From John "Thumb" Fund's Political Diary: "All Ely Dahan wanted was a brief conversation with California's Gov. Gray Davis of California about an exciting article by a Nobel Prize winner that had just appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Dahan, a UCLA business professor, thought the article had valuable insights into California's electricity problems. What he got instead was a highly agitated governor ignoring the policy points, cursing the Journal as 'f---ing a--h---s,' and declaring: 'They don't see the world realistically.' End of conversation."

Governor Davis's powers of observation have never been more astute. I wonder if he called Fund a "c----dly, a-----e little pr--k" as well.