Information beats ignorance (I hope)

Photographed by Charles Thompson

It may be best to fight ignorance with kindness: I have arranged for Jennifer Siebel’s 2005 article on conservation to be put up at Lucire’s online edition. They may discover the real Jen through that: it’s in her words.
   She is not the only person who ran into trouble defending the one she loves through a blog. It has happened to the best of us, though I wasn’t dating a mayor. But whatever the case, I expect to speak freely. I have done in my interviews. It is 2007, something that Jennifer’s (and my) critics do not seem to realize when we talk about our love lives. Freedom of speech, holding an opinion, treating blogs as democratic media—surely San Francisco, the capital of Googleland, Liberalia and American progressiveness, understands this?
   Or does the city really prefer sinking in standing and becoming ’Frisco again?