MORE ARNOLD LINKS: Jim Bennett writes that the recall may cause politicians to rethink direct democracy:

Initiative, referendum, and recall will probably get more scrutiny than they have before. However, it is also worth re-examining the idea of electing judges, for example. Have they really brought better judges to the bench than the Federal system of lifetime appointment?

For that matter, making direct election of Senators mandatory was sold as a means of making them more responsible to the people, and less beholden to money. In the era of mass media markets and perpetual fundraising, this has been a joke.

Meanwhile Forbes writer RiShawn Biddle examines Schwarzenegger’s business history in the Los Angeles Business Journal.

UPDATE: Call me crazy, but I don’t think the release of this picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger (NOT work-safe — er, well, as always that depends on where you work, I guess, but. . . .) will hurt his reputation any.