Eligible SF residents can now get cash to stay sober
ktvu.com | October 30, 2024

The “Cash Not Drugs” proposal, under which certain residents would receive money to stay sober, is now closer to becoming reality after the city’s Board of Supervisors passed the bill earlier this week.

The bill gives welfare recipients a $100 city-issued gift card for each week they stay sober. Proponents of the plan call it a humane and effective way of dealing with the drug crisis plaguing San Francisco.

Supervisors Ahsha Safai, Dean Preston, Matt Dorsey, and Rafael Mandelman sponsored the bill.

Eligible recipients include those enrolled in the County Adult Assistance Program (CAAP). The Cash Not Drugs is completely voluntary and expected to last for three years.

That word “Adult” . . . It may not mean what you think it does. Nor “Assistance.”

Dear Shabby:

I am an Ivy League robotic Democrat soy-milk-drinking man-bun-combing tattooed vegan skinny-jeans-wearing self-proclaimed pusscake who goes biking every night and to bed sipping Bud Light out of a wine glass while reading the New York Times in red plaid pajamas by organic-beeswax candlelight to save Mother Gaia. How can you help me attract a desirable mate? All the ones I’ve met so far are f***ing dogs.

Signed,

Lonesome in Bunny Slippers in Bed-Sty (the good section)

I once had a British co-worker.

She said that England had gradually sort of adopted the idea of Halloween from America (probably with the encouragement of “sweets” companies).

This discussion took place many years ago, but the gist was that it was not a tradition when she was little and growing up, but gradually it seeped into the culture over there, and now it’s just seen as a fun night out, analogous to Guy Fawkes Day. Or Guy Fawkes Night. Doesn’t matter.

I think that Halloween and Thanksgiving are enviable contributions of America to the rest of the civilized world. But Canadian Thanksgiving is a thing, too. Someone should Google which came first. I’ll wait.

Biden bites three babies at White House Halloween party
Daily Mail | October 30, 2024 | Emily Goodin

President Joe Biden bizarrely bit three babies as he greeted the children of staff to his final Halloween party at the White House.

“Oh, MAGOOF! You’ve done it again!”

They spelled “Oppovision” wrong.

Hmm. You have to show ID to view this, but not to vote.

Two redheads? Could be trouble.