QUITE CHILLY were the remarks Examiner columnist Debby Morse directed at Noe Valley in a column Nov. 7. She allowed as how in San Francisco "each neighborhood has its walk....
"Take Noe Valley. Was there ever a place with more sense of entitlement? Liberal politics and every baby raised by the whole village add up to a very special kind of walk," wrote Morse. "Natural-fiber-wearing folks float slowly down the sidewalks of 24th Street, congregating outside coffeehouses and blocking the way, to the consternation of other walkers (from other neighborhoods, no doubt). Strings of them self-absorbedly ooze across intersections like a long-chain molecule, never giving waiting cars a chance to move through before yet another one of them steps into the crosswalk."
Well, okay, that might have the ring of truth, but then Debby takes it a step further: "Many Noe Valley walkers push babies in strollers, often using them as battering rams in crowded situations. Shockingly, these baby strollers are rolled out into crosswalks in front of oncoming cars, and the indignant parent then steps into the intersection with a look of outrage that the monster behind the wheel should have the despicable audacity to drive where there are children present."
Puh-leeze. Do you sense a little child envy? Oops, I didn't say that.
When I lived in the big city I saw this all the time. Young mothers pushing their baby strollers against a red light/do not cross light. Very stupid. What do they think they are teaching their young children? How to get to get run over by a car?
While fighting the honorable struggle for the unborn, remember that these monsters in the media pull out the arguement months before election season to bring out the emotion in the pro-choice moderates that wouldn't vote otherwise.