The unbearable lightness of spleen.

"What good has [the military] done for us in the last five years?" Sandoval asked.

"Are you kidding me?'' Alan Colmes -- a Democrat -- asked a moment later.

"The United States should not have a military,'' Sandoval repeated. "All in all, we would be in much, much, much better shape."

"What do you want to defend ourselves -- what do you want to defend ourselves with?" Colmes asked later.

Sandoval: "Well, you got cops. It's called the Coast Guard. There's lots of things different."

~San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval.

Logic in there. Somewhere. If found, alert press.

San Francisco: Can they succeed . . . Please!? Blonde Sagacity, 2/21/06.