Long Time Gone

Shows up in San Francisco, openly opposes "civil unions," yet tries to evade responsibility for it by "leaving the matter up to the states." If you're going to be a bigot, have the guts to stand behind your beliefs and let us know what you think. If your opinion is correct, you should have nothing to fear. Homophobes, come out of the closet so we can see who you are. The half-assed notion of "civil unions" is akin to the equally fallacious "separate but equal" rule from segregation days in the South. Include me in the back of the bus, please; I don't believe in discrimination. As Daniel Pearl's dad, on the anniversary of his murder, said so eloquently, and I paraphrase, "we can judge humanity by how the Jews are treated."

Funny how it's the anti-gay party that keeps experiencing gay sex scandals...

San Francisco Chronicle Fred J. Martin, Jr 10/31/07 Will the crisis of the 1960s precipitated by the closing of California's state mental hospitals be perpetuated in San Francisco? Will the city continue attempting to sweep homeless from the streets and parks without a strategy for treatment of these mostly chronically mentally ill individuals? The San Francisco Department of Public Health has proposed to eliminate 22 inpatient psychiatric beds at San Francisco General Hospital as of January 2008. Next week, the Board of Supervisors will consider a supplementary appropriation to reverse this action. If left to stand, however, this city would eliminate 22 out of 87 SFGH locked ward beds and shift the funding to an acute diversion unit and a voluntary urgent care program...[continued]

Car towed. Parking citation. Biopsych midterm. Long day. Police lock-down in Castro. The anti-Halloween.

An exploitative, voyeuristic show with pseudo-advice for needy people that does more harm than good. Phil abuses his authority as show host and as underqualified "therapist." Isn't his degree in industrial psych or something like that?

Colbert and his newly-minted run for the presidential nod; in South Carolina, at least, where he may run as both a Republican and a Democrat--a "Republicrat"?

An hour-long interview with Richard Armitage by Charlie Rose is probably too much information, but he's an interesting guy. Fluent in Vietnamese, apparently, among other languages. First caught my eye in "No End in Sight," and has been implicated in the Valerie Plame leak.