Morford: It Will All Be Over Soon. BushCo? Kerry? SUV gluttony? Your last orgasm?

It's so easy to get all caught up in the everyday spit and hiss and noise and blank presidential smirks. Isn't it?

It is, after all, incredibly easy to get stuck in the white-hot moment, all screaming elections and bland debates and counterfeit terrorism fears and ugly obesity epidemics and Atkins-approved bubble gum and air/water pollution like an afterthought, all commingling with the mad melodrama of your last bad haircut and the scratch on your precious bumper to the point where we forget the scope of it all, the scale, the macro and the micro and the ebb and flow and the imminent flip of the cosmic switch.

This is how we are wired. This is only what we see. The long view is clearly not our forte, a sense of the celestial a concept we just can't quite taste. We forget, for example, how relatively quickly regimes rise and neoconservative empires fall and populations overturn and how nearly every single human biped now alive and walking and spitting and parallel parking and consuming Big Macs and not watching ABC sitcoms on the planet today will be very much completely dead within a short 100 years, if not sooner.

Pause here. Think about that. A hundred years, everyone now alive, dead. Everyone. You. Me. Bush. Your kids. All dead. Guaranteed...

Agree with you 110% . . . I lived in "The City" for nearly four years while attending college. After that period I lived and worked in Santa Clara while working on my MBA. My brother worked for three mayors of San Francisco (Alioto, Mosconi, Feinstein) and was a close personal aide and speech writer for Mosconi. He still works in downtown San Francisco.

I know SF really, really well. But I no longer love it. That is impossible today. "The City" that I loved is gone into a time warp and now is just a misty memory. SF has been ruined the same way other fine cities in the state of "Californicated" have been ruined: Lowered expectations for students; illegal immigration (Hispanics, Russkies, etc.); far to much crowding or "population density;" too many SUV's being driven by angry, exhausted workers; escalating costs of living (everything is UP); greedy city and state tax collectors; housing costs have crashed through the roof; college costs that will soon bankrupt the middle class; and all sorts of strange inner city activity most people just write off as "gangland USA." Very sad, but totally true. All of it is really a tragic commentary on our society at large today.

But I still have a list of many of my favorite restauants that have been open for over 25 years. I think about visiting San Francisco more frequently today because Oregon is going the same way. Oh, well . . .

Notice he doesn't refer to "His kids", Homos de-populate quite quickly.

There is no such animal today as a southside chicago republican, is there?

I thought I was the last one to leave 20 years ago, I even shut off the lights (59th and Kedzie).

I guess your the last one languishing there in the dark:)

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