As much as the rest of the country thinks we are hybrid-driving, granola-eating, yoga-compulsive lunatics, California actually bravely does lots of cool stuff first. We are pioneering stem-cell research and environmental agreements with China while remaining the world's fifth largest economy, and I for one think we are brilliant iconoclasts, not seitan-subsisting hippie trash. In ten years they will be tying cans to the back of a Prius to celebrate trans-sexual nuptials in Iowa. I can't wait to rub it in their faces. As Jello Biafra says- "California uber alles."