I just don’t understand:
- Why does anyone watch MTV these days? Is it just that I’ve aged out of the target audience or are endless reruns of “Road Rules” and “The Real World” just plain BORING?
- How is it that in one of the wealthiest cities in one of the wealthiest nations in the world, there are homeless people who will spend the holidays barricaded outside Golden Gate Park?
- Why is it that I always expect people in Volvos to be really incompetent and indecisive drivers? And why am I correct in this assumption about 80% of the time?
- Why is it that I always expect people in BMWs to be really arrogant and inconsiderate drivers? And why am I correct in this assumption about 95% of the time?
- Why do people who live in outlying suburbs, pay no city taxes, and contribute virtually nothing to the urban economy feel they have ANY right to complain about the city?
- What is the point of the SF Sidewalk web site? And why would anyone go there when they could hit the Guardian site instead?
- Who the hell buys all those millions of copies of “Reader’s Digest” which are sold every month?
- Why does it cost 50 cents more to sell a gallon of gas in San Francisco than in Atlanta? I somehow thought there was more oil in California than in Georgia.
- When did people start believing that being rude and unreasonable would get better “results” than being civil and polite?
- How can anyone spend an hour talking on the phone with someone who lives less than a mile away?