Making Me Laugh

[Making me laugh today: the 10 at 10 on KFOG this morning was dedicated to Pride, which is pummeling us with its rainbow fists in San Francisco this weekend. (Usually, they play ten songs from a randomly chosen year. It's the only programming on that station I can stand; however, it's the office compromise, so I close my eyes and think of England as "classic rock" is spun yet again.)]

[The sponsor? California Closets.]

[One of the songs, by the way, was Tom Robinson's "Glad To Be Gay," which I'm afraid I'd heard of but never heard until today. Very cockney-folk-punk a la Billy Bragg avant la lettre. I liked it.]

"Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way."

[I haven't decided whether to do anything Pride-related this weekend. It's not that I'm not Proud; it's that the idea of the crowds doesn't thrill me as it did in years past.]

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[Also making me laugh today: John Wildermuth's piece in today's Chronicle about how much less civil politics has gotten lately. (Is "how much less" a correct construction? I can't think!) The impetus for this startling pronouncement was, of course, my representative on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors accusing the mayor of being a cokehead.]

[Yeah, clutch the pearls; things are just horrid lately in the political etiquette department. In the old days, disgruntled supervisors snuck into City Hall after dark and just gunned down their enemies. No fuss, no muss, have a Twinkie. When you look at it that way, Chris Daly isn't even trying to express his crazy mayor-angst in a way that will really stick in people's minds. C'mon, Chris! You can do better!]

[People sometimes act as though at some unspecified point in the last quarter of the 20th century, people stopped being Nice, presumably so they could be more Real. I think this is crap. People may be a little less formal in most situations, but I think the average level of discourse in politics has actually gotten more civilized, not less. (The substance is another thing.) If this were 1800, Newsom and Daly would be meeting on a bluff in Pacifica or something to duel like Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton at Weehawken, all the while calling each other "sir." Talk about barbaric!]

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[Nothing else is making me laugh today.]

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