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A few weeks ago, I got an email from Merchant’s Exchange Building and signed up. Who can pass up discounted Guinness, right?
Then I realized that it’s the same night of the more recently announced debate/knife fight between Sen. Carole Migden and Assemblyman Mark Leno, which I figured might be worth some blogging goodness.
Guinness at 6:30 or Brawl at 7? Which should I choose?

Jenny Siebel Pours Gas on Self, Lights Lighter, Thinking She Rocks (She Doesn’t).

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WTF?

Seriously. That’s all I could think of when I watched the latest iteration of Mayor Newsom’s mayoral meltdown, courtesy of his latest “girlfriend”, Jennifer Siebel. The interview itself was little more than self-serving gossip from a woman who clearly sees herself as the future Mrs. Newsom, and was eager to play the role of “First Lady of SF” in her first big interview.

Reading it, you got the sense that it was all scripted, designed to put out fires caused by the Mayor’s past behavior, and perhaps rewrite history, Communist Russia style, to reinforce the meme that The Mayor Has A Stable, Monogamous, Heterosexual Relationship, and that Everything Is OK. Oh, and he’s Kind of A Victim, Too.
Fine. But then my good friends at SFist.com posted some minor commentary on the piece. That’s when Jenny Siebel decided to take a can of gas, dump it on herself and the Mayor, and light her lighter, thinking she rocks – and ended up burning herself and the Mayor in the processs.

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It’s been said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again, and expect different results. One could easily apply this to those who insist all we need is Yet Another 60’s Style Protest to “end” the Iraq War. Once again, these flyers are sprouting like mushrooms all over the city.
Fine. Here’s the problem. Not only is it questionable if old-fashioned, 60’s-style, “march in the streets and be loud” protests are really effective anymore, it’s also time for someone (or many someones) to clean house with regards to who runs these things.
We’re at a point now where an overwhelming number of Americans nationwide are giving the President a big thumbs down for job performance. That’s everywhere not just in hippie SF. More importantly, a clear majority now state they believe the war in Iraq was a mistake.
With all that, plus the unexpected win of opposition Democrats, you’d think by now these “protests” would be run by a broad range of mainstream political and social groups, and not be run primarily by authoritarian extremists.
Bzzt. Think again.

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