The law is not always pretty
San Francisco is, in its way, the sieve atop life's drain. Every manner of desperate person seems to come through here while their life swirls downward; the city is, all too often, a way station for oblivion.
And so, the news broke this week that
Bad Elmo is, once again, roaming our streets and annoying our denizens.
Dan "Adam" Sandler is a puzzling man who dons a red, fuzzy outfit and fulminates against the Jews. His resume includes running a porn site in Cambodia titled "Welcome to the Rape Camp" that led to his deportation from that nation. Later he was found guilty of attempting to extort $2 million from the Girl Scouts.
And yet, here he is, back in our fair city and fund-raising, so to speak.
Perhaps they come here -- and not burgs like Grand Rapids, Mich. -- because we're so much more welcoming. After all, that Midwestern town
only this month rescinded a 38-year-old law stating "no person shall willfully annoy another person."
A law on the books like that would have reduced San Francisco to a penal colony.