The hills of Los Angeles are burning

This just in. The State of California has officially changed its name to State of Emergency.*

*I like to make obscure pop culture references and then not explain them. Get over it.

Two days ago, Californians staged the world's largest earthquake drill. That’s a good idea, as our most populous state’s two most populous cities lie on our largest fault line. An earthquake leveled San Francisco in 1906. And now, returning for a 2008 encore, fire. Is this serious, or are they just filming Smoke Jumpers?

Hollywood, of course, manufactures more problems for California. Why worry about California’s real problems when you can worry about a volcano wiping out L.A. or robot governors or robot aliens or replacement aliens?

My thought: if fundamentalists can blame other calamities on people they don’t like, I will blame the current wildfires on California’s passage of Prop 8.* It doesn’t make any more sense, but it sure does feel right.

*Enough hyperlinks for you?

In all seriousness, here’s hoping that firefighters manage to get all the fires under control without any injuries. They should consider moving to Kansas, where all they’re expected to do is rescue the occasional cat or put out the occasional insurance fire.