Tag Archive 'homeless'

Irony alert from the Veruca Salt party (aka OWS)

Veruca Salt has been much on my mind lately, probably because I live with a teen and a tween.  “I want it now,” is the operative demand in our household.  The fact that I routinely turn a deaf ear to that malign howl doesn’t deter the Veruca practitioners with whom I live. The OWS is [...]

The homeless scam in 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 [...]

Attention liberals: tough love is sometimes the answer

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 [...]