Bookworm on Jul 18 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
Many years ago, I did a post noting how extraordinarily scatalogical the true believers on the Left are. To me, that obsession with fecal matter bespeaks a certain, how shall I say it?, immaturity. It’s all of a piece with what Diana West writes about in her book, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s [...]
Bookworm on Jul 17 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
I won’t comment; I’ll just point out:
A long overdue civil grand jury report released Wednesday says that the city should be proud of getting over 4,000 homeless people into housing since 2004 but distressed at the scene on the streets.
Panhandling, public drunkenness and street loitering are still an unpleasant reality downtown.
The mayor and others are [...]
Bookworm on Jun 27 2008 | Filed under: Education, San Francisco
In another of those hastily called School Board meetings — a tactic used to ensure that JROTC supporters will be less likely to attend the meeting — the SF School Board cut the legs off the JROTC program by denying it PE credits:
San Francisco public high schools will no longer award physical education credit to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 18 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
Although the San Francisco School Board attempted to schedule its most recent JROTC initiative on such short notice that no one could attend (translation: no JROTC supporters could attend), that sneaky little effort failed. Supporters showed up and carried the day, with the School Board backing off from its plan to deny to the program [...]
Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
…And you want to let the San Francisco Board of Education know how seriously displeased you are about its decision to get rid of JROTC, you can do something about it:
A group fighting to keep the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in San Francisco high schools is beginning a campaign to take the battle to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
Life isn’t always fair, but San Francisco is bound and determined to make it so. Apparently, they’re now hoping to have television police — yup, police to make sure that television sets in public places (including private businesses open to the public), have to be configured with close-captioning.
Close-captioning is a nice thing for the hearing [...]
Bookworm on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Gun control, San Francisco
That the North Bay region (SF, Marin, etc.) will send a Democrat to the California Senate in November goes without saying. What’s interesting is that North Bay Democrats selected the most extremely Progressive (read: far Left) of the three people vying for that seat (Carole Migden, Joe Nation and Mark Leno). I [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco, Sex
Masturbation has been a staple of R or X-rated humor for a long time. Other than that, being a solo activity, it hasn’t had much of a public life — or so I thought until this morning. In keeping with the posts I did about the Bacchanal that San Francisco’s venerable Bay to [...]
Bookworm on May 21 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
In my rants about the Bay to Breakers race, I mentioned the fact that, despite lots of porta-potties, many of the participants thought it was just fine to use the bushes. At Webloggin, which reprints some of my posts, the editor found a perfect picture of a wall and sidewalk being liberally sprinkled by [...]
Bookworm on May 19 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
As you read the following excerpts from the San Francisco Chronicle’s report on the 96th annual Bay to Breakers race, please remember that this group of people traversed seven miles of City streets, ending up in Golden Gate Park. The actions described below did not happen at a private party, nor did they take [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
Everybody around me was having fun, but I was not. Instead, I found the whole thing very depressing. Oh, I forgot to tell you what I’m talking about.
We went to see the crowd at the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race — a race that was started 96 years ago to commemorate the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Climate change, Crime and punishment, San Francisco
San Francisco is a very crowded little city. Although it covers only about seven 49 square miles (it’s a little square about 7 miles on each side), it’s the fourth most populous City in California, with almost 800,000 people crammed into that little space. Interestingly, though, San Francisco did not end up going [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco, Welfare
In the San Francisco Chronicle — the San Francisco Chronicle! — columnist CW Nevius continues to complain (rightly) about the way in which the homeless are truly destroying once beautiful San Francisco (a problem I trace with unerring personal memory to the revolting decay of the drug culture in the Haight at the end of [...]
Bookworm on Mar 05 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
Last week, I blogged about the way in which a wheel chair ramp in the meeting room that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors used has ballooned into a more than $1,000,000 project. I also pointed out that the whole program had the smell of a dictatorship of one, since the only beneficiary would be [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2008 | Filed under: Immigration, San Francisco
Last night, I was discussing with my mother the British woman I met in Florida who said that the situation in England, vis a vis Muslims, is much worse than even the papers describe. Aside from pointing to political correctness as the culprit, I also also laid the blame, as did the British woman, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 27 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, San Francisco
In several posts over the last few days, I’ve commented about Disney efficiency. Thousands of people are fairly painlessly shuffled from place to place; Fast Passes are a think of beauty, especially if individuals handle them well; everything is immaculately clean, including the overused bathrooms; the equipment functions superbly well considering the demands made upon [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: Military, San Francisco
A few months ago, San Francisco humiliated itself by refusing to allow the Marines to film part of a TV commercial on San Francisco’s streets. Looking at what the Marines eventually did for the Bay Area portion of their shot, which was to use the Golden Gate Bridge as soon from the Golden Gate [...]
Bookworm on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco
I grew up in San Francisco when Herb Caen, the famed columnist, was still calling it “the City that knows how.” Right now, the only thing it seems to know how to do is self-destruct, with the ultra liberal Ninth Circuit aiding and abetting:
A federal appeals court gave San Francisco the green light Wednesday [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: Education, Military, San Francisco
The San Francisco Board of Education gave the City’s Junior ROTC program a one year reprieve. That’s good, and a lot can happen in a year (one hopes). I found interesting, in a disgusted way, the comment from one of those trying to destroy JROTC:
Several people spoke out against the extension, reiterating the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2007 | Filed under: African-Americans, Crime and punishment, San Francisco
The San Francisco Chron has a long article about the fact that, in the Bay Area, blacks are locked up disproportionately for drug crimes, as compared to whites:
San Francisco imprisons African Americans for drug offenses at a much higher rate than whites, according to a report to be released today by a nonprofit research institute.
In [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Education, Military, San Francisco
San Franciscans keep electing people like this, so I guess they get the government they deserve. By this, I mean the Stupes who decided to give everyone ID cards (which sounds like a good way to connect terrorists to their own personal bank accounts) and the School Board which is bound and determined to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Immigration, San Francisco
Well, the Board of Stupes, er, Supes, did it. They will now issue identification cards to all residents, legal or not, and require employers to accept them:
The Board of Supervisors voted today to make San Francisco the largest U.S. city to issue municipal identification cards to its residents, regardless of whether or not they are [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: San Francisco
I loathe cigarette smoke. I hate the way it permeates my clothes, hair and even my skin. I’m in agony when I’m trapped in a room with smokers. And because a room is a closed space and the smoke has nowhere to go, I’m okay with smoking bans inside buildings that are [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, San Francisco
I grew up in San Francisco, and always found the intersection at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard frustrating and nerve wracking. Sloat runs east/west and 19th Avenue runs north/south. If you’re heading south on 19th Avenue, and want to make a left turn onto Sloat (heading east), there is a left turn signal. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Christians, GBLT, Islam, San Francisco
. . . . a wonderful opinion piece that Cinnamon Stillwell wrote about the San Francisco drag queens dressed as nuns who took Holy Communion, not as an act of faith, but to ridicule the Church. Not only does Cinnamon expose the fundamentally anti-Christian attitude behind this attack on the deepest principles of the Church, [...]
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