WHO NEEDS SPORTS...

When you've got San Francisco politics?

Willie just got out-Willied...

I'm sitting here with my absentee ballot working through the propositions (Borrow a lot of money to fix up schools? Umm, OK, but you're gonna pay that back, right?... Rewrite the city's ethics code? Why bother when you can't even enforce the damn corruption laws...? Lifetime taxi medallions? I don't think so...)

But the real fun starts when you go to the Democrat and Republican websites and get their soundbytes on the propositions. My particular favorite is the common-sensical Prop J, authored by Angela Alioto, which would keep homeless kids and seniors in separate shelter space from the rougher homeless types. The GOP knows there's something wrong with this because Alioto wrote it, but what? Their objection is that it provides "Mandated Separate Facilities for homeless". OIC - it shouldn't be mandated, that would be dictatorship. Let the free market decide where homeless children should sleep...

Meanwhile the Dems see no inconsistency between raising the minimum wage to $8.50 and opposing an anti-panhandling measure; and at the same time starting a commission to promote small business. Ten bucks says the commission's first report will observe that labor costs in the city are high and small business owners complain a lot about winos hassling the customers...


[It's worse than you think. The plan is not to start a commission on small business, it's to transfer some control of the existing commission from Da Mayor to the board of Supes. The arguments, of course, just talk about how much we need the commission, which begs about nine questions, one of which is, which lever do I pull to kill the whole damn thing. SE]