All is not peaceful in liberal-land
Two stories today about internecine warfare on the Left: Fight! Fight! On the Left: An Update Google bus blocked in San Francisco gentrification protest I am gleefully wallowing in schadenfreude.
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A friend gets a hard lesson about the “liberal” police state
I was quite tired yesterday when I read something interesting. Having read it, I jotted down an idea for blogging about it. That note says “loving the individual versus loving the system.” I then went to bed. Today, I’ve spent the last several hours trying to remember what I read
Continue readingLife in the suburbs
I may not agree with Marin politically (it’s roughly 70% to the Left of Left, despite the rampant capitalism that supports its infrastructure), but it is a fabulous place to raise children. Sure, there are problems with drugs and drinking (lots of them), but the fact remains that if you
Continue readingPsychopathic San Francisco landlords crack under the strain
When my husband and I started looking to buy our own house, he was very gung-ho on buying a duplex. His plan was that we would live in one unit and rent out the other, with the rent covering the mortgage. In theory, it’s a great idea. In practice —
Continue readingPro-Life versus Get-A-Life
If you’d like to see a wonderful, fascinating compare-and-contrast photo essay, you’ve got to read Zombie’s Walk for Life vs. Roe v. Wade birthday party: Abortion showdown SF. To begin with, I love Zombie’s writing style, which is an invigorating blend of erudition, true humanism, and snark. Additionally, the post
Continue readingHow should cities cope with the homeless?
Tom Ammiano, San Francisco’s reliably far-Left supervisor, was in the local news today because he’s come out with a new proposal that can be called “the homeless bill of rights“: Among other things, the proposed law would require legal representation for anyone cited under such laws as San Francisco’s sit/lie
Continue readingThe girl’s guide to visiting the USS Makin Island
Courtesy of the Navy League, today I boarded the USS Makin Island as an official ship’s greeter. My visit was a bit more fraught than past experiences have been, so I thought I’d walk you through the girl’s guide to visiting the USS Makin Island, starting with pre-visit preparations: Review
Continue readingLife in an increasingly fascist city — what San Francisco’s plastic bag ban means
San Francisco’s plastic bag ban went into effect today. Not only does it ban plastic bags entirely, it also forces people to pay 10 cents for every paper bag they use. The new rule in the City is bring your own bags or suffer. All the usual suspects are happy.
Continue readingObama savaged in San Francisco
Aside from getting to see downtown San Francisco without actually having to shlep into downtown San Francisco, I liked Zombie’s latest photo essay because it shows how disaffected Obama is. The Left hates him, the Right hates him, and he spends time hobnobbing with the rich. He is not a
Continue readingThe streets of San Francisco (or, this is Nancy Pelosi’s city)
Writing a couple of years ago about the streets of San Francisco, in a post I called “Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco,” I had this to say: Last week, I had occasion to make four separate trips to the City. Each was unpleasant. The first trip, I got a flat tire
Continue readingJust Because Music: The New Seekers “I’d like to teach the world to sing”
I remember the hippies as dirty, drugged-out, pathetic human beings lying on the streets in the Haight Ashbury. Their continuing legacy is one of drugs, sexual self-indulgence, and mindless statism wrapped up in equally mindless slogans of “love” and “fairness,” as if a government is capable of giving love or
Continue readingThat Planned Parenthood video I posted earlier is the real deal
Last week, I posted a Planned Parenthood of San Francisco video that was so extreme and biased, I raised the possibility that it was a fake, intended to discredit PP. The inestimable Zombie, bless his (or her) heart, did the leg work for me and discovered that it is the
Continue readingSan Francisco Chronicle columnist warns city’s rational thinkers not to roll in the mud with one specific fringe group
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,
Continue readingPro-abortion group manipulates truth to qualify for banners on San Francisco’s main drag
(Market Street, by Alfonso Jiminez) Market Street is San Francisco’s main drag. There are other major streets in the City, but Market Street the one that starts just below Twin Peaks and travels diagonally northeast all the way to the Ferry Building. It traverses the Castro District, the outer fringes
Continue readingThe media again attacks the military
I came of age in the post-Vietnam era. Let me amend that: I came of age in San Francisco in the post-Vietnam era. Although Fleet Week, which started in the City about 20+ years ago has done a lot to turn things around, San Francisco has not been a military
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