Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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,
Continue readingEverybody 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
Continue readingSan 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
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingAs 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
Continue readingIn 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
Continue readingLast 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
Continue readingLast 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
Continue readingIn 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
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