Working downtown in San Francisco, I’ve noticed a proliferation of Scientologists, with their Free Stress Test tables and creepy smiles. Downtown, they seem strangely appropriate, ministering to German tourists, who can’t learn about Scientology because in their home country it’s an illegal cult.
Turns out, Cruise & Co. are in the process of trying to acquire a landmark building in San Francisco’s North Beach. Aaron Peskin, one of the SF Board of Supervisors’ more extreme lefties (the Board ranges from about Clinton left to about Marx)