YOU ARE NOT ENCOURAGED

Per the little notation in the bottom bar of my screen a heat advisory is in effect. It's something that much of the country has been seeing for a few months now, and over in Europe they've had it too. But this is the Bay Area. Where we're sometimes a bit slow.
And in the western edge life has been cool, hip, and often foggy.

I note, by the way, that benches are being removed in areas where it had been pleasant to sit while smoking one's pipe. Because benches are communist devices which encourage old people, loiterers, and pipe smokers, and, especially in commercial streets, those are all considered nuisances and must be discouraged.

Oh, and drug users or vagrants too.

San Francisco needs none of those.

We're all about cleanliness and discouraging old folks, layabouts, briar aficionados, fans and friends of illicit or non-illicit substances, and anybody who might be less completely employed or employable than our very fine bourgeois lifestyle and pretensions merit. Tourists also. It is imperative that all of the above ambulate at all times. For their health and our visual comfort.

The city must maintain its aesthetic standards at all costs.

Naturally, once they've finally finished the expensive and completely unnecessary project to upgrade and "improve" Portsmouth Square, there will be no seating available outside of the 'clubhouse' they're going to put there, where the little old people can be fully supervised and controlled, and kept from playing cards or surreptitiously smoking. Because we can't have that. It's unsanitary! And a bad example to the kiddies!

It's going to take at least two years, and when it is over there will be no unsightly elderly or unemployed people there, no garbage or card playing, no smoking or evidence of unhealthy snacks, and only clean photogenic park-goers of a span of representative ages, ethnicities, and identity choices in a rainbow array, with security cameras and easy access fire lanes. Traps and poison for rats, raccoons, and coyotes. Signage promoting good habits, mutually supportive behaviours, and healthy eating if any eating at all but only in permitted areas.

The retired people will love it. We'll make sure of that!
And nothing to trigger people who know better.

A long list of forbidden things.



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