Recently I found myself at my state capitol, the home of our dearest Governator, in Sacramento. The building itself is lovely, it really is, a take on the actual capitol building where real bills are debated and budgets are actually passed. The building (built in 1864) was falling apart (apparently sometime in the 70's a genius senator decided "Hmmm I wonder if this 100 year old building meets the safety requirements..."), so they had to reinforce the entire thing, and strip most of its insides away. If your wondering what happened to the budget deficit, it cost 60 million dollars.
Anyway, as I was waiting for the tour to start (it was a fine tour but the guide had a deep loathing hatred for children, and yelled at all the classes on field trips we passed), I was sitting on a marble bench on a checkerboard floor, looking at the painfully partial murals across the walls (Native Americans happily labouring on a mission, Spanish priests blessing them, etc), I noticed one particularly uninteresting picture. It was pretty normal, until I realized that as the Native Americans were cheerfully waving to the Spanish, one man actually had his hand on the other guys butt. Right there, on the left panel on the far left. Now I don't have anything against any sexual preferences, I was just surprised that in a state capitol... with the way things are... a Republican governor...
Only in California folks, only in California.
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