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if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Welcome to My Nightmare

by Lee

There’s a great article in the San Francisco Crapicle which is sort of a guide for conservatives living in San Francisco.  Here’s a few of my favorites.

• You’re not angry because Al Gore’s not the president; you’re angry because you think Ralph Nader should have won.
• Your kids find not only old toys in playground sandboxes but also used needles and condoms.
• You’re an unemployed dot-com refugee and college dropout with no job prospects, and you think it’s the president who is stupid.
• There is an extreme housing shortage, but the political establishment responds by not allowing builders to build.
• The district attorney loves to release criminals but is hot to arrest and prosecute the police chief and the top police brass.
• Your family is making more than $125,000 a year, but you can’t find a decent apartment, and you can’t afford a house.
• Your contractor is gay, but your hairdresser is straight.
• The only flags being waved by marchers at parades have rainbows on them.
• A parade for Cinco de Mayo, Mexico’s national holiday, gets a bigger turnout than the one for Veteran’s Day
• Each morning, while drinking a latte at Starbucks, you review a complete list of companies you need to boycott.
• You enjoy books about the struggles of smaller, independent bookstores that are systematically being taken over by huge corporations—and you buy them at Barnes and Noble.
• You’re not snobbish—you just happen to honestly think it’s only San Franciscans who know anything about politics, literature, love, food, fashion, culture and art, except for that high-brow director Michael Moore, of “Roger and Me” fame, who hails from Flint, Mich.

That last one, as you can imagine, was my favorite.  Read the article, there’s tons more.  Just a taste of what my life here is like, for those of you who have never been here.

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