Bookworm on Oct 28 2008 | Filed under: Education, San Francisco
It’s a done deal: the JROTC is out in San Francisco and kids instead get to learn first aid. All of the discipline, pride, unit cohesion, drilling, and athletic credit that went with JROTC have just been replaced with a first aid class.
Now I’m all in favor of first aid. I deeply admire the first [...]
Bookworm on Oct 04 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco, Women
I found fascinating the fact that, even in San Francisco, the most liberal, diverse, open to everything (except conservatism and religion) city in the whole US (except for Berkeley), women are not making headway in politics:
In a year when gender has played a significant role in the presidential campaign - 18 million people voted for [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Immigration, San Francisco
San Francisco recently abandoned its policy of giving refuge to illegal immigrants if they were juvenile offenders. Now, unsurprisingly, we learn that criminals were taking advantage of the City’s useful idiot policy and playing it for all it was worth. You see, almost a third of the so-called “juvenile” offenders the City was protecting were, [...]
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 Apr 10 2008 | Filed under: Gun control
The State Supreme Court got this one right, and neatly sidestepped any discussion of the 2nd Amendment in doing so:
The state Supreme Court dealt a final blow Wednesday to San Francisco’s voter-approved ban on handguns, rejecting the city’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms.
The court’s unanimous [...]
Bookworm on Mar 20 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war
As the SF Chron noted, the anti-War protests yesterday were pathetic shadows of their former selves:
In the morning, a crowd of about 500 people snaked its way through the Financial District, periodically prompting police to shut down intersections and city blocks and Muni officials to reroute buses.
Yet, despite the often creative costumes and messages, [...]
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 [...]
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