Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Government is not show business.

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.