In his State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drew upon pigs, ponies, prisons and priorities to push a slate of economic proposals for his final year in office. . . .

So the future of California rests in the hands (hooves?) of pigs and ponies. . . .

As the governor's political muscle softens in his final year in office, the budget is the one major issue where he'll still have some clout with lawmakers, who can't delay solving the deficit. . . .

No government agency—or private entity—computes the dollar value of goods that people in the rest of the world sell to or buy from Californians. . . .