His Derbness has a great column today on homelessness in San Francisco.
"When you cross the United States from the east coast, San Francisco is the end of the line, the last stop on the long cross-country trail. It is also the end point of liberalism, as foreseen by Rudyard Kipling: the point at which 'all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.' You can't go any further than this geographically without falling into the ocean; you can't go any further than San Francisco has gone in yielding to the 'rights' of people who acknowledge no balancing duties, no responsibility whatsoever to their fellow citizens, nor even to their own persons. "
I have not been there for a few years but I have heard enough of these stories -- also from far more liberal Chris Matthews -- that I have lost any desire to go back. Every American has an intrinsic love of San Francisco. Look what a couple of decades of Willie Brown and Diane Feinstein have wrought.