Who Cut the Balls Off San Francisco? - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine"...So now San Francisco is banning e-cigarettes, because a City Council member discovered there are still people making personal decisions about what to do with their lives.
They’ve been trying to eliminate these people for three decades now, but some individuals just refuse to learn.
It’s been a year or so since I wrote about San Francisco’s ban on the sale of fur in a move that does nothing for animals but destroys businesses that have been established there since the 19th century.
Unfortunately I can’t really devote 52 columns a year to cataloguing products banned by San Francisco.
...Juul is a San Francisco company, so once again the city is eating its young, trying to legislate out of existence a $2 billion local firm that employs 1,500 people.
...In some ways San Francisco’s descent into madness is self-correcting, because eventually so many groups will be pointing fingers at so many other groups, demanding lifestyle alterations designed to create healthy specimens of Correct Living, that the whole peninsula will devolve into something resembling the Soviet Union in 1965, if they’re lucky, and Venezuela in 2019 if they’re not..."
Unfortunately I can’t really devote 52 columns a year to cataloguing products banned by San Francisco.
In the past they’ve outlawed
- plastic bags,
- clove cigarettes,
- Coke machines,
- bottled-water machines, people playing stickball in the street,
- people playing chess in the street,
- pet stores,
- goldfish,
- masked balls, and
- the practice of letting your dog stick his head halfway out the window while you’re driving.
- Long ago they banned toys being given away with Happy Meals at McDonald’s.
- There are several states that have been under sanction by San Francisco at various times, with city employees forbidden from traveling on official business to Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota, or my home state of Texas.
- ....It’s illegal to ride a Segway in San Francisco,
- to package food with Styrofoam,
- to declaw a cat, or to s
- erve chocolate milk in schools.
- No one in government is allowed to make any contract with any company that uses tropical hardwood—“Get the rugs out! The floor inspectors are coming over!”—and
- no school is allowed to offer Junior ROTC because young people who want to follow their families into military service are probably deranged.
- Don’t try to walk more than eight dogs at a time—even if they’re toy poodles and Chihuahuas—and
- don’t give your 5-year-old a slingshot for his birthday, because that’s an illegal weapon.
...Juul is a San Francisco company, so once again the city is eating its young, trying to legislate out of existence a $2 billion local firm that employs 1,500 people.
...In some ways San Francisco’s descent into madness is self-correcting, because eventually so many groups will be pointing fingers at so many other groups, demanding lifestyle alterations designed to create healthy specimens of Correct Living, that the whole peninsula will devolve into something resembling the Soviet Union in 1965, if they’re lucky, and Venezuela in 2019 if they’re not..."
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