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, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 20 2007 | Filed under: San Francisco
I wrote earlier in the month about the fact that some in San Francisco are finally getting fed up with the homeless culture. There are more signs that, at least when it comes to their own back yards, San Francisco’s famously liberal residents are beginning to realize that there is a dark side to [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: San Francisco
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom may have surprised most of America with his decision to allow same-sex marriages (the Hell with the law), but he’s downright normal compared to some of the people on the slate:
Blogger Josh Wolf, a video journalist who was imprisoned for 226 days for refusing to turn over recordings of a 2005 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 17 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
The San Francisco Chronicle has a heartrending story about a couple that earns $53,000 a year, but can only afford a small rental in an icky San Francisco neighborhood:
The hard truth is that $53,000 a year doesn’t cut it anymore in the Bay Area. Tens of thousands of working families in the region, even those [...]
Bookworm on Oct 08 2007 | Filed under: San Francisco
I think David Latterman, the President of Fall Line Analytics, a Bay Area market research firm, has put his finger on the San Francisco psyche:
“Maybe there has been an epiphany,” says David Latterman, president of Fall Line Analytics, a local market research firm. “People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2007 | Filed under: Immigration, San Francisco
The Democrats and their fellow travelers have been terribly upset since its inception by the Patriot Act, which they see as an infringement of their civil liberties. In that context, one of their chief fears is that the federal government will impose a national ID requirement, which they believe will be used to target [...]
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