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• Commented on Ask The Straight Guy: Friendships With Women, How Orientation's Like Doritos
  Great article, but cooler is the comparative, not superlative. Superlative is most cool or coolest. I feel like and am a dick for posting that....
• Commented on BART To "Revisit" Food And Drinks Ban For Trains?
  It might not be such a big deal if the folks that designed the thing, in their infinite wisdom, weren't such huge fans of cloth seats on public transportation. The number one feature of a public transport vehicle should be...
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: Can Stores Charge You To Use A Credit Card?
  You make a good point on the rewards and miles. My understanding is that merchants pay a lot if not all of that, so the better the rewards on your card, the worse it is for the merchant. AmEx is...
• Commented on Sit/Lie Lost In Haight, Won In Pac Heights, Seacliff, West of Twin Peaks
  Sniffy, You mean when the article mentioned that the vote was "1406 against to 1275 in favor", that those people were not thinking the same? Thanks for clearing up what I always (incorrectly) thought was a very clear concept: that...
• Commented on Daly's Dive Dead: Dispute With Property Owner Ends Supe's Publican Dream
  i am bummed out. i was wishing him well. even haters gotta admin that this would have been a fun thing to watch play out. and i was on the free drinks list... dammit....
• Commented on Cigarette Sales Ban Expansion Moves One Step Closer To Approval
  "A pharmacy is a place you go to get healthy,". Also, it's for people to buy over prescribed anti-depressants and mood altering drugs, Cheetos, and boner pills. Many things have multiple uses. While I'm for smoking reduction, these comments are...
• Commented on Have Questions On How Chris Daly's Going To Run His Bar? We Have Answers.
  This is great. I was really bummed to see the pace of the BT article go from somewhat interesting to just complaining. I don't know enough to be surprised or not, but It's bizarre that the Times wouldn't have tried...
• Commented on Proposed Taxi Light Changes Could Help You Hail A Cab
  Why can't the light on just mean "OK for Pickup" and off mean "You're on your own"? Why use two different colors? Installing new bulbs and controllers for the proposed system seems a lot more complicated than disconnecting the wire...
• Favorited Chronicle, Law Professor They Publish Convinces Us To Hate Gays, Too on News
• Commented on The Mega-Guide to Everyone's June 2010 Election Endorsements: The Propositions
  This is a great resource. Thanks for compiling it. My only suggestion would be to include the actual proposition names with the proposition letter/number. Thanks, Mark...
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Are Not Sure If They Like: The Sit/Lie Law
  "Wasn't that crazy mean homeless man exactly who the sit/lie law is supposed to protect me from? But instead it was almost like he was on citizen's patrol, because he enforced the sit/lie law on me. " This is a...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Tuesday March 2: Seriously, I'm Going To Start Walking Around With A Zach Morris Phone
  Well, If you don't start indicating the suspect's hipsterness on a scale of 1-10, I'm going to quit paying all this money I am charged to read this website....
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Tuesday March 2: Seriously, I'm Going To Start Walking Around With A Zach Morris Phone
  Sorry... didn't mean to imply that you'd look like a hipster, or that you are a hipster, just that the Zach Morris phone would be coveted by hipsters, and you'd have to watch out for them. Again, I dearly apologize...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Tuesday March 2: Seriously, I'm Going To Start Walking Around With A Zach Morris Phone
  If you get a Zach Morris phone, you'll have another problem: hipsters....
• Commented on Experts: With Brown Entry, Gov's Race Could Be "nail biter"
  Did anyone else here on KQED's California Report, after they mentioned that Jerry Brown would be declaring his candidacy today they used a quick clip of Dead Kennedys' "California Über Alles" as the segue into the next story. Well played....
• Commented on SF On Manhunt For Pillow Fight Organizers To Bill Them $35K For Cleanup
  ps. those numbers are specifically for service employees....
• Commented on SF On Manhunt For Pillow Fight Organizers To Bill Them $35K For Cleanup
  Wil: I think that's less of an indication that public sector employees are overpaid than an indication that private sector employees are underpaid. Though I'd guess they could probably meet in the middle somewhere. edit: That report is interesting. I...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Friday Feb. 26: Life Threatening Face Punch
  3 arrests out of 5 incidents is pretty good these days....
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: Knowing How To Ride The Bus
  http://www.munihaiku.com/wp/?p=868...
• Commented on Jukeboxin' Adventure to NOWHERE
  Bummer. The Northstar Cafe and Shanghai Kelly's both have old-style jukeboxes if you're running out of material. http://thenorthstarsf.com/ http://shanghaikellys.com/...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday Feb. 10: Muni Mugging, Market Street Carjacking
  the refund comment is funny every time....
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday February 3: Girl Gang On 24th And Mission, Muni Stabbing
  Kinda with you, though I'd disagree that gender and race are equal innate genetic characteristics, sociologically anyway. They're issues that can be discussed together, but are very different issues. Neither is less or more important, simply different, and equating them...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday February 3: Girl Gang On 24th And Mission, Muni Stabbing
  awesome....
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday February 3: Girl Gang On 24th And Mission, Muni Stabbing
  Here were my feelings about it in reply to someone on 1/25's blotter. Do you feel it's a valid point? from: http://sfappeal.com/news/2010/01/crime-blotter-monday-jan-25-pacific-heights-hot-prowl-north-beach-gang-fight-serious-shooting-at-16t-comments.php Wil: "/me waits for someone to complain that mentioning the gender of involved parties is sexist." Modelenoir: "The...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Wednesday Jan. 27: Slashed In The Face With Scissors
  What? As far as store type... if it's not in the incident report, then it most likely won't show up here unless Eve goes out of her way to include it. Race was excluded as an trial to see how...
• Commented on Mayor's Office Responds To Supe's Statement That His Jobs Plan = "Bailouts For Rich Companies"
  Paul: preach. Also, allowing the Mayor's Office, in its current mania, to appear before a committee and talk up all these feel-good things without any supporting facts or evidence, is irresponsible. The Mayor's Office talks a big game, and I...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Tuesday Jan. 26: Similar MO Mission Muggings
  Bloom: To your point, would you prefer that Eve quit posting the blotter altogether? I like the map. Yesterday would have been a better example, but no complaints about having little crime to report. In some instances, I think it...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Monday Jan. 25: Pacific Heights Hot Prowl, North Beach Gang Fight, Serious Shooting At 16th And Potrero
  View Crime Blotter for Monday, January 25th in a larger map...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Monday Jan. 25: Pacific Heights Hot Prowl, North Beach Gang Fight, Serious Shooting At 16th And Potrero
  The argument to exclude race was less an issue of political correctness and more about overall relevancy. Eve included the race of an individual in Friday's blotter (http://sfappeal.com/news/2010/01/crime-blotter-friday-jan-22-north-beach-street-fight.php) because it was complemented with more information. From what I gather race...
• Commented on Crime Blotter, Friday Jan. 22: North Beach Street Fight!
  I don't think anyone intended to call it racism, just point out that race is irrelevant in most of these incidents. You do make a good point in that many of these crimes go unresolved, and that is a real...