[NormsRevenge]

``We may feel disconnected from the rest of the country at times,'' she says, ``but that's just because the rest of the country hasn't caught up with us yet.''

You might say.. "They feeel French!"

[headsonpikes]

Judging from evident brain function impairment, I think there may be grounds for a class action suit against hot-tub manufacturers by the Bay Area victims.

[madprof98]

``The Bay Area is not America,. . . . whatever America is these days, it is represented more by Texas than by California.''

Thank God!

[telebob]

Just something to keep in mind: This a liberal reporter for a liberal newspaper doing a piece about liberalism by interviewing his liberal friends. I live in the Bay Area and most people I know are nowhere near what you would call liberal. That doesn't mean that the Bay Area is a hot bed of smoldering conservatism, but we're here, nonetheless...

[gcruse]

whatever America is these days, it is represented more by Texas than by California.

For example, Shania Twain at the Super Bowl.  She was also the featured half time entertainment
at the Grey Cup, the Canadian football league's championship game.  Maybe there's
hope for Canada, too.

[RooRoobird14]

Hubby and I were in San Francisco in January when the first big anti-war protest was staged. It's a lovely city to visit for a couple of days, but a couple of days were all we could stand--the leftist Anti-American politics there are absolutely suffocating.

If another 8.5 earthquake hit this city, I'd feel like it was God's judgement upon the this modern-day Babylon.

[Plutarch]

Is it just me, or does this piece strike anyone else as a tad self-congratulatory?

[skeeter]

Yet it had an air of desperation, as if the women were crying out for attention on behalf of everyone on this faraway coast.

BS.

Speak for yourself, putz.

[The Iguana]

``I think we've always been viewed as a liberal bastion of crooked thinking, off-center liberals that the country is finally willing to marginalize.''

Bingo.

[jiggyboy]

``By not embracing other nations because of our isolationist spirit, we tend to radicalize them,'' Heyman says.

Obviously a Blame America First-er -- he is exactly wrong about what is cause and what is effect.

[texasbluebell]

To longtime Bay Area music critic Robert Blades, Bush's distaste for the far West ``says to me maybe we're more trouble than we're worth.''

Hey, guy, you might be onto something there.

[John Valentine]

``We may feel disconnected from the rest of the country at times,'' she says, ``but that's just because the rest of the country hasn't caught up with us yet.''

You just keep on running, Wiggsy, hopefully we never will.