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Commented on Haight Street Whole Foods Reportedly Open For Shopping Now, Grand Opening Still Wednesday
It's alright. After all, it really is just a supermarket, nothing more, nothing less. The staff is a little overly eager and saccharine enough to give a shopper diabetes, but I'm sure that will pass once the doldrums set in....
Commented on Your Guide To The Guides: An Overview Of Endorsements For The SF Candidates
One could make a pretty wicked 3D bar graph listing each candidate and their respective rank choice endorsements...
Commented on Police Chief Perjured Himself, Says Daly, Who Wants to Eliminate His (Chief's) Job
I think Daly is confusing leadership with fascism. It is somewhat understandable seeing as how there really was no leadership during previous chief Fong's tenure....
Commented on Supes To Debate Sit/Lie Law Today
This is among the many plans over the years to clean up the Haight that will simply not work. The Haight will always be a haven for the different, the outcasts, the downtrodden, and the dreamers. This influx has it's...
Commented on Lt Gov? Not Now, Anyway: Newsom Quashes Running Rumor
Wait a minute, how can he prioritize his wife and daughter over the city?...
Commented on I Did Not See A Werewolf With A Chinese Menu In His Hand: The Wolfman
I feel like I owe it to my fraternity of hairy men to go see this movie...
Commented on Are You Losing Money On Cigarette Tax? It's OK, City Is, Too
That's too bad. I've been doing my part (read: smoking a lot more) for the cause....
Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday February 3: Girl Gang On 24th And Mission, Muni Stabbing
I didn't mean to start another "thing" with this. I'm just fascinated, sociologically if you will, with the fact that individuals disfavor classifying people by certain innate, genetic characteristics rather than others (much in the same way constitutional jurisprudence treats...
Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday February 3: Girl Gang On 24th And Mission, Muni Stabbing
@modelenoir: I do see your point from a literary POV; race doesn't add anything substantive to the story. I guess I'm of the opinion, for good or for ill, that the more (true) facts a news report lists in a...
Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday February 3: Girl Gang On 24th And Mission, Muni Stabbing
Though I might catch hell for this one, someone needs to explain to me again how reporting the gender of a suspect is different from reporting the race of a suspect. They are both facts and descriptions at their most...
Commented on Should SF's Smoking Ban Extend To Bars' "Smoking Patios"?
Damnit, forgot to close the bold tag. Sorry all....
Commented on Should SF's Smoking Ban Extend To Bars' "Smoking Patios"?
I've always found it only slightly less than hypocritical that people are so concerned about the effects of second-hand smoke to their health at a bar, a place in which you go to drink a liquid that is harmful to...
Commented on Haight Bullies Foiled By Foot Patrols Or Sit-Lie Laws? Supe Aims To Find Out
Aren't there already foot patrols down Haight Street? On numerous occasions I've seen a pair of officers walking the beat (as opposed to beating the walkers)....
Commented on Crime And Punishment: Tasers, Reality TV, And Fingerprints
Not only would the police taser (sp? tase?) more people, I think cops should taser more people irrespective of whether or not they are being threatened. This is not because I want the cops to trample our constitutional rights, commit...
Commented on Crime Blotter, Friday Jan. 22: North Beach Street Fight!
You know, the real bummer in all of this is not whether reporting the fact of someone's race is racist, but the fact that SFPD can't seem to catch a criminal, regardless of race. Depending on who instigated that North...
Commented on Study: The Average SF Wedding Costs $45 K, Which, What?
Consumerist called it a "terrifying infographic." Awesome. I don't see how this is supposed to be surprising to anyone, given the wealth and flash here in San Francisco. And the wedding industry is no different from any other consumer racket....
Commented on Crime Blotter, Monday Jan. 11: Sunset Car Arson, Pac Heights Carjacking, Haight Mugging
Yay, a mugging on my block! With a gun, woohoo!...
Commented on Mission Blogger Provides Us With Impetus To Prepare Emergency Kit
"it's the guy with the can of beans who ends up king" . . . that no one wants to cozy up to....
Commented on SF Views: Sweet Melissa Explains All Those Crazy New Proposed Laws
I'd vote for the bald eagle enclosure, A.K.A. Eagle Island. It's Crusoesque and your chances of death seem minimal. Bonus: You can train the eagles to do you bidding!...

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Kevin Montgomery commented on Study: The Average SF Wedding Costs $45 K, Which, What?
"100 people every minute pushed into poverty by economic crisis" [1] If I ever meet a girl that insists on spending $45k on something so fickle as a wedding, I'm going to throw her on the street, mourn the loss of my relationship at Bender's, and give my money to Oxfam. [1] http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-09-24/100-people-every-minute-pushed-poverty-economic-crisis...
John Murphy commented on Study: The Average SF Wedding Costs $45 K, Which, What?
Kevin - you are pointing your finger at the wrong demon. The $45,000 wedding provides work for the better part of 100 people, when you add up florists, preachers, musicians, caterer, waitstaff, facility, dressmakers, and the dollars from all that wine trickle down pretty nicely. Even with the costly flowers and chicken picatta ingredients a wedding is a good transfer of wealth from the top to the bottom. The biggest profit margin sans labor goes to the facility owner. Add it all up and you might get a better percentage transfer to people who need the money than if you...
cedichou commented on Study: The Average SF Wedding Costs $45 K, Which, What?
I think the key word here is "average." Some people can blow shitloads of money on weddings and tilt the average to $45k for the rest of us. It's like the average net worth of Bill Gates and 99 penniless regular starving Joes being $580,000,000: the distribution is skewed. The methodology seems funky as well, it looks like they compute the average price for a long list of items that won't necessarily be part of the average wedding. It's like defining a restaurant meal to be a bottle of wine, an appetizer, an entree, a dessert, a coffee, a digestive...
Belgand commented on Haight Street Whole Foods Reportedly Open For Shopping Now, Grand Opening Still Wednesday
I live in the neighborhood, but I can't afford it so I still won't be shopping there. It would have been nice if Trader Joe's opened or perhaps a large local market that might have had a chance at affordable prices, but it isn't so life will go on like when it was simply an empty lot. Hopefully Haight Street Market will finish their expansion soon and turn into a store where I can hope to do some shopping. Right now their extremely limited meat selection of exclusively Marin Sun Farms (i.e. ludicrously expensive) means it also isn't practical. I...

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