Links:

*  The SF Chronicle’s Chip Johnson takes a swing at the initiative system.

*  Another foreign boondoggle, more corporate cash to run his private jet. This time, it was over $300K for his trip to the Middle East.

*  5 students were arrested yesterday at the Capitol. They were there protesting the budget cuts.

*  Remember all that BS that we did for Race to the Top funds? Well, it looks like we didn’t even make the lists of finalists. Yay, the feds got us to jump through regressive hoops for free! Good job Arne Duncan!

* thereisnospoon and clammyc did an interview with Mickey Kaus, the radical centrist who wants to primary Barbara Boxer.