One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong…

Don’t know . There’s one Starbuck-es , and two local places here, that would have anything resembling a barrista . I’ve never been in any of ‘em. Maybe they are that bad? :)

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DocAmazing said,

April 14, 2008 at 17:22

Wow, Joe Max, a New Yorker and still a tool! Your uber-liberal neighbors must be so very proud to have you living among them! We poor stupid native Oaklanders must apologize for having a hometown that fails to live up to your expectations. After all, we apparently all voted Nader (yet somehow California’s electoral votes went to Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004…strange…) and we’re not as smart as your daughter, who can tell us the latitude and longitude of Lhasa–we just visibly oppose China’s occupation, which clearly marks us as dopes.

Meanwhile, I’m about your age (played the Mab back in the day as well), a pediatrician in a charity clinic in the Mission (and a union member–rare for a doc).

I think I prefer you uber-liberal neighbors. Less judgmental. But again, a heartfelt thanks for being around to correct me, and them, and us. We’re so gald you decided to come to town and tell us poor hicks what’s what.

Apology accepted.

Meanwhile, I’m about your age (played the Mab back in the day as well), a pediatrician in a charity clinic in the Mission (and a union member–rare for a doc).

I think I prefer you uber-liberal neighbors. Less judgmental. But again, a heartfelt thanks for being around to correct me, and them, and us. We’re so gald you decided to come to town and tell us poor hicks what’s what.

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong…

It’s been around a long time, too.

Holy See: Thou shalt speake no ill of ye churche.
Honest priest: But yon monsignore hath buggered children innumerable!
Holy See: Shushe! Hold thine tongue and all shalt be welle.

Fast forward a coupla generations, and whattaya got?
Not the best metaphor, but I hope you get the general idea.

mikey, try this iteration – “My stupidly incredulous and provincially narrow-minded fellow countrymen …”

By the way, Joe Max, we poor stupid uber-liberal Bay Area natives haven’t recently gotten around to thanking those of you who moved here from Flyover to tell us just how dumb we are for your service. So thank you. You join the proud ranks of the dot-commers who rolled into town and tried to remake it in the image of their Chapel Hill/Grosse Pointe/(insert town here) stomping grounds, and opposed rent control and bike lanes and other non-free-market abominations. Thank you again for letting us know just how far from the perfection of the rest of the nation we have fallen.

How many erroneous assumptions can one person make in a single post? Let’s count the ways.

I didn’t come to SF from Flyover. I came here from NYC. (6th Street near 2nd. This was in 1976, and I can still smell the curry.) I was born in Detroit, but left when I was nine. I lived in SF for twenty years, and now I live in Oakland (and no, not in the hills.)

I voted for rent control in SF, damn, it must have been 1978 or 79. I rent now, and always have. I ride a bike myself, not religiously, but I use the bike lane that runs along Macarthur avenue.

I’m not a dot-commer, I’m an audio engineer. I watched dot-com rise and fall, as it fucked up the rental market in the City so badly I moved to Oakland. I work for UC Berkeley, and I’m a union steward (UPTE/CWA 919).

So: not a “flyover”, not a dot-commie, not a libertarian, not a free-booting capitalist, been living here since I played in the first punk bands in North Beach, voted for rent control in SF, I use bike paths, I’m a union steward. It’s quite possible I’ve been living in the Bay Area longer than you’ve been alive, if the juvenile petulance of your reply was any indication.

That’s an awful lot of wrong for just one post.

THANK YOU!

No wait, Obama is a crazy Christian!

Scratch that, Obama hates religion and religious people!

Seriously wingers, make up your minds. This is getting dizzying.

I’m jumping over the bus, Evil Knievel style. Chicks dig it.

“Barack Obama thinks we Middle Class folks are bitter…???

Iraq War
Gas Prices
Airlines
Motorists
Politicians
Barristas
Molesters
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name it, I probably hate it…..!!!”

Posted by: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

:-))))))))

Q: ARE Americans bitter?
If no, then Obama should apologize & STFU.
If yes, then McCain, Clinton & the Talking Head Brigade should extrude their crania from their warm, dark pungent hiding places long enough to apologize to Obama & the voters … & STFU.

From what I’ve seen & heard, this one’s a big resounding YES.