CALIFORNIA’S RECALL is Jimmy Durante’s complaint: Everybody wants to get into the act. The bar at Washington, D.C.’s Ritz-Carlton now serves a “Total Recall” cocktail. The hotel calls it a “a bipartisan drink made with conservative ingredients and a liberal pour” (three parts vodka, two parts Chambord, two parts orange juice, a dash of ginger ale, and cranberry juice; stir with ice, strain, and serve, martini-style)

Back in the Golden State, Taco Bell has launched a “recall election taco poll.” Purchase a crunchy beef taco and it’s a vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger; a soft chicken taco is for Gray Davis. (It isn’t Davis’s first brush with poultry. After taking office, the governor chose “Apollo” as his CHP code name. Members of his security entourage, none too fond of his prickly personality, soon modified that to “a pollo”–Spanish for “chicken.”)