeks, it’s easy to see how Dustin Donica got lost in the shuffle. In the past 10 days alone, we’ve said goodbye to James-Mr. “Please, Please, Please”-Brown, former president (and the world’s most dangerous golfer) Gerald Ford, and Iraqi dictator and mass-murderer Saddam Hussein.
