He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

-Dante Alighieri, poet (1265-1321)

I am seriously concerned that our recent voter rebellion in California will make it impossible to help if asked, and to get help regardless of desperation.

People just voted No on everything as if doing so would make a point, a great gesture of voter defiance. I don’t think anybody read the ballots, let alone understood them. I’ve been to college and law school, and I found the texts obscure and badly written.

Not to put too fine a point on it, I think we the people of California have really peed in our chili this time.