The Great San Francisco Bubble (FreeRepublic Mentioned)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | day, May 9, 2003 | Mark Morford

[dighton]

... I'd be embarrassed to affix my byline to this.

Like Clinton, Morford is incapable of embarrassment.

[finnman69]

Hey, a bunch of us watch Survivor....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/840525/posts

[headsonpikes]

"...progressive politics..."

Progressive in the exact sense that cancer is progressive.

[GSWarrior]

Can't wait 'til he gradiates' high school...

Wouldn't surprise me if he has a Master's in journalism. He obviously doesn't have a degree in English.

[SES1066]

How lucky we are to have San Francisco, albeit a sorry use of spectacular scenery. With SF attracting such a population of 'deviations from the bell curve', and the anticipated repeat of the San Andreas jump, would this be considered a self-inflicted thinning of this self-deluded population?

[Grando Calrissian]

Not meant as a pejorative.

[finnman69]

Mark enjoying one of SF's finer "balls-out do-it-now feel-good suck-me hell-yes" activity and a healthy sexual lifestyle....

[Cogadh na Sith]

It's not a 'bubble'. It's a rectum.

[redhead]

1. This phrase was bad enough: "...San Francisco still reins as..." (Because the word is REIGNS, you stupid twit!

2. I cannot believe I actually read every single overcooked, adjectivally-glutted word in this sanctimonious, elitist pile of reeking twaddle. It appears to have been raked together by a committee of leather-lickers. The typical fecal meanderings of cruisers and bruisers.

Rats. Now I have to go wash out my eyes.

[proud American in Canada]

"What a homo, I hope he stays the hell out of Eugene."

That all depends on what his boyfriend's name is. ;~)

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ROFL... ;)

[coloradan]

We are indeed anti-gunlicking

Well, I don't lick guns either - not steel ones and not flesh ones either. But guns protect my family and my liberty - both of which are in short supply in SF.

We are more flagrantly enthusiastically balls-out do-it-now feel-good suck-me hell-yes tolerant than Austin and Chicago and Seattle put together.

Liar - how can you be "tolerant" if you hate gun owners?

Because despite S.F.'s adorable slew of brazen flaws, despite our frequent hypocrisy

Yes, indeed!

and suckass mass transit

But, to you sucking ass is a good thing!

[A Navy Vet]

"Can you get doses of S.F.'s brand of rainbow acceptance elsewhere, in other major cities?"

As has been pointed out many times before, what was once asked just to be tolerated must now be "accepted". The next step is to adopt their sordid lifestyle.

[cibco]

"Wouldn't surprise me if he has a Master's in journalism."

I bet he has a Master's allright. Want to bet there is a 'bation' with it?

[sweetliberty]

You know, it's funny the people that feel afraid apart from their urban prisons havens. Inconceivable to me. Those are the only places I really feel afraid. I have traveled the highways of this country often alone and often at night and the only thing that has ever made me afraid was the occasional inexpected onslaught of bad weather. But when I get into an urban jungle, encompassed on all sides by traffic and people and everything is all chaotic and disjointed, at the very least I am in a state of generalized anxiety and at worst the stress compels me to seek any possible means of escape.

[winner3000]

Ultra-leftists keep telling us how non-judgemental and tolerant they are. However every article they write drips of hatred and vitriol when they talk about the other 90% of the population. They don't even realize how full of hatred they are.

[pabianice]

psychosis [sy.KO.sis] (n).

“The inability to distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary. Psychosis is a term used to describe a severe mental illness. Psychotics are characterized by a variety of symptoms that most people consider abnormal. These include experiencing delusions, such as the notion that one is being persecuted or conspired against. Psychotics may see things which don't actually exist and hear Voices (i.e. God) when no one is around. They often exhibit compulsive, irrational, ritualized behavior, esp. when such behavior serves no purpose or is even harmful or disruptive to those around them. They show no concern for others but may exhibit total self-centered behavior. Includes sociopathy, schizophrenia.”

DSM-IV

[sweetliberty]

This little fruit fairy sounds like he really delights in the experience of giddily scampering around amidst his own "intoxicating" words. I have to admit that I find the term "psychopatriots" mildly amusing.

Hi Cheri. How ya been?

Ping to a kinda funny read.

[finnman69]

[Dems_R_Losers]

Oh- and Mr. economist? San Fran's housing prices aren't sky high because it is a great place to live. They are sky high because insane socialist laws like rent control, anti landlord regulations, "open space" building prohibitions, and other totally whacko envirnomental regs. Wonder why there is no "affordable" housing in San Fran? Becasue a developer would be insane to build any sort of lower income housing is San Fran with the current climate. The only new housing that ever gets built is luxary aparts by developers with the cash and connections to jump through the hoops.

Oh- and ask black people in San Fran about how diverse it is. Oh- that's right- there are barely any left as they are being driven out by the busload becasue they can't afford to live in your lilly white (but "progressive") gay wasteland.

Bravo!!! Just try to find an actual poor person in this "progressive paradise" these days. Other than the (white) AIDS sufferers who have spent all their savings and retirement on drugs after enjoying that wonderful San Francisco lifestyle that is now killing them. Liberals just LOVE poor people as long as they don't have to see any!

I actually have friends who moved to New York City from San Francisco because it was cheaper to live there! There hasn't been a new development of single family homes in San Francisco County for something like 15 years.

[AppyPappy]

Morford is allergic to God and religion. His columns always slam people of faith.

In short, he's a bigot.