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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
They pay more than they get.
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.
That was funny.
San Francisco is a special city in the "Special Olympics" sense... (no offense meant to the athletes).
* Granola -- a mixure of fruits, nuts and flakes
San Francisco is special, in a short-bus kind of way.
LOL that is a good one.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.