In Prop 8-land, people are buzzing about this: The Rev. Rick Warren, the evangelical Southern California pastor who gave the invocation at President Obama's inauguration, told Larry King last week that he didn't campaign for Prop 8, the California initiative ban on same-sex marriage. In fact, he did. In this Politico story, Warren's pr agents try to walk this one back by arguing that Warren was too tired from his Holy Week duties. Apparently, exhaustion makes one more favorable to same-sex marriage. Which suggests a strategy for the likely initiative battle to overturn Prop 8 in 2010: set off fog horns and shine bright lights in key precincts in the middle of the night.

On a more serious note, Warren's vacillation is as strong a sign as any which way the public is moving on this issue.

Your blogger has done quite a bit of non-blog work lately on California topics. Here goes.

-On the LA Times and its problems, here's a piece called "The Morgue" (I didn't write the headline--the LA Times isn't going to die) from The New Republic and on the cancellation of the local news section from Fox & Hounds Daily.

-Here are my radio appearances this week on the Los Angeles NPR affiliate's show "Which Way, LA?" on the state's cash crisis and the ballot measures that will be needed to clean it up. Here's Monday's and Tuesday's. Both appearances came near the end of the broadcast.

-And I've become one of the cast of dozens contributing to Politico's In the Arena. The first post is here.