There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, and Oakland is running through them so fast for new tax and bond measures, it has had to double up the letters, so that we get things like measures AA, MM, KK and so on. At this rate, Carroll Fife is already contemplating Measure NNN, which will raise parcel taxes to pay for renaming everything after George Floyd.

No wonder average people have tuned out of the politics around the homelessness. As a topic, it’s boring. The vocabulary alone requires a Ph.D in homeless-ology, with each term hauling complications and implications that the public can barely fathom—and shouldn’t be expected to.

I just came across a post that Carroll Fife’s male partner, Tur-Ha Ak, put up on her Facebook page. It’s from last December, but I assume that Mr. Ak still feels the same. He wrote:

America has had a lot of great Presidents—James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Donald Trump. But to my mind the greatest of them all—the GOAT—was Pervert Poover. He famously built Poover Dam, and caused the Great Manic Depression (which is one reason why he’s Trump’s favorite President).

Of all the dumbass shit I’ve ever heard, this takes the cake: “This is a change in how our stores look, not in who we are."