From my clutter to your consideration: intriguing items

Material that I'll never get around to discussing more deeply that might interest someone:

• Dylan Matthews has written an earnest effort to untangle ... Joe Rogan, Bernie Sanders, and the hidden moral philosophy of American politics. He assigns people expressing blanket revulsion about Bernie's acceptance of endorsement by the woman-hating, racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, and transphobic podcaster to the deontological ethical camp. However he reminds us that a consequentialist ethics would allow and applaud Bernie for accepting the endorsement of such a potent cultural figure.
  
  Living with Erudite Partner, who is an academic ethicist, I've learned at little to think within these useful ethical constructs. I believe that if we don't take a rigidly deontological position on racism and for women's humanity (in which I subsume all the homophobic and transphobic stuff), white people, and especially white men, will never get it. Sometimes you have to hit people upside the head.
  
  However, as someone who has long worked in elections and mass social movements, I can go very consequentialist on occasion. To move a lot of people in a generally good direction, you have to take what you can get. And it would be crazy -- and wrong -- not to.
  
  I agree with Matthews that "these are not just disputes about the facts." When we engage, we're tempted to pretend our responses to ethical conundrums arise from realities we believe are unquestionable, rather than from arguments we make up to confirm our underlying assumptions. We need to take ourselves with a grain of salt.
  
  But I'm just a pretty comfortable, seasoned, old white dyke, still truckin' toward a better world. What do you think?

This newcomer, the Salesforce tower, looms over Potrero Hill. It's sure not a transient.

• Carl Nolte provides a graceful exploration of a perennial question in this ever-changing city: How long does it take for a newcomer to become a San Franciscan? He characterizes many of our current neighbors like this:

  ... temporary San Franciscans: tech workers, the gig economy workers, here to make their fortune or to have a great time in a boomtown, and then move on. It’s as if they have double-parked in this most transient of cities.

  I suspect he's on to something here, especially if raising children is in these folks' future. Even tech jobs won't pay enough to allow that to go forward up to middle class standards. But there are other relative newcomers whose lives he explores ...

• Just for the heck of it, I think this is a good ad for the upcoming primary. Do you?