Has the mainstream media become extinct in the land of free speech? For folks in Berkeley who read the New York Times, it may seem that "the Great Gray Lady" has become the modern day substitute for the Berkeley Barb. If you aren't reading that daily paper, then you don't have a clue as to what's happening to the country.
On Sunday, April 26, 2015, we put on our Aussie hat, mirror sunglasses, and activated the required cigarette holder (with the same unlit cigarette that we have used for the last three years) and plunged into some fact finding and photography efforts at the How Weird Street Faire held on (pun alert!) Howard Street in San Francisco. It was worth the effort.
Roaming around the San Francisco Bay area with a Nikon Coolpix may not be making America safe for Democracy but it is an effective (temporary) cure for boredom.
If gay marriage is ruled to be un-Constitutional, will dissention in San Francisco be more newsworthy than it has been in Baltimore?
Making snide remarks about national politics may not sway one single vote, but it sure is therapeutic for a perennial malcontent.
This week's column is being posted earlier than usual because on Friday May 1, we intend on going to San Francisco to cover various May Day activities such as the tip that a member of the Merry Pranksters will announce an attempt to become Frisco's mayor.
For the class of 1965, they could relish the feelings liberals experienced when, on Nov. 7, 1962, Richard Milhous Nixon said: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."
Now, for members of the class of '65, the disk jockey will play Iggy Pop's "I'm (the Chairman of the) bored," Frank Sinatra's "That's Life," and Lynn Anderson's "I beg your pardon (I never promised you a Rose Garden)." We have to hustle back to the Fortress of Solitude and resume our binge watching of "Rocky and Bullwinkle and friends." Have a "self inflicted injuries" type of week.
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