Posted on 05/25/2003 3:09:08 AM PDT by sarcasm
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After an eight-year experiment in communal living that included a recovering drug addict and a renowned philosopher as roommates, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown is going conventional.
He's putting his cavernous, corrugated metal-clad loft on the market -- for a cool $4.37 million -- and moving in with his longtime girlfriend, Gap executive Anne Gust, to an apartment one-tenth the size of his current digs in a decidedly less upscale neighborhood.
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Indeed it did, Jerry, indeed it did. But can a $4.3 million loft the size of an aircraft hanger with "a lot of empty rooms" really be considered "commune-living?"
Jerry Brown is a lot smarter than most people. He's even showing signs of rejecting liberalism. That is a huge step, given his history, and indicates that he may have enough intelligence to let reason overcome liberal emotionalism.
Well he's certainly savvier than your average liberal. For example, he knows to shack up with a corporate executive instead of some unemployed flower-child from the 60s. Not to mention rock stars (Linda Ronstadt). This guy is a gigolo's gigolo. (But John Kerry still has him beat.)
Smart at spinning philosophy, and discussing all the incredible problems of point A in excruciating detail and then rapsodizing on all the gloriousness of point B.
But he never figured out how to go from point A to point B.
In other words, he was a loser.
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