Archive for the 'San Francisco' Category
Bookworm on Jan 17 2012 | Filed under: Abortion, San Francisco
Here’s the lede: The great thing about living in San Francisco is that it is socially and culturally responsible. The bad thing is, a city that is so socially and culturally responsible can’t resist taking the bait when a fringe group tries to provoke a reaction. In a non-Bizarro world, one might think that the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2011 | Filed under: San Francisco
San Francisco used to be charming. Now it’s just kind of creepy — or, at least, large parts of it are. For example, the OWSers are creepy. Even creepier is what happens when the OWSers come together with the nekkid Santas. And I have to ask, as I always do: Why is it always only [...]
Bookworm on Dec 10 2011 | Filed under: San Francisco
I don’t know who created this, but it’s clearly someone deeply familiar with San Francisco and its mindset (click on thumbnail for full size image):
Bookworm on Sep 06 2011 | Filed under: San Francisco
The City That Knows How, which is how long-time San Francisco columnist Herb Caen viewed his beloved adopted city, is at it again, this time with proposed legislation saying you can’t enter restaurants nude, nor can you, as a nude person, sit down in a public space without putting something under yourself first. How about [...]
Bookworm on Aug 23 2011 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, San Francisco
I do not understand the liberal love affair with government. Government is inefficient and it bullies people. Had a business engaged in the same conduct as the City of San Francisco, it would have apologized profusely or found itself flamed to death. A government, however, can act with impunity, because it holds the power. I’m [...]
Bookworm on Jun 15 2011 | Filed under: Education, Military, San Francisco
The news is good, at least for the time being, but I was rather amazed to learn that JROTC, which has been around since before WWI, all over America, is “controversial”: The San Francisco school board gave the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps yet another vote of confidence Tuesday, ensuring that the controversial military leadership [...]
Bookworm on Jun 03 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, San Francisco
I often say I’m shocked by something that crosses my computer screen, but that’s not really true. I mean, I probably sort of shocked insofar as I’m surprised that someone has behaved according to type, but in an extreme way, or that something I’ve long assumed would happen actually did happen (or, in a surprising [...]
Bookworm on Apr 14 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, San Francisco, Taxes
San Francisco is definitely up in the top five when it comes to “most Progressively governed cities in America.” No surprise, then, that the city’s finances are in a shambles. What is a surprise is the fact that, faced with a looming budget collapse, the City has suddenly discovered capitalist incentives: it’s offering the big [...]
Bookworm on Mar 30 2011 | Filed under: San Francisco
San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is not a nice place, and never has been: hence, the name “Tenderloin,” which is short hand for the fact that it is City’s soft underbelly. PETA, though, just hates the thought that a neighborhood could be named after a cut of meat, so it’s taking a stand.
Bookworm on Mar 20 2011 | Filed under: San Francisco, Unions
One of my “crossing the Rubicon” moments came upon me about twenty years ago, when I went to the main branch of the old San Francisco public library (before it moved to its snazzy, very expensive new digs), and tried to check out a book. I found myself standing in a line of about 60 [...]
Bookworm on Feb 01 2011 | Filed under: San Francisco
This little squiblet from C.W. Nevius’ column in the SF Chron (which is about the only thing in the SF Chron still worth reading), sums up everything that is wrong with San Francisco: Greg and Christy Baciocco, who have run NuStar Heating and Metal Supply on Otis Street since 1989, are resigned to their graffiti [...]
Bookworm on Dec 13 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco
In Progressive cities, long-established businesses pull out because (a) they can’t afford the cost of doing business in a Progressive-run city and (b) the work force is substandard (which may go a long way to why the City’s voters consistently elect Progressives).
Bookworm on Nov 20 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco, Taxes
I blogged earlier this week about the fact that San Francisco, which is broke, was trying to find $137 million so that the feds would provide it with almost $1 billion dollars in funds to build a 1.7 mile subway tunnel. Federal money, of course, is your money. This is not money belonging to beleaguered [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2010 | Filed under: Government, San Francisco
I wasn’t paying attention to this, but it turns out that San Francisco, which already has a fairly comprehensive public transportation system, wants another 1.7 miles underground — at a cost of $1.6 billion. Think about it. That cost is almost one million one hundred million for every tenth of a mile. Now, I know [...]
Bookworm on Nov 14 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco
From today’s Chron: Soon-to-be-dethroned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have been a favorite target of Republican candidates in the midterm elections Nov. 2 – by one count more than 400 of their ads featured her as the enemy – but voters in her famously liberal home turf of San Francisco still love her. A look [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco
If one man has his way, San Francisco voters will be able to ban circumcision in San Francisco: His proposed measure would “make it a misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the foreskin, testicle or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18,” [snip] Under the proposed measure circumcising a [...]
Bookworm on Nov 02 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco, Socialism
As Jonah Goldberg pointed out in Liberal Fascism, socialists, as part of their ongoing effort to perfect mankind, are obsessed with food intake. The Nazis were especially focused on purifying the Aryan body. Now, I’m not likening the San Francisco Board of Stupidvisors to the Nazis — God forbid! — but I am pointing out [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2010 | Filed under: Israel, San Francisco
Word got out that ANSWER, a Communist front group, is planning a protest at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco today (June 1), so Stand With Us in San Francisco is trying to gather for a counter-protest. So, the email you see below is from a group friendly to Israel, giving information about ANSWER’s protest, [...]
Bookworm on May 04 2010 | Filed under: Republicans, San Francisco
I’m not a San Francisco voter, nor am I familiar with the GOP in that District. (All I know is that stalwart SF GOPers must truly be of hardy stock.) Having received this email, however, I wanted to pass it on to you, for what it’s worth. It’s not an endorsement (because I don’t know [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco
At least one less extreme Democrat in San Francisco is very worried about the hardcore Leftism that has taken root and flourished in the City. A City that was always to the lefter side of the political spectrum now has the potential to devolve into the kind of ideological Leftism that will destroy the City’s [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco, Tea Parties, Unions
I’m all for reducing pollution, but we don’t need a trumped-up excuse like “climate change” in order to achieve a cleaner environment. Minimizing pollution is a legitimate goal which stands on its own merits; concocting hysterical disaster scenarios (such as those shown in An Inconvenient Truth) only serves to undermine any credibility the environmental and [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco
I’m in San Francisco on a fairly regular basis, which has given me ample time to see, repeatedly, ads on the side of MUNI buses. I can’t remember the wording, since I only see these ads for instants at a time, but they pretty much say, “Fill out the census, so that we know how [...]
Bookworm on Apr 21 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco
I spent many years working in downtown San Francisco. Indeed, more to the point for this article, I spent many years working in the Transamerica Pyramid. I know the area well. It is entirely urban, in that it is an amalgam of high rises, low rises, and some trees planted on the sidewalks in little [...]
Bookworm on Apr 08 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco, Tea Parties
The beauty of a Tea Party in San Francisco is that this is home turf for Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein. It makes a real impact if their own home town makes a showing against the policies these three gals advance. Here’s the latest news. SAN FRANCISCO TEA PARTY UPDATE 1. VENUE The San Francisco Tea [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: GBLT, Homosexuality, Israel, San Francisco
You and I know the incredible peculiarities of the Leftist world, which sees feminists ignoring sharia’s worst outrages and gay activists who are out in full cry trying to establish a fully Muslim Middle East, a place in which the only good gay activist will be a dead gay activist. As to the latter, there [...]
