Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his bid for the California governorship, is going to strengthen his candidacy and mitigate his lack of experience by surrounding himself with smart, knowledgeable, experienced people – exactly the strategy that Dubya used, in his successful presidential bid. Fair ’nuff.

The question *I* have is, why can’t we elect a smart person that surrounds himself with smart, knowledgeable, experienced people??? Is there a little known election rule that says a candidate can’t have more than a certain amount of IQ points distributed amongst himself and his advisors?? Why do we have to elect idiots?

The thing that bothers me the most about the Chandra Levy case (aside from the fact that it is standard media carpet bombing of an issue where the big picture is lost in the day to day esotericies) is that way too much time is spent analyzing and obsessing over Gary Condit. According to the DC Police Department this case is still being considered a missing person’s case. This is not a criminal investigation. It is definitively incorrect to say that there are suspects in the case and until the DC police change their status, I really wish that people would lay off the daily fine-tooth analysis every time Gary Condit farts.

While it is fine (and expected) that the police will investigate all avenues in Chandra Levy’s disappearance, it is clear that "all avenues" don’t start and end with Gary Condit.