SFist Photo: Actor Sean Penn, Against the War, Still

A Senator and her constituent: Carole Migden and the brightest film star residing in NorCal were all smiles before they tackled a serious subject over the weekend.

Actor and part time journalist Sean Penn spent some time in the Bay Area working on antiwar issues this past weekend. To say he was a little ahead of the country with his opposition to the increasingly unpopular conflict in Iraq would be a gross understatement, to say the least. Eavesdropping is rude but we know that Mr. Penn and the Senator discussed battle plans on opposing the war going into next year, and also her Joint Senate Resolution 10 concerning the overextension of California's National Guard troops and ways of getting CA's part-time servicemembers back home. We didn't notice any Celtic tattoos on Sean (ala Mystic River) but we did spot a small inked-on logogram on his left forearm. How to pronounce it is a mystery to us, but its a very simple Chinese character meaning strength or power. Mmmmm.