Rep. Barbara Lee speaks for me, so it was pretty much 500 people bathing her in adulation and begging her to save us.

AND JUST LIKE THAT I LOVE PEOPLE AGAIN.

Downtown is 1000 percent more lively than it was when I moved here 30 years ago and you could have rolled a bowling ball down the sidewalk at 17th and Broadway at 5 p.m. without hitting anyone. I wouldn’t want to go back to ghost town days.

You also make a persuasive argument. Basically, I can remember when that building was an Emporium, and gorgeous. What Sears did to it was a crime against architecture.

Well, you make a compelling case.

You’ve got to admit, though, T.O.’s off-the-field issues didn’t exactly tank his career.

I am not a labor lawyer, but this sounds so so so illegal.

They are renovating a landmark building in downtown Oakland to be their new headquarters and I go back and forth between wanting them to make it succeed For Oakland’s Sake and wanting the Black Bloc to just smashy everything they own.

How about a law requiring the Texas governor to give the Black Power salute during the anthem?

Hmm, I did not realize some historians had revised their estimates downwards after Soviet records became more widely available. I still see some estimates close to 20M, though, if you include famine and other indirect methods of prematurely ending people’s lives.

You know Stalin killed more than 20 million of his own people, right? But sure, go ahead and compare him with some guy who “raised taxes” so that 30 million more people could have health insurance because those are absolutely morally equivalent.

Howard Terminal. Which is actually closer to BART than AT&T is, for what it’s worth. (Also right next to the ferry dock.)

Weirdly, a lot of Giants fans live in Oakland. Forced out of the city by housing prices, I guess. And the median home price in Oakland is now $639K.

The Coliseum was a really nice place to see a baseball game ... in 1987. BART train stop right at the stadium, lots of parking, nice view of the hills. And, you know, Reggie, Ricky, Dave Stewart, Eck, Tony LaRussa, Mark McGwire, the young Jose Canseco...

I think the OP was disagreeing with the implication that abortions, per se, are a national disgrace. “Safe, legal, rare.”

If women have to choose abortion because they didn’t have access to birth control, it IS a national disgrace. And we are headed towards that disgrace again, I fear.

I didn’t watch the whole thing because thank jebus I’m not paid to do so, but it seemed to me there was a lot LESS laughter than usual at a presser. When I think back to Obama or W interacting with journalists, the president’s teasing was usually of the good-natured sort. Maybe a little TOO cozy even.

I know; I’m seriously thinking of switching my fantasy life to the NBA, which appears to be the Wokest Sports League.

At the small general aviation airport in the mountain community where I used to live, standard procedure was to come around once low and hot before trying to land, especially in the late afternoon and early evening when deer are most common.

Lalalalalalala I can’t hear you, what?