decided today that the progressives of san francisco have failed this election because they have become reactionaries rather than progressives. Not to say they haven't done anything good -- but that does not get talked about, they do not talk about it much even, partly because everything takes so long to happen. But all our issues this year have been about NO on N. Even the yes votes we encouraged O, D, E were all reactions in a way to other powers that be, other things that have happened in the past year or so.

maybe that is inescapable though. everything is reaction to something, just some of those somethings are more visible than others.