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All the talk about the Governor race in California really kind of makes me wish I still lived there so I could participate. I think it's good from time to time to make a mockery of our political system just to remind us of some of it's flaws. I guess the official list of candidates will come out Wednesday, but the talk is it will be close to 200 people. That's going to be a ridiculous ballot. So far there's the ones you know about like Arnold, Larry Flynt, a porn starlett I've never heard of, Gary Coldman, and the guy that owns Cigarettes Cheaper (who is hoping to repeal the stringent 'no smoking' laws in California.)

But I found perhaps my favorite today - Georgy for Governor. She's getting some press on Slashdot for being a geek since she's a computer programmer and a computer science grad from UC Berkeley (and a hottie.) But she's getting national mainstream media attention for her merchendise - most notably the Georgy for Governor thong underwear. Although I'm a big fan of the I asked Georgy out T-Shirt. I might actually order one of those.

In the end this all has to be mostly satire, but she's quite serious about it and I do agree with many of her position statements (even if they aren't really things she could get done as Governor.) She is actually collecting donations, and a website like her's takes a lot of work to keep up. Also, go read her blog. I'm curious to see how many votes she gets come Oct 7.

I also browsed though the current list of cadidates and found a Kevin Smith on the list. But I'm almost certain it's a different Kevin Smith, as I haven't seen any news about that. Although Kevin does live in LA now.

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