Tuesday is the California primary, wherein Golden State voters will be asked to pick a replacement for long-beloved and mostly normal outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer. With the primary comes the Official Voter Information Guide and Candidate Statements, which is a perennially fun read, since California primary candidates are among our nation’s weirdest. (Starchild is one candidate for public office in California that only mid-aughts kids with an interest in municipal politics will remember.)

While debating the Blunt Amendment on the floor of the US Senate, California's Barbara Boxer quoted a bit from an episode of the Daily Show that aired last month. So what if her rendition of the bit was long, rambling and totally didn't do justice to Stewart's material?

An adviser to California Sen. Barbara Boxer has resigned after he was caught bringing "a green, leafy substance which tested positive for marijuana" to his office yesterday, according to Capitol police. Apparently "fun" is banned on the Hill these days.

Quick: What's the best way for a politician to broadcast short, nearly-incomprehensible missives to the world? No, it's not by hacking into Wolf Blitzer's teleprompter before The Situation Room. Twitter! Here are the seven scientifically-determined "Twitter geniuses" of the Senate.

California Senator Barbara Boxer and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina are battling over Boxer's Senate seat. But that's secondary to a more important question—one that an actual, reputable polling firm just asked Californians: Who has better hair?

Slate blogger and union-buster Mickey Kaus is running for Senate in California. It's kind of a gag—he doesn't expect to win. But we'd like to make it a realistic experience for Mickey, and we need your help.

Slate blogger and pathological counterintuitionist Mickey Kaus is actually serious about challenging Barbara Boxer in the California Democratic primary. The deadline to file nomination papers is tomorrow, and he's been gathering signatures. Will Slate let him write as a candidate?

Demi Moore turns 47 today. Leonardo DiCaprio is turning 35. Calista Flockhart is 45. Senator Barbara Boxer of California is turning 69. Stanley Tucci is 49. Jane Pratt, the founder of Sassy and Jane, is 47. Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick is turning 44. Writer Mary Gaitskill is turning 55. Comedian and actor Jonathan Winters is 84. Interior designer Mariette Himes-Gomez is 67. Jessica Sierra, the American Idol contestant-turned-Celebrity Rehab patient, is 24. And Carson Kressley celebrates his 40th birthday today.

Carly Fiorina is already elevating the political discourse in California: The former Hewlett Packard CEO is emailing ads about that one time her opponent politely asked a general to call her "senator" instead of "m'aam," like an arrogant bitch.

Carly Fiorina, still draped in the silky folds of the $45 million golden parachute with which she left Hewlett-Packard in 2005, is planning a Senate run. No wonder she's been talking about "executive excess" lately.

It's Leonardo DiCaprio's big day: The actor turns 34 today. Stanley Tucci is 48. Demi Moore turns 46. Jane Pratt, the founder of Sassy and Jane magazines, is 46, too. Carson Kressley is 39. Calista Flockhart is turning 44. Senator Barbara Boxer is 68. Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick is 43. Writer Mary Gaitskill is 54. Interior designer Mariette Himes-Gomez is 66. And Trey Smith, the son of Will Smith, is turning 16 years old.