Matt Baume

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• Commented on Would You Vote To Ban Critical Mass? Chief Gascon Thinks You Would!
  I am going to sneak into SoMatar's apartment once a month and leave a decomposed cat on his kitchen table. It will smell bad and take about a half hour to clean up. But I'm only going to do it...
• Commented on Appealing Events: "Voluptuary" Brings New Fun to Earthy Pleasures
  Extry Extry, Local Reporter Fails to Titillate Jason Bentley, Stop the Presses...
• Commented on SF MTA's New Budget Cut Plan: Almost All Buses Will Show Up Less Often, If At All
  Also: I think it was Greg who said that "Transit First apparently means that transit is the first to get cut." There's nothing in here about meters. This would be baffling, since we know that San Francisco is losing money...
• Commented on SF MTA's New Budget Cut Plan: Almost All Buses Will Show Up Less Often, If At All
  @Xenu: Muni does get a federal bailout. Every year they get cash from Washington (and Sacramento, and City Hall.) They also got a bunch of ARRA funds. It's just, you know, still not enough. Every transit agency in the country...
• Commented on Watching As The Chronicle's Stance On Gay Equality Starts To Turn
  The Singing Mum is right. It seems like every time I start talking about the Global Zionist Conspiracy, people call me anti-Semitic. How intolerant of them!...
• Commented on SF Chronicle Columnist: Bigotry Not So Bad
  That's comparison only works if you feel that anti-Semitism and Judaism are both equally-matched, equally-valid, and equally-acceptable. Which, like any kind of prejudice, they're not....
• Commented on SF Chronicle Columnist: Bigotry Not So Bad
  For this particular piece, the Appeal hardly even typed anything at all....
• Commented on Muni Employees' Salaries Consume Around 80% of Agency's Expenses
  Now that is quite a bit harder to find. Individual salaries are kept secret, mostly at the behest of the union. The only info I was able to find was the aggregate of ALL the salaries....
• Posted Muni Employees' Salaries Consume Around 80% of Agency's Expenses to News
  Nobody likes losing their job -- especially Muni drivers, who have it pretty sweet. But times are tough, thanks largely to local and state...
• Commented on Have You Seen (Too Much Of) This Man?
  Well, she's a woman now....
• Commented on BART To Pantless Riders "It's called indecent exposure," Threatens Arrest
  The little kids and grannies are more than welcome to join in the pantslessness....
• Commented on Muni Dead Pool: Will Your Line Be Cut Next?
  The list is ordered from most to least risk....
• Commented on Muni Dead Pool: Will Your Line Be Cut Next?
  We'll know in a couple of months how much money Muni is saving with the service cuts. They're keeping very close tabs on that. I do believe there were layoffs recently, and will likely be more soon. But! Laying people...
• Commented on Muni Dead Pool: Will Your Line Be Cut Next?
  Of course they're still around! According to their events page, their next meeting is on July 14th, 2008....
• Posted Muni Dead Pool: Will Your Line Be Cut Next? to News
  Numerous bus lines face further cutbacks and possible elimination later this year, according to the SF Appeal's analysis of data recently supplied by Muni...
• Posted Guerrilla Graffiti Temporarily Reveals Secret Bike Box to News
  We can all recognize familiar traffic signals like a red light or a one-way sign; but what are you supposed to do with a...
• Commented on Muni Reminds Customers Still Reeling From Service Slash That Fast Pass Prices Get Jacked Up In Jan
  Worth every penny!...
• Commented on $10 Million To Be Spent On SF Anti-Emissions Program
  Oh, they're going to encourage people to use transit! Muni can't even afford to buy computers for employees who need them, but we're spending $10 million on encouragement. Because drivers must not be aware that they're allowed to take the...
• Commented on Why Won't The Lead Prop 8 Attorney Speak With The Press?
  Here's what it looks like to me: The pro-equality lawyers (that is, the anti-prop-8 lawyers) are better. They always have been. There's been a strategy on our side of effective litigation going back at least a decade, the culmination of...
• Commented on Muni Service Slash Twofer: Map Replacement Price Tag, Satisfaction Survey
  And! Why isn't Clear Channel doing it? (Or are they?)...
• Commented on Muni Service Slash Twofer: Map Replacement Price Tag, Satisfaction Survey
  I'm guessing that $9,000 doesn't include the cost of labor. Are they hiring temp workers to install the maps for three weeks, or are they pulling people out of other jobs and will therefore be shortstaffed for three weeks?...
• Commented on Marriage Equality Supporters Plan To Prove Prop 8 Is "Irrational"
  Ack it is so frustrating how these people can get away with talking such gibberish. Making life hard for gay couples does nothing to promote heterosexual relationships! Why do these people think that gays will be like, "oh, what's that,...
• Posted Party for Fashionable Nerds Cannot Compare With Harvey Milk Library Reception to Culture/Entertainment
  There are plenty of worse ways to spend a Thursday evening than in the company of an open bar, nerds, and a brisket; and...
• Commented on Ask the Appeal: How Does The 21 Hayes Muni Line Change On December 5th?
  A follow-up question! Where is the new western terminal for the 21? That is, if you want to catch the 21 and you live near the western end of the route, where should you go to hop on an idling...
• Commented on Photo Gallery: Suspected Muni Stabber Appears In Court
  Does "under medical care" equal "under psychiatric care"?...
• Commented on Chronicle's Panties Wadded Over Prospect Of Sex Tents, What About Yours?
  Is the Chronicle aware that there are buildings all over the city where people are allowed to engage in sex whenever and with whomever they wish? We call them "houses."...
• Commented on Suspected Muni Stabber Charged In Four Separate Attacks
  Assaulting someone on transit is its own type of felony? I did not know that. I wonder if "72 years to life" really means much less....
• Commented on Suspect In Muni Stabbing Had Been Detained, Released For Earlier Muni Stabbing Of 11 Year Old
  Greg made a good point via Twitter -- if Gavin had actually been here doing his job all along, actually supporting the "transit first" policy, we might not have had this stabbing at all. Or the other stabbing. Or the...
• Posted SF's Edgiest PR Firm to Hold Edgy Fashionable Geek Event for Contemporary Urban Affinities (Modern Immersive) to Culture/Entertainment
  "Stylish Techies Beware!" warns the invitation to a party next Thursday near the baseball park. They're calling it "Geek Chic, a monthly lifestyle event,"...
• Commented on If You Like Good Spelling And Grammar, Do You Hate Critical Mass?
  I do not understand the cupboard analogy. It is more like clearing off a table while everyone is in the middle of eating....