Want to find out what San Francisco's really like? Consider this, courtesy of the always game Bay Guardian.

I guess sometime over the past couple of weeks the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (themsleves a comedy routine in and of itself) decided to take time from such trivial matters as huge budget crunches, the homeless, and the increasingly worrisome lifeless Giants offense to take up a really important matter- getting soda machine's out of public facilities. Because, you know, drinking Coke is really bad for you and if we lived in a world without the temptation of delicious soda, we'd all be much happier, healthier and well-adjusted, not to mention there'd be an ushering in of world peace and understanding.

Editor's Note- I actually don't like drinking soft drinks and haven't for years. I have nothing against them, however, other than having to constantly explain to someone that it doesn't matter if they don't have Coke, only Pepsi, because there's no frickin' difference and if you'll drink one, you'll drink the other and half of us call all soft drinks coke anyways.

In this week's Bay Guardian we get an editorial about the debate, from a Fat Activist (and yes, we do have them) objecting not to the banning of coke machines or the time being wasted by the Board of Supervisors, but because in the debate, several objectionable things were said about fat people. She does, however, come out and says she supports the ban (drinking soft-drinks is unhealthy, after all, and as someone who is fat, she doesn't support things that are unhealthy). So, to sum up, this is what the editorial is stating- that it's okay to prevent people from having the choice to drink soft-drinks and it's even okay to waste valuable time debating the issue. The only thing you can't do here is say anything wrong about fat people.

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