(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Thu Mar 19 06:00:32 PDT 2009


Matthew Keeley wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Son of Witz
> <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>> As a complete aside, it's quite interesting to talk about this stuff with
>> y'all.  It's too easy to end up in an echo chamber, especially when you live
>> in SF.  It's hard to even find self-proclaimed conservatives here.  I'm
>> pretty damn liberal, but living in SF long enough will make you gag at some
>> of the thoughtless knee-jerk (not to mention arrogant) liberal attitudes.
>>
>> ~witz
> 
> I was in SF a few weeks back and, though I expected it to be very
> liberal, I was surprised by some of the goings-on I heard about. The
> trip I was on visited Alcatraz. Great, and interesting from a
> historical perspective. Only later did I read about the plan - THAT
> ACTUALLY MADE THE CITY BALLOT - to tear down the prison and replace it
> with a peace center. Only 72% of people in the city voted against it.

72% of people in the city, or 72% of people who voted?

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