Who Reads Yesterday's Papers?
The gang at SFWall.net is in full rant mode over the fact that after Ross Mirkarimi passed legislation that set certain zoning regulations for pot clubs, he is now in the process of trying to pass legislation to change the zoning regulations for one of the pot clubs that was going to be closed for not being up to snuff with the regulations. The problem in all this, of course, is that it looks a little bad to pass legislation establishing certain rules, then try and pass legislation that circumvents those rules. The club in question is the Vapor Trail on Haight which has become one of the most well known medical marijuana clubs due to it's friendly atmosphere, friendly owners, and for posting flyers up and down Haight street and other outlying areas. It's a good thing Ross is pushing this legislation through too because between the four pot clubs existing on the Haight and all the hippies roaming the streets, it's just so hard to get dope on the Haight.
-Speaking of dope, a rally was held at U.N Plaza on Monday to protest the Feds shutting down club HopeNet. The owners of the club, Cathy and Steve Smith, handed out free marijuana to about twenty people who showed up with medicinal marijuana cards. Daly and Mirkarimi both attended the rally and spoke in support of the Smiths. Gavin, Mark Leno, Carole Migden, and Kamala Harris had spokesmen read their words of support as they all had previous engagements, and by "previous engagements" they meant, "not wanting to be photographed being anywhere near people smoking dope."
-And speaking of Daly, among legislation passed this week by the Board of Supes was legislation allowing supervisors to maintain a blog on official city Web sites. The legislation is in response to Matier & Ross getting their panties in a bunch over Daly's blog being on the SFGov site. We're glad Daly is able to keep his blog up-- where else would we go for such brilliantly snarky commentary on the Brangelina baby?
-In the Chron's Insight section, they had a column written by a foreign policy expert describing the foreign policy lessons he's learned from his golden retriever (pictured above). Which got us thinking. If the dog is supposedly this font of foreign policy knowledge, maybe we should make him in charge of our foreign policy? And it's not necessarily because he could probably do a better job than our current foreign policy team. Let's face it, the biggest problem facing our country is one of perception-- everyone hates us because for the most part, whenever they show someone official from our country, they look like some cut-rate villain from a B-movie thriller. What better way to try and come off as being more cute and cuddly than putting someone in position of power who is cute and cuddly? How could anyone hate us when we did something? Just look at that picture? Is that the Cutest. Thing. Ever? We could say screw it and blow up the rest of the Middle East and the rest of the world would just go "awwww, look, he just rolled over!" And if they didn't, why they're puppy haters and who would support people who hate puppies? Al Queda's support would totally dry up in days.