I was watching the NFL Hall of Fame presentations and got a kick out of Kevin Greens speech. You can tell what kind of a character he is, (and has), from his playing days to his time coaching. He spent the last few minutes thanking law enforcement and the military. His dad was a Colonel in the Army and you can tell. You can watch the speech here, it’s worth it, especially the end.

Then I watched Eddie Debartalo. I always liked him and thought he got a raw deal In San Francisco when the NFL made him sale the team. Then, during his speech, he thanked Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and the liberal mayor of San Francisco for their help after he purchased the 49ers. I was surprised, Eddie D. never struck me as a liberal. Things must have been different back in the ’70’s than they are now.

Against memory any present day moment usually pales as nostalgia takes its toll. Knowing the nostalgia effect you are prepared, at the least, to be disappointed. Feeling that the past is preferable to the present is a common human instinct. Revisiting old haunts you’re prepared to be disturbed. After all, you’ve read and heard about the degradation of San Francisco for a long time. That said, there’s nothing like a few people crapping on the sidewalk to remind you that the San Francisco of the present is probably past redemption absent another earthquake.

The extent to which the homeless, the hard-core unemployed, the drunk and the addicted, the whores of all three sexes, and battalions of shabby panhandlers infest San Francisco is something to bring even the most hard-core liberal from elsewhere up short. For decades myriad policies and millions man-years of effort funded with untold millions have only created a free-crap zone.  here….