It’s 7:34 a.m., 57° and promises to climb to only 60°. It’s wet and dank and our only hope is that SF weather often looks worse than it is. Details are here.
Dolores Park Works has published its latest newsletter, with news on the playground and a playback of the discussions on park renovations. Bathrooms play prominently. Trash bins?
Our favorite Tenderloin blog, the Tender, offers alternatives to Muni. Probably wouldn’t work for anyone over 50, but who knows?
Speaking of 50, President Obama hits the mark today. Here’s a happy birthday leveler from the Independent.
A snippet:
At 50, observed George Orwell, “everyone has the face he deserves….” It goes on to lament the recent fight over the debt ceiling, and suggests: “He could have drawn a line in the sand. He, who claimed he’d rather be a transformational one-term president than a two-term duffer, could have said, “You didn’t elect me to preside over a brutal diminution of the rights of the needy, and I won’t have it” and risked himself in the fight to spread the pain between poor and wealthy. He might have lost and become unelectable — even been forced to stand aside in 2012 for Hillary Clinton.
And would that be such a terrible thing? Hillary is not, one suspects, a good woman. There is little, if anything, she would not baulk at in pursuit of power. But whatever her moral elasticity, Hillary is a street-fighter, and would never have surrendered to the Tea Party’s pulverising nastiness and juggernaut stupidity. If the Republicans take the Senate next November and have control of both houses, who would you back to defend Obamacare?
There is more, and for Republicans, Independents, Democrats or the just plain curious, it’s worth reading. Again, here.