Californication :: no gays, no corpses ... *in that order*

So, we were in the kitchen making "cwaffee" and having a xenophobic discussion (drenched in irony, but with a kernel of sincerity at the bottom -- *some* Americans *can* be annoyingly introspective from time to time, no?).

Becks came in to tell us that Arnold Schwarzenegger had outlawed necrophilia in California -- ah well, said I, that's all right then, I take back everything I've ever said about annoying, ignorant Americans, they're obviously addressing the root problem so everything's OK.

Addressing it from the ground up, said Becks. Or from six feet under the ground, she continued to much guffawing.

We went on to recall that top of Arnie's to-do list when he *became* governor was to re-outlaw gay marriages. Which we thought was a great shame, and wondered why he would do such a thing (other than to fawn to America's frightening far right). Could he, we wondered, be nervous that a member of his reportedly large gay following would sidle up and marry him without so much as a by-your-leave? Best outlaw the whole business just in case.

Und now that I have, thought Arnie, scratching his head absent-mindedly, is there anything else I was going to sort out? -Uh, doing it with dead people is kind of a hot potato, Governor. Ach, ja. Make illegal also.

Arnold Schwarzenegger :: a man more repulsed by gay marriage than by necrophilia?