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• Commented on Internet Etiquitteist: CNN Stole My Bad Internet Advice Column Idea (Part One)
  Not sure I see the purpose of Mr. Sankin's blog posts. I suspect he doesn't either....
• Commented on Poll: Tradition Or Progress For Stow Lake Boathouse?
  So tired of replacing things we love with things that are good for us. I am really starting to hate the Disney-fication of San Francisco......
• Commented on City Attorney Still Fighting Supe Alioto-Pier's Reelection Bid
  Agree wholeheartedly re your final three sentences....
• Commented on City Attorney Still Fighting Supe Alioto-Pier's Reelection Bid
  Seems like Herrera and Jeff Adachi are in a race to see who can become more annoying before an election....
• Commented on Board Sends Real Estate Transfer Tax to Voters; Drops Payroll, Parking Taxes
  The concept that "San Franciscans are subsidizing businesses with our taxes" is hard to support and generally speaks of the same re-treaded anti-corporate diatribe that the SF Bay Guardian has been running since I moved here in the 80s. The...
• Commented on Board Sends Real Estate Transfer Tax to Voters; Drops Payroll, Parking Taxes
  Well at least the more ludicrous tax schemes were dropped. I wonder how many folks pay a transfer tax on property sales over $5 million? Chris, maybe the Treasurer/Collector or Tax Assessor knows the percentage of homes in SF that...
• Commented on Smart Meters Here To Take Your Credit Card, Charge You As Much As $18/Hr
  Last time I checked, "civic parking" wasn't "free", and it wasn't "10 cents an hour" and has not been for years. However, as in all revenue plans, there is a price point at which people are entitled to say "enough"...
• Commented on Smart Meters Here To Take Your Credit Card, Charge You As Much As $18/Hr
  It costs about $8 per hour to park in the Embarcadero Center, one of SF's most expensive garages. Why would anyone pay the same rate to park on a street where your car is more likely to get broken into?...
• Commented on LGBT Center Restaurant And Bar Expected To Make Them $100K
  Plus, this: ""This is a modest proposal to help the center have financial flexibility," said Boe Hayward, an aide to Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who proposed the zoning change. The change will be "exciting not only for the center, but also...
• Commented on LGBT Center Restaurant And Bar Expected To Make Them $100K
  I think if you review the earlier post (several months ago) on this topic, the question was whether the City should commit public funds to bail out a private enterprise that had shown no ability to manage its finances. Here's...
• Commented on Judge: District 2 Supe Alioto-Pier Not Termed Out, Can Run For One More Term
  Really, would anybody give M.A.P. the time of day if her middle name was "Smith"? Doubtful. Great at saying what she thinks people want to hear, short on leadership....
• Commented on Internet Etiquetteist: I Want My Baby Off Facebook
  This is borderline--no actually, it is fully--offensive. Apparently the purpose of this column is to flame people under the guise of netiquette. I tried to appreciate it as snark, but it wasn't even funny so it pretty much failed on...
• Commented on Supe Renews Push To Get SF Into Ganja Growing Game
  Just wondering why people who easily can buy herb on the down low (i.e., tax free) would buy it from an "official" or legal source and thus agree to pay taxes on it. I mean, if you can get it...
• Commented on Report: SF Stands To Make $1.4 Billion If We Host America's Cup Boat Race
  In fact if you read the report, the assumptions relied on are even more absurd....
• Commented on Report: SF Stands To Make $1.4 Billion If We Host America's Cup Boat Race
  Most credible academics routinely question the revenue generated for cities from sporting events. Civic boosters will tell you that the event brings $xyz dollars; these are wild guesses from people who are not in a position to do much more...
• Commented on SFPD Issuing More Tickets, But Not For Reason You Might Expect
  There is a practice known as "duckponding". That's where cops monitor an intersection where drivers are likely to bend the rules. And then the SFPD writes ticket after ticket. The best spot to watch this is at the corner of...
• Commented on SF Store Scanners Subject To Fees, 7/11s, Safeways To Pony Up
  Could this City be any more hostile to business? Every business owner that I speak to about SF has the same complaint: nickle and dimed to death by fees, taxes and paper work. This kills the growth of business and...
• Commented on 100 Businesses Damaged in Oakland, Who Should Pay? BART? The Vandals?
  Why is it BART's responsibility to make sure that people exercise their constitutional right to free speech without destroying property?...
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: Why Does Kamala Harris Have A Driver?
  Agree that she has been traveling with security for a long time. I attended a Giants game three years ago and was seated next to a member of her detail. She gets death threats from people in jail all the...
• Commented on If Voters Approve Adachi's Pension Reform, Budget-Saving Wage Concessions from Police, Fire Are Annulled
  Gav to Adachi: checkmate....
• Commented on SFPD Raids Laurel Heights, Richmond Pot Grow Houses
  I'm no expert on growing, but it would seem to me that putting a grow house a block away from Laurel Village Shopping Center, UCSF, and California Pacific Med Center, is not too discreet. That is why all the grow...
• Commented on More Demographics On Those Arrested Thursday Night: Mostly Male, Several Parolees
  Second Briana's comments. KRON started its coverage yesterday afternoon by reporting on its blog that "no riots" had been reported. Way to be balanced. I guess it goes without saying that some of the terminology ("riot" "looting") was inflammatory and...
• Commented on Video, Slideshows: Liveblog Of Oscar Grant Trial Verdict, Response
  I feel like I need to explain...the trouble with KRON's comment is that it is pregnant with an expectation (that a "riot" would follw the verdict). Personally, I think reporting that there's no "riot" going on (thank you Sly Stone)...
• Commented on Video, Slideshows: Liveblog Of Oscar Grant Trial Verdict, Response
  What an absurd observation from KRON: "There are no reports of riots." Feeding frenzy canceled, please go home. Like the old cross examination trick question: when did you stop beating your wife? What happens when cameras come out to film...
• Commented on In "Willie's World," BART Cops Don't Need Guns; BART Disagrees
  Willie is spot on. There is no reason for a BART security officer to carry a deadly weapon. They are not adequately trained, for one thing. SFPD cadets undergo stress tests to avoid pulling a gun at the wrong moment....
• Commented on Adachi Taps Venture Capital, Slaps Labor With Delivery of 76k Signatures
  Someone please inform me how and why a criminal defense attorney has any business putting pension reform on a ballot. Unless of course, said criminal defense attorney was sticking his nose where it doesn't belong because he wants to be...
• Commented on Plan To Open Target At Geary And Masonic Moves Forward: Could Open In 2012
  One of SF's most desolate corners; perfect for Big Box Retail. The City actually misses the Sears that formerly occupied that space, because it was one of the few affordable appliance stores around. It's a windy, dreary spot. If only...
• Commented on Vendors Begrudgingly Adhere To Sugary Drink Ban On City Property
  What a joke. Here's an idea: how about we make our own decisions what to drink and what not to drink, and the C&CSF can stay out of my diet? Soon Newsom will be telling us what time to go...
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: What Do Those Yellow Circles Mean?
  Also, see this: color coding chart from USA: http://www.usanorth.org/...
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: What Do Those Yellow Circles Mean?
  For Muni operators if they are the circles I am thinking of. Usually to denote overhead wire changes....