[hombre_sincero]

That is why they have such tyrannical gun-control laws in kalifornia.

Criminals don't like getting what they deserve.


One man says to a second man: "Do you believe in the First Amendment freedom of speech?"

The second man says: "Of course I do."

The first man then asks: "Do you believe in the Second Amendment freedom to bear arms?"

The second man replies: "No, I don't."

The first man insists: "Then shut up!"

The moral of the story is: you can have your rights, but you have to protect and defend them, too.

[Jaysun]

"A baby smiles and a flower grows,"

That sounds like LSD inspired hippie lyrics.

[Carry_Okie]

I love 5th Avenue. It's an amalgam of the last vestiges of a lifestyle that has existed in every major port for hundreds of years: the backwater of a port, the artist colony, the funky dive of the dysfunctional intellectual...

I had the privilege of living on the water with some of these people for nine years. Lifeboat Bill, Houseboat Bob, Petie Baker with his barge with palm trees and the wierdest crane you've ever seen on top... these are true characters who would never live in any other world. 5th Avenue is all that's left in the Bay Area. Sausalito is, by comparison, a charicature. 5th Avenue is the real thing.

For over thirty years, I've been watching the slow demise of this little world under the onslaught of container ports, restaurants, and thoughtless owners of plastic "yachts." I go down there from time to time, because the place is a treasure. I've taken my kids there for a little slice of reality before it dieappears. I made a brief attempt to save it. I'm not looking forward to its demise. God bless JW; I hope he can pull it off.