Ahhh.....San Francisco......

I went to go see Bowling For Columbine this afternoon. Not suprisingly, it's doing gang-busters here. It's a brilliant movie, but preaches to the choir. The audience applauds at the end of the flick.

I go home and hop on BART. As BART comes, I notice that the car that stops in front of me features a (probably) crazy (probably) homeless black woman who is lugging what appears to be a garbage can down the aisle. Not wanting to look to obvious about my discomfort about getting on that car, I get on. She's yabbering away and asking for spare change. It's always intersting when a crazy homeless person gets on Pub Trans. Nothing like the tension that comes as all the riders on the bus/train all collectively try and ignore the obviously crazy, smelly person walking by them. Everyone just sits there, eyes focused in front of them, doing everything possible to completely ignore what's going on around them, all hoping that whatever could happen, doesn't happen to them.

As I sit there for awhile, I notice that a black male, upper middle class and rocking the Spike Lee look mumbles to the left of me, bitching about the poor excuse of a human dragging her garbage can around. His stop comes and he gets out, but right before he leaves, he turns to the lady and starts yelling at her "take your God-damn garbage can off this train. Your stinking up the whole train!" He goes on and gets into it with the lady, saying everything that everyone else on the train was probably thinking but would never say. He steps off and meets up with friends at the platform. As he stands there, talking to his friends and obviously commiserating about the incident, your typical San Francisco white boy (complete with bike and goatee) looks up from his Palm Pilot and seeing the other guy still there, gets up to the front of the door and starts yelling at the guy. "Hey, don't yell at her. Try doing something to help her instead of yelling at her." As the doors close, he self-righteously sits back down and enters something else into his Palm Pilot.

Speaking of which, saw this headline in the Comical this morning:

Bush seeks sweeping overhaul of federal rules - Health regulations, environmental protections among hundreds of targets.

Hey, all you Green Party people- how's that voting for Nader thing working out for you?