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Misfit S.F. is just ahead of its time
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/2/6 | Joan Ryan

Posted on 03/02/2006 8:16:39 AM PST by SmithL

It is said that we never really leave high school. The workplace is high school with cubicles. Our neighborhoods are high school with cocktail parties.

When I heard about the San Francisco Board of Supes passing a resolution this week calling for the impeachment of the president, a move that followed one of the supes dismissing on national television the need for a standing military, I suddenly had an image of a high school made up of all the major cities in the country.

Just as every student plays a role in the dynamic of a school, so does every big city in the dynamic of a country.

Los Angeles is the cheerleader with the nose job and the Juicy Couture tank top. Chicago is the good-natured linebacker who is the go-to guy when a keg needs tapping and isn't above stuffing the ballot box to become class president.

San Francisco is the odd kid in the back row of the classroom in the tattered vintage jeans and fuchsia scarf with a streak of orange in his hair. He doesn't wear leather and explains with the verve of an evangelist why not.

He is of ambiguous sexual orientation and ethnicity, though there's a clear Asian influence. He has amazing bone structure. He is trim and elegant without being too polished. He carries himself the way people do who know they are beautiful. But he doesn't make any particular effort to look good. That would be shallow and, in his book, shallowness is about the most serious sin.

He sees himself as an intellectual, someone who is compassionate and sophisticated, well read and well traveled, socially conscious and politically enlightened. That not everyone sees him in the same way is of no concern to him.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: baghdadbythebay; metrosexualcity; sanctuaryfrancisco; soddomandgommrah; sodomandgomorrah
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To: Rummyfan
They want to be special and different - fine with me! Cut off all Federal funds and let them secede if they want. Doubt anyone would miss them.

They pay more than they get.

21 posted on 03/02/2006 8:54:34 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: AngryJawa

San Jose is the kid in the front row that takes notes and studies hard and does San Francisco's papers for him so SF can get the credit he doesn't really deserve.


22 posted on 03/02/2006 8:57:19 AM PST by uncitizen (i.e. like calling himself part of "Silicon Valley")
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To: uncitizen
Washington is the Student Government president who looks good on TV, but whose parents are divorced, is a latch-key kid, and who mooches the other kid's lunches.

Baltimore is Chicago's kid brother; not quite in the same class, but starting to do well on the JV team.
23 posted on 03/02/2006 9:37:42 AM PST by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: SmithL

That was funny.


24 posted on 03/02/2006 10:21:43 AM PST by newzjunkey (All I need is a safe home and peace of mind. Why am I still in CA?)
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To: SmithL

San Francisco is a special city in the "Special Olympics" sense... (no offense meant to the athletes).


25 posted on 03/02/2006 10:43:53 AM PST by thoughtomator (I understand Democrats' impatience; If Kerry were President, Iran would have nuked Israel by now)
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To: SmithL
Cup-o-Fluff Joan thinks she's being complimentary, while explaining that San Francisco is the Granola* city.

* Granola -- a mixure of fruits, nuts and flakes

26 posted on 03/02/2006 12:04:24 PM PST by CedarDave (Freeper Allegra in Iraq -- "I'm seeing what the media isn't telling you...there is no civil war...")
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To: thoughtomator; ncountylee

San Francisco is special, in a short-bus kind of way.


27 posted on 03/02/2006 12:13:18 PM PST by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: uncitizen

LOL that is a good one.


28 posted on 03/02/2006 12:56:29 PM PST by Betis70 (zoom zoom)
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