City Hall and Masonic Avenue: A photo analysis

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The picture above on the Public Works site---the visual equivalent of happy-talk---is the kind of thing that makes liberals/progressives so easy to mock, and I say that as a liberal. 

There are nine women pictured, maybe ten if the figure on the left in the pink shirt isn't a guy and/or the distant figure on the right pushing the stroller is male, but both are unclear. (The gender of the toddlers is also unclear.) The two figures on the bench seen from behind are presumably guys. Otherwise, the only upright male figure in the picture is the black man with the black woman.

The gay community can be referenced by the two guys on the bench or the three women. No white men are clearly represented. Sorry, guys! But you're still presumably allowed to use Masonic Avenue---for now.

The woman on the bike isn't wearing a helmet because the new, "improved" Masonic Avenue is so safe she doesn't need one. 

It would have been amusing to hear the discussion before the creation of this carefully crafted composition by the overpaid bobbleheads in the SFMTA and Public Works.

See also Terrorism, Islam, and dhimmitude in City Hall and Muni's fatuous "peace" campaign.

Kavanaugh will be confirmed

Kevin Drum:

Democrats are doing a pretty good job of going after him and leaving an impressive amount of chaos in their wake, and Kavanaugh is mostly responding like a deer in headlights. This is pretty interesting, but it also doesn’t matter. 

Unless Kavanaugh turns out to be the Zodiac Killer, Republicans are going to confirm him and that’s that—even if they have to keep half his career hidden from view in order to pull it off. Democrats can squawk and complain all they want, but in the end Kavanaugh will be a conservative Supreme Court justice who will probably serve for 30 or 40 years. Nothing else matters.

Rob's comment:

Agreed. After Kavanaugh is confirmed, the court will be dominated by the right with potentially dire political consequences after, as is now likely, the Democrats regain control of the government beginning in November and in 2020. This could eventually lead to a political standoff like the one that culminated in FDR's attempt to pack the Supreme Court in 1937.

See also Paul Krugman: Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution.

"This is not normal"

"Diatribe" is not the right word for a good speech. The full speech below:

Obama Calls Trump the Product of a Republican Party Gone Mad

Transcript of Obama's speech blasting President Trump