A California Redo

Walter Russell Mead has the new state boundaries:

Another source:

Decades of social rot in California found their fullest expression on Memorial Day, when firefighters and police officers stood by and allowed a 53-year-old man to slowly drown himself just off the Alameda shore.

No one dipped a toe in the water — the firefighters weren’t trained for ocean rescues, they said, while cops fretted that the man standing neck-deep in the sea might be armed.

“They were there two hours,” said the mother of now-deceased Raymond Zack, who watched her son die. “There were kids playing and police and firefighters standing around. Nobody did a thing.”