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  • We do the Bridge-Walks on Saturday mornings assuming no rain or other commitments. We meet at 7:45 a.m. and begin walking to the Golden Gate Bridge at 8:00 a.m. It's okay to arrive late; you'll just have to catch up or meet us after the turn at Fort Point. 7:45 a.m. SFYC-Marina parking lot to GGB & return, assuming a decent weather forecast. This is a walk TO, not over, the bridge, and back.

  • Description: Unless otherwise noted, all walks proceed as follows: we begin at the parking lot shown as Yacht Road on Mapquest adjacent to the north end of the Marina Green next to the St. Francis Yacht Club. We meet at 7:45 a.m. and at 8:00 a.m. ambling towards the Golden Gate Bridge, which is about a mile-and-a-quarter away. If you're late, it's easy to catch up. The round trip takes about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. There are comfort stations at each end. Snacks and a bookstore are at the Warming Hut near the Bridge. Plenty of birds and boats to see along the way. Bring a friend or child, a camera or binoculars. Dress for wind and weather. Drizzles don't bother, rainstorms will cancel. We talk about something, nothing, birds, plants, boats, whatever, and if it relates to Con-Law, so much the better, but that's not required. We enjoy ourselves, basically, by getting fresh air and taking a more or less brisk walk, depending on what stops we make to smell the flowers or view a bird.

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  • Choose a work that you love and you won't have to work another day. Confucius
  • A sound mind in a sound body under a sound Constitution, that's our motto. rs
  • The key to nearly everything is a competent investigation, which means one conducted with integrity, an attempt to see where you might be wrong. RS w/ thanks to RPF
  • The key to creating an illusory world is a biased selection of facts according to a preconceived notion. - Thomas Sowell
  • The past isn't dead, it's all around you... rs
  • The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. -- Wm. Faulkner
  • If Constitutional Law doesn't get your dander up, you're not getting it. -- R. Sheridan
  • The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, but remember, you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. -- U.S. Constitution, Amends 5, 14
  • No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned,...or in any other way destroyed...except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. - Magna Carta
  • The only thing new under the sun is the history you don't know. -- Harry S Truman
  • Study the past if you would divine the future. -- Confucius

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December 18, 2005

MICK LASALLE

Mick LaSalle, the movie critic at the S.F. Chronicle, has one of those Noo Yawk senses of huma' that he could only have picked up on StatNisland, the home of yours truly, which is where he's from, I'm told.  Here's an exchange with an irate reader:

Irate reader:

I was confused on whether  you were reviewing a movie or thrusting your liberal war views down our throat (in your review of "Jarhead").  War is hell and isn't it nice that you live in your comfortable little world without having to shed blood?  Oh, but that is because someone else had to shed blood for you!  Keep your liberal crying vomit to yourself.

                                                                         David Lenk, Hendersonville, N.C.

MIck LaSalle:

Gosh, David, if you're for Hillary in 2008, just say so.  Don't be sneaky about it.  This transparent redneck parody, designed to repulse unsuspecting patriots and sway them to your crypto-leftist agenda, is fooling nobody.

***

Happy reader:

Hi, Mick LaSalle:

Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy Ask Mick LaSalle.  This is by far the most interesting column I've read anywhere.  Love the questions, and your answers are really right on.  Keep up the great work.  I look forward to reading every future column.

                                                                            Ronald Fernandez, Pittsburgh

Mick LaSalle:

          Hi, Ronald Fernandez:

Loyal readers will be happy to know that I checked your address against a list of insane aylums in the Pittsburgh area, and it did not pop up.  I also did a syntactical analysis, and you're not my mother.  So this is very encouraging.  The only thing I can add is that, if you want to extend the magic, you might want to click on to the weekly Ask Mick podcast.  You don't need any special equipment, just unquenchable curiosity, a discerning artistic sense and no social life whatsover.

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Somehow my StatNisland sense tells me that it's raise time at the Chron and Mick wrote this 'reader's submission' himself, but we StatNislanders need to stick together, so I ain't sayin' nuttin.'

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