[nickcarraway]

I think this writer is living in a bubble within San Francisco. I guess he's never heard KSFO- one of the most popular radio stations.

Reminds me of a quote from Paulin Kael in 1972: She couldn't unserstand how Richard Nixon won the election- everyone she knew voted for McGovern.

[50sDad]

"They shall praise what they know is wrong."

[inquest]

I can see why FR was mentioned. He seems to have quite a fan base around here.

[finnman69]

It happens when you step off that plane in some -- let's say -- "differently evolved" part of the country and don't see a single ethnic person for four days and can't get a decent organic basil-and-goat-cheese omelet to save your life and all the theaters are playing Adam Sandler and the concept of fresh sushi means "less freezer burn than the corn dogs." Elitist? Whatever.

Ahh, all that matters in life is getting organic basil and goat cheese. Well...that and getting fisted on a regular basis. Yes Mark, we know what you think is good in life. LOL

[GSWarrior]

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

[Dog Gone]

This was painful to read. I can't believe somebody pays him to write this way.

[Publius6961]

that is, if my rabid monosyllabic gun-lickin' hate mail from, say, the psychopatriot Freeps over at freerepublic.com

This legend-in-his-own-mind has obviously been innoculated against reality.
SF as the yardstick against which "normalcy" is measured?

I've been there done that. Lived in SF many years and Marin County many years. Trust me... it didn't take long to feel at home among real people. The other 95%.

Thank God for "outside the bubble"!

[Constitution Day]

Miss Morford is all in a lather again!

[finnman69]

[Mr. Jeeves]

It happens when you step off that plane in some -- let's say -- "differently evolved" part of the country and don't see a single ethnic person for four days...

It's interesting how important this is to some people. I work with a very sweet young Vietnamese-American woman who is convinced that if she travels very far outside the Bay Area she is going to be attacked and killed by rural white Klan-types. I told her that if she is going to suffer any racial violence in her life, it will be in her own South Berkeley neighborhood and it won't be white people who do it. I don't think she was convinced. This is one of the ways Democrats keep such an iron grip on minority voters - they spread myths about how horrible the "white Republican" world is outside the little bubble they live in.

[.38sw]

Mark Morford is but one example why I won't spend a quarter to buy that stinkin' paper.

luminously progressive How lovely. I haven't gone to SF in ages, even though it's just across the bay from where I live. It's a filthy place. Aggressive panhandlers. If you get there before the merchants wash the sidewalks off with water and bleach, you have to step around drunks sleeping in doorways, puddles of pee, piles of human poop, and volumes of vomit. If you go to Golden Gate park, you have to be careful about wandering off the path. There are used hypodermic needles in the bushes, as well as human waste. I'm not sure what the homicide rate is, but it was reported last year that the SF Police only solve about 25% of the homicides. How progressive.

[liberallarry]

It's a funny article.

[Dead Dog]

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

[dirtboy]

We are a danger to the status quo, a nipple-twisted threat to the "nukular" family, a pantheistic whip on the ass of the Bible Belt, a pox on the house that oil built.

Tell you what. We'll leave you to your own devices if you quit begging us for tax dollars to shield you and your liberal friends from the consequences of your actions.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Not that Italy wasn't beautiful and culturally intoxicating, she said, but that it was, as she was painfully reminded, sexist as hell, homophobic as Rick Santorum, intolerant as Utah, what with the example of my friend's young shy half sister casually molested and possibly worse by a drunken Italian suitor and then everyone pretty much shrugging it off and brushing it aside and asking what she did to deserve it and no one standing up for the girl or smacking the dolt with a brick before castrating him with a rusty pizza cutter. Just one example.

Et tu, Juanita Broadderick?

[bert]

EarthQuake.....9.3, no stones left standing.

[CounterCounterCulture]

The most close-minded, intolerant city I have ever visited is Frisco (a.k.a., San Francisco). What would you expect from the birthplace of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple? The cult-like attitude still prevails. Somebody pass 'em the organically-correct Kool-Aid.

[Billthedrill]

I just wrote a phony note from an illiterate little kid on another thread. The whining, malapropisms, and jumbled syntax made it sound just like this piece of silliness.

I'm not so sure the "pop the bubble" metaphor is quite appropriate, but it's close. I prefer "lancing a boil."

[HamiltonJay]

San Francisco is a cesspool... it has to be one of the most filty and smelly cities I have ever visited. It's colorful I'll give you that... but all those blinding colors can't cover up the odiferous stench of urine in the streets, spent needles in the gutters and grafitti on everything in site.

The idea that SF is a utopia is comical. 300k a month just to clean up after the homeless.... Its effectively a city full of people who don't believe in personal responsibility.. and it shows.

[NormsRevenge]

Let's face it: We in S.F. live in a cultural bubble. A giant tofu-huggin' gay-lovin' lusciously fed hippie liberal sunshine-y cocoon that might as well get blasted by terrorists and die of AIDS and drop off into the ocean for all the relevance it has to the rest of the world -- that is, if my rabid monosyllabic gun-lickin' hate mail from, say, the psychopatriot Freeps over at freerepublic.com or the bilious dittoheads of lucianne.com is to be believed. honor and continue to do so. What do you do fo

Hi Mark.. I served my country with honor and distinction. What do you do for a living? They don;t actually pay you to write this drivel , do they?