Tag Archive 'Environmentalists'

San Francisco: America’s homegrown anarchic totalitarianism

A quick, and personal, history of San Francisco’s decline from the 1960s to the present I was born and grew up in San Francisco.  My very earliest memories of the City just predate the advent of the hippies.  At that time, the City was a solid amalgam of working class people, middle class people, and [...]

Nature: agile and aggressive

I was down at San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf the other day, waiting for a ferry.  While there, I admired the sea lions sunning themselves on the wooden rafts off of Pier 39.  They’re a great local and tourist attraction.  Very smelly, but very amusing. I had my iPhone so I took an indistinct picture.  The [...]