Posted on 05/01/2012 8:10:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s no mistaking that Berkeley enjoys an outsized reputation for a city of only 113,000 people.
While people from the redder parts of the country may think of Berkeley and San Francisco as liberal twins, the East Bay college town has a progressive flavor that leaves its big-city neighbor lying in the middle of the road.
For this slideshow, Allen Matthews, Katie Dowd, John King and Dave Curran and Kitty Luce came up with the captions. Gate photo editor Douglas Zimmerman shot or found the illustrations....
(SLIDE SHOW AT LINK)
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
“Take a look.”
Not even if you paid me.
Hahahaha!
Berzerkeley
I must have missed the joke.
:D
I’ll let you keep on thinking, that was a joke.
You know you’re a real Berkeleyan if you wore birkenstocks to your wedding.
>>You know you’re a real Berkeleyan if you wore birkenstocks to your wedding.<<
With white crinoline.
And a satin train with Vera Wang accents.
And you are the groom.
Perhaps there’s good news on the offing in Berkeley. As the university becomes more dominated by Asians, it’ll likely become less radical. Asians mostly just want to study and work hard, get ahead, and provide for their families—and don’t have much of a taste for radicalism.
Perhaps there’s good news on the offing in Berkeley. As the university becomes more dominated by Asians, it’ll likely become less radical. Asians mostly just want to study and work hard, get ahead, and provide for their families—and don’t have much of a taste for radicalism.
Perhaps there’s good news on the offing in Berkeley. As the university becomes more dominated by Asians, it’ll likely become less radical. Asians mostly just want to study and work hard, get ahead, and provide for their families—and don’t have much of a taste for radicalism.
Perhaps there’s good news on the offing in Berkeley. As the university becomes more dominated by Asians, it’ll likely become less radical. Asians mostly just want to study and work hard, get ahead, and provide for their families—and don’t have much of a taste for radicalism.
Redder? It’s hard to be more Red than Berkeley.
Dang, was hoping this was about Bishop Berkeley.
“Perhaps there’s good news on the offing in Berkeley. As the university becomes more dominated by Asians, it’ll likely become less radical. Asians mostly just want to study and work hard, get ahead, and provide for their families—and don’t have much of a taste for radicalism”
xactly.. around ‘89 an asian loaned me his ID so I could enter the library. I do not look Asian.
Some people say that if it were not for the Berkeley Wing-nuts on every corner, California would’ve fallen into the ocean already.
Here is the brilliant Bush Administration lawyer John Yoo on living in Berkeley:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/29/local/la-me-john-yoo29-2010mar29/2
"It's like looking at the panoramic displays of troglodytes sitting around the campfire with their clubs. Here, it's tie-dye and marijuana. It's just like the 1960s, with the Vietnam War still to protest."
..."But that doesn't mean I don't like it here," he says.
He is not kidding, and I think he is exactly right. It can be very entertaining to be a conservative in Berkeley.
BERKELEY, Calif. (KCBS) -- One woman was arrested Tuesday as authorities removed some of the structures that have housed tree sitting protesters in an oak grove UC Berkeley wants to cut down to make way for a $125 million athletic facility.
The protester was taken into custody after she reportedly bit one of the workers removing her supplies, according to police. Officers cordoned off part of Piedmont Avenue near Memorial Grove and brought in arborists to remove the platforms and gear the tree sitters have used to maintain their perches since December 2006. A university official had earlier said the tree sitters themselves would not be removed yet.
“One of the things we’re most concerned about is safety and security, of our police officers and the people in the trees. That’s the reason we’re not forcibly removing people from the trees today,” said Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for UC Berkeley.
Tuesday was not the first time the university has removed scaffolding built by the protesters, but removing the people has proven more difficult. One witness told KCBS reporter Tim Ryan at the scene that some of the tree sitters threw urine they had collected in buckets at the police and arborists to discourage them from climbing.
http://www.kcbs.com/In-Berkeley--Down-from-the-Trees/2427277
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"At least one tree sitter on Tuesday began throwing bags of human waste on the approaching arborists."
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/news/print.asp?id=25637
“has a progressive flavor”
Open-air drug dealing, crack whacks begging for money, hookers working the streets in daylight, Bong Shops, Pot Stores...
REAL PROGRESSIVE, there....
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