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.
“He is not kidding, and I think he is exactly right. It can be very entertaining to be a conservative in Berkeley.”
And the food is good.
As irritating as it can be, I think every country needs a Berkeley - it provokes the mind, like a sand grain in an oyster.