D-Day here.  It happens to be my blogiversary today, and I’m running a little fundraiser this week.  So come by and drop a few coins in the bucket if you can.  OK, on to the links…

• UPDATE by Brian: I’m going to be appearing on the Your Call Radio Show Tomorrow at 11 AM on KALW 91.7 in SF to talk about the special election and the budget.  You can listen online here or download it later here.

• I don’t think I can do better than this headline: “Georges Marciano is rich, so of course he wants to be Governor.”  It gets better from there, actually; he hasn’t voted in a decade, has no position on the special election, and thinks “A political independent untethered to the usual party schisms is, he argued, the solution to the state’s perennial financial mess,” which is what we’re told we have now.  I think Alan Keyes could beat this guy.

• One bright spot in our fiscal disaster is that economic stimulus funds continue to roll into the state.  The latest consists of $3.1 billion in school funding, which State Superintendent Jack O’Connell says will go to save teachers from layoffs but also toward “education reform.”  I’d certainly like to see that defined more, but clearly the Obama Administration falls on the reform end of the schism inside the party.  From this article I’d say that O’Connell is trying to straddle the divide.

• The Fresno Bee thinks Obama is being stingy when it comes to water funding for the Central Valley.  They make a compelling argument.

• Following in the footsteps of fellow losing candidate John McCain, Chuck DeVore has been sued by a musician for using his songs without authorization.  Personally I come down more on the side of openness in this debate, as long as the artists are rewarded materially.  But picking an irrelevant fight with Don Henley isn’t a road to victory, either.

• More fallout from the teabagging hate rallies – a San Mateo group used a Star of David with the caption, “Uncle Sam Reminds You: KEEP PAYING TAXES. The ongoing extermination of Palestinian Children Can’t be Done Without Your Help.”  It’s a class message.