RN sometimes used bad language in private, but what Governor Schwarzenegger did recently was much worse. To get back at a legislator who had taunted him, he inserted an obscene acrostic into a veto message for one of the legislator’s bills. This act was not a sudden outburst behind closed doors: it was a deliberate and methodical effort to put a dirty word into the permanent public record. And just when we expect the governor and his staff to spend all their time thinking of ways to ease the state’s fiscal crisis, he had an aide take time out to carry out his “prank.” More here.