Who Reads Yesterday's Papers?
-After raising prices and decreasing fares, you'd think that with ridership going up, everything in MUNI-land would be copacetic, right? Wrong. Those ever increasing gas prices are affecting MUNI in that after all that number crunching, spreadsheet summing, and budget rearranging, they still might be four to five million in the red. Also causing a budget crunch is the fact that MUNI is receiving less money in parking fines than they had expected. Yep, the very fact that more people are getting out of their cars and taking MUNI is actually hurting MUNI. Kind of ironic, don't cha think?
-With the sale of St. Brigid's to the Academy of Art a foregone conclusion, the Catholic Archdiocese and the Art Academy is in the process of getting the place ready. This Friday, they tried to remove religious artifacts from the church but were blocked by the former parishioners of the church who formed a human chain to prevent their removal. The former parishioners said the artifacts are as much part of the church as the church and so should get the same landmark status as the church. This despite the fact the it's owned not by the church, but The Church (the Catholic one). The Church actually tried to pull a fast one on this and hoped to move the artifacts before the Board of Supervisors could weigh in and make more of a mess out of it. All we can say is save the Church Gnome!
Image of the Church Gnome from SFGate
-The Board of Supes were supposed to pass their medicinal marijuana bill this week but couldn't hammer out the final details. They'll try again this week. One of the big holdups is that with the inclusion of rules limiting where they could be set up, such as not near schools, it became obvious that the area most of the clubs would be allowed in would be the SOMA area, as well as Portrero and Bayview. This didn't make Chris Daly happy and everyone wants a happy Chris Daly. One of the rules that was negotiated is limiting the amount of marijuana one person can purchase a day from one pound to half-a-pound. That's a lot of dope. By the way, the Bay Guardian has a story this week about people being busted for selling "medicinal marijuana" at street fairs. The people busted, of course, all maintain that they're selling to people who have medical marijuana cards. Which doesn't quite explain those medicinal brownies we got at the Haight Street Fair.
-Speaking of the Bay Guardian, do you want to be able to write like them? Wanna pick up progessive types wearing Free Mumia buttons and reading the Socialist Newspaper at used bookstores? Well, this site is for you: Progressive Truth Generator. Yes, just punch a button and you too can come up with progessive rhetoric that'll make you the leftiest left-est in town. And for those of you not down with the movement and think Gavin’s just the wonkiest, there's also the Gavin Newsom Jargon Generator! It's funny cause it's true.
-They're young, talented, blonde, and twins! And they're Nazi's! Yep, Ladies and Gentleman-- Bakersfield's own, Prussian Blue , the Olsen Twins of the White Power movement. Man, we can't wait for their coked out, aneroxic, dating skinhead days.