Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 28 2008 | Filed under: Liberalism Watch
“If students really love the program, they’ll take it anyway,” - San Francisco School Board President Mark Sanchez
In another of those hastily called School Board meetings — a tactic used to ensure that JROTC supporters will be less likely to attend the meeting — the SF School Board cut the legs off the JROTC program [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch
The San Francisco Examiner online has a big section on Gay Pride Week. It reminded me of why I’ve always found gay self-identification strikingly different from all other major group identifications.
There is no doubt that people tend to try to find like people, and this is true whether they group themselves by religion, ethnicity, profession, [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 18 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article
Everybody around me was having fun, but I was not. Instead, I found the whole thing very depressing. Oh, I forgot to tell you what I’m talking about.
We went to see the crowd at the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race — a race that was started 96 years ago to commemorate the San Francisco [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Apr 19 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Liberalism Watch
Sin taxes: the unusually high taxes we impose against disfavored activities in the hope that, if the activity becomes way too expensive, people will think twice about engaging in that particular sin. Cigarettes and alcohol are the two major targets of sin taxes.
In California, in 1998, California voters passed Prop. 10, a sin [...]
