During my vacation (which is now, sadly, over), we took a quick drive into California. Despite myself, I found myself loving the area, especially San Diego. Lovely weather, beautiful scenery… I couldn’t help thinking that it wouldn’t be a bad place to live.

That’s probably true, but it would help a lot if California wasn’t full of Nanny-state ninnies who do ignorant things like ban outdoor smoking. I don’t like people who stand on the sidewalk and smoke, leaving a nice cloud of smoke for me to walk through when I go out to lunch. Those smokers should be ashamed of themselves. (Of course, the smoke is, at least, better than walking through puddles of spit, so smokeless tobacco is even worse!)

But, that doesn’t mean I think it should be illegal to smoke outdoors. Heck, I don’t even think it should be illegal to smoke indoors, provided the building owner is okay with it.

Anyway, I’m digressing here. California’s a beautiful place, but I’m not sure that being beautiful makes up for the idiots who run the governments there… or the idiots who vote for those governments.