Bob Ostertag, author of the new book Creative Life, blogs at Huffington Post about recent student protests at his university in California.

Governor Schwarzenegger should wash his mouth out with soap. Seriously.

When I was a kid I was over at a friend’s house when he said a bad word and his mother washed his mouth out with soap. It was impressive. I don’t think my friend said that word again for a long time. Now California’s action-figure governor is acting childishly, and he too needs to take some measure to ensure that he never again speaks as he did this week. He owes it to the university students of his state, and indeed to everyone in this country that welcomed his immigration here.

Here is what he did: he called two students of mine terrorists.