Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Californians love to brag about how productive and rich they are. San Francisco should be the richest city in the world right now given that most of the AI companies have set up shop within the city limits and the founders/executives of these companies also live within city limits, e.g., Sam Altman (worth nearly $2 … Read more
San Francisco leftists met the recall election which tossed out three woke school board members by over 70% with the grace and dignity with which radicals greet all rejections. “If you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence,” Commissioner Gabriela Lopez tweeted. “Don’t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this.” Lopez, who infamously vomited … Read more
Bay Area politicians want federal infrastructure dollars but can’t keep the rails or streets safe. The promise of federal money never fails to move San Francisco Bay Area politicians to action. With the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure bill likely to pass, the mayors of Oakland, San Jose, and San Francisco penned an open letter arguing … Read more
San Francisco is not in need of a bold, imaginative plan. It is in need of government — basic government, government of the oldest and most fundamental kind, government of the sort understood by everybody from Machiavelli to Hobbes to the decidedly lesser figure of Rudy Giuliani, who was a pretty effective mayor before he … Read more
Welcome to San Francisco’s latest idiocy, a new experiment in governance where everything is allowed but nothing is permitted. A paradox, you might say, but take a walk down Market Street, down that great avenue in a great city in a great nation, and note the desolation of the empty streets, the used needles tossed … Read more
Pharmacy giant Walgreens has closed its 10th store in the San Francisco area, prompting residents to blame rampant shoplifting caused by the city’s soft-on-crime policies. The store is set to permanently shut its doors on March 17, and the move has drawn an online petition against the closure, which accrued over 200 signatures at the … Read more
San Francisco’s hotels and motels are slowly emptying of the homeless people that the city placed there during the Covid-19 pandemic. The city simply can’t afford the $260 per night, per person, price tag of housing approximately 2,000 people—just a portion of the estimated 8,000 people who live on the street. Where will they go? … Read more
Gilles Desaulniers moved to San Francisco 40 years ago, settling in the ‘friendly, quaint and affordable’ city after running out of cash while driving from Canada down the West Coast of America. Today he runs a grocery store filled with fresh fruit, vegan snacks and organic wines typical of this famously liberal Californian city. But … Read more