The Great San Francisco Bubble (FreeRepublic Mentioned)

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

[nickcarraway]

It's that odd dumbstruck jolting feeling you get as soon as you step more than 25 miles away from this most progressive and funked-out and deeply flawed and self-consciously screwy of kaleidoscopic American urban metropoli: oh my freaking God, what is happening to the world? This is what you say. To yourself. Probably.

[GOP_1900AD]

Hey Morford YOU FREAK! Get a clue! It would probably shock your hippy dippy drug addled brain to know that there are (long unused) rifle ranges in the basements of high schools in the SFUSD. Not only that, but in the Sunset there still are normal, straight white people who would love to punch your lights out. And finally, a question ... have you ever heard of, let alone gone to, the Grand National Rodeo?

There are many NATIVE SAN FRANCISCANS who utterly despise you and your ilk for taking over and destroying what was once a great city!

Mark

[sweetliberty]

BTW, I hear that Baghdad Bob has a new gig in California.

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[sweetliberty]

I always seem to run across you on these weirdo threads. Some people just gravitate toward absurdity. You must be missing the standard Friday morning ZOT thread. Oops.....what does that say about me?

[AppyPappy]

I had a gay frat bro who moved to SF. After the last big quake, he left claiming that it wasn't an earthquake, it was like the Earth was flushing.

[.38sw]

ROFL!! He should be on Red Doofus' staff as well. He's been hiring.

I've been OK. But - allergy season is upon us, so I've been seen with red, puffy eyes for the past couple of weeks.

[GSWarrior]

Here's an interesting newsclip I just found on the web. I think it's from 2001.

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2001/mar01/mar26/4_thurs/news8thursday.html

SFGate suspends staffers over sex column

SFGate.com, the web site of the San Francisco Chronicle, has suspended three members of its staff in a flap over an over-the-top column. The piece’s author, Mark Morford, writes a short daily column, called the Morning Fix, that takes a caustic look at off-the-wall news items. But this particular piece crossed the line, in the opinion of Robert Cauthorn, the Chronicle’s vice president for digital media. Morford chose to write about an incident in Philadelphia in which a 24-year-old teaching intern is accused of performing a sex act upon a 13-year-old boy while his 14-year-old friend looked on. Morford wrote that he felt the experience might not really be a traumatic one for a teenage boy. Cauthorn disapproved of the column, which went out in an email to 13,000 people that morning. The column was pulled from the web site and from the rest of SFGate’s morning emails. SFGate’s news and features editors have been suspended without pay. Morford will be paid during his involuntary absence because he belongs to a union.

[Southack]

Poor Mark, he's only now beginning to realize that California in general, and San Francisco in particular, is no longer leading the nation in setting trends, but rather, that California is lagging the nation's return to Conservatism.

What will he whine about when GWB wins New York and possibly even California in 2004, that everyone has gone mad but him?!

[sweetliberty]

I'm afraid I wouldn't cope well at all living in the land of fruits, nuts and flakes. But I am glad we have a Gideon's army of FReepers around out there working to bring California back to the real world. I sure wouldn't want to trade places with you. Of course, I don't expect it could be much closer to impossible than trying to have an impact on corrupt RAT politics in Arkansas. We all have our crosses to bear.

[finnman69]

Morford chose to write about an incident in Philadelphia in which a 24-year-old teaching intern is accused of performing a sex act upon a 13-year-old boy while his 14-year-old friend looked on. Morford wrote that he felt the experience might not really be a traumatic one for a teenage boy.

Ohhhhhh, Mark is one of those NAMBLA types huh.

[GSWarrior]

Could be....the article doesn't state the intern's gender.

[bethelgrad]

what was it about SF that drew so many hippies back in the 60's? why there instead of somewhere else?

[TC Rider]

Mark probably wouldn't care for the Raleigh/Durham area. Though there is quite a racial mix, plenty of gays over in Carrboro and scattered about.

First off, I'm sure he'd miss the constant smell of urine as he walked our streets.

He'd miss the camaraderie of every third person on the street hitting him up for spare change.

He'd absolutely piss himself if he knew how many around here have CCWs and pack a handgun.

Our area lacks rent controls and homes can be built without papal dispensations from the local enviro wacko's, thus there is plenty of housing and the prices fluctuate like a free market should.

Nope, not his kind of place at all. No bathhouses.

[knak]

Didn't someone say an earthquake or something would make LA and San Fran fall into the ocean someday? Is that supposed to be anytime soon? One can only hope!

[knak]

catch

[TXnMA]

A true San Francisco experience:

Several years ago, while driving to DFW for a flight to SFO, I was chatting via 2 meter Ham radio with another Texan. His parting words were, Watch yourelf; those people out there are wierd!

That afternoon, a local repairman came through my SFO hotel room -- replacing the TV cable. (Some genius had stapled the carpet through all the cables on my floor.)

When I asked him if he knew where I could buy a book to read that evening, he directed me to a bookstore a few blocks away. Then he said, "If I were you I'd be sure to be back in the hotel before dark. Watch yourelf; those people out there are wierd!

[hattend]

Make me blow coffee all over my computer screen. Thanks for the laugh!

[Constitution Day]

Thank you, thank you!
I'll be doing 3 shows a night at down at the Holiday Inn lounge.

[AbsoluteJustice]

Finny YOU ROCK BRO!!!!!!! LMFAO every damned pic on here makes me almost cry!!!!!!!!

[Constitution Day]

Ooops! Delete that extra "AT".

[section9]

Morford's problem isn't his writing.

That's pathetic enough. Any asshole can string run-on sentences together and call it a column. Indeed, post-modernists do it all the time. No, Morford's crimes are not his own. Rather, it's the fact that his editors give him any space at all that is the true offense against humanity.

Granted, his is an opinion column, but there is no appeal to reason, nothing save hate and disdain for those who disagree with him, based on nothing more than his opinions of the issues of the day. But I sense no editorial control here, as if the Online Chronicle has an absentee editor who, like the Maytag repairman, is always asleep.

Face it, people, Morford gets a rise out of us because he is very inventive in calling us names. That is all he can do. That is all he knows how to do (well, that and inventing more bad names to call us). He couldn't argue his way out of a paper bag. But you have to understand, he doesn't need to. He lives in the Republic of Hate and calls it tolerant.

Mark Morford is yelling into an echo chamber filled with like minded people who only know how to vote yes. You know them, don't you? They were the ones purchasing The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion from the dudes from A.N.S.W.E.R. at the Peace Demo last March.

Be Seeing You,

Chris