Meg Whitman Campaign Falters As Budget Deficit Increases Again As Legislature Turns Into-Part Time Zombies, People Believe In Miracles But Not UFOs

Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor is not going well.   First, her two campaign advisers, Steve Schmidt and Adam Mendelsohn, quit only weeks after they were hired. [PolitickerCA]  Now, Whitman lost an attempt to force the owners of “meg2010.com” and “megwhitman2010.com” to turn the names over to her.   Apparently, the name “Meg Whitman” is too common.  [Out-Law]

Since the state legislature is so useless are we better off turning legislating into a part-time job/hobby and forcing our lawmakers to get day jobs like the rest of us?  [Fresno Bee]

But maybe it’s hard for them to get day jobs since they’ve turned into zombies.  Hmmm…you’d think zombie legislators would be cool! Turns out that they’re not. [George Skelton/L.A. Times]

By now you know that Yahoo laid off 1,500 people yesterday mostly from California offices.  Wanna read remarkably the cold layoff-memo CEO Jerry Yang sent to his employees?  Of course you do. [Valleywag]

75% of Americans believe in miracles, 70% believe in the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ, but only 36% believe in UFOs. Why is everyone hating on UFOs?  [Harris Interactive]

Oh and the California budget deficit is now predicted to hit $41 billion by 2010. [LA Times]