The Purpose of HFSP and Essential Reading

Homelessness for Stupid People

The foibles of the most pampered homeless population in the Bay Area...

The target readership of this blog are 1: The Homeless, 2: Those that work with the homeless, and 3: the community at large, in that order.

Some joker who calls himself Libertus_rebellium and I got into it on the blog entry concerning Bo Busse's arrest. But I'm a little irritated with LR's attitude. Having not followed this blog he has very strong opinions on it (and me personally).

Just so everyone knows: I will NEVER answer personal questions in the comments of this blog. I only talk about that with people I know I can trust, and LR has not even tried earning my trust. I don't give that away, especially to people who hide behind ridiculous monikers designed to protect their annonymity.

But busting LR's rear is really not the purpose of this blog entry. It's purpose is for those of you who are potentially going to run off at the mouth the way LR did. He's actually smart to not identify himself... I certainly wouldn't want anyone to know I was such a clueless and blustering a moron.

So, for those of you who decide you want understand what this blog is about, here are some of the key postings:

What? Me, Worry?
Yeah, Alfred E. Neuman's own phrase... I've loved it since I was a kid. It's the very first post I made. It's about my attitude toward Homelessness in general. If LR had read it, he probably wouldn't have decided to start attacking.

A Guide to Proper Conduct
Guidelines for the homeless on how NOT to be a problem. I consider this one of my most important postings, and I stand by everything in it.

Street Guide: Tips for the Newly Homeless
The essential guide survival while Homeless in Livermore. Most but not all of the services, certainly the essential ones. It also has some notes on attitude.

I Am Omelette
This is just my favourite still. It tells about some of the characters you'll encounter if you're homeless.

Money from Cars
About flying a sign (holding a sign, begging for money).

Using Children for Greed
I should have titled this “Abusing Children for Greed” but that's water under the bridge. Boy did I get some flack for this! Even so, I stand by it. It's sort of a follow up to “Money from Cars” that was prompted by a photograph posted on Facebook...

On Methamphetamine
Another one I'm proud of. It was a collaboration with Joe Van Fossen, who is one of the most likeable kids you'll ever meet, and an aspiring doctor who tried to help me understand Meth...

Living out of a Bicycle
This is as personal as I ever plan to get in my blog. People seemed to want to know about me... so I posted this. It's also an insurance policy. My bike is my most valuable possession and that everyone knows who's it is... that's better than State Farm... :)

A Cautionary Tale from San Francisco
What happens when you hand out resources with no standards of behaviour? Big mess! Not pretty. Reading the article in the SF Chronicle felt like a complete vindication even though the author tried to remain sympathetic to failed programs and help them beg for even more money...

Are the rest just filler? Well, that's for you, not me to judge. Some of them are more serious than others. I did two on Baseball because... well, I love Baseball! I didn't include the one on my court battle with Rapist Adam Parris. But if you run into him, he's a rapist... 'nuff said. It's not essential to know the details unless you really want me to spell them out for you. I've done that often enough already.

What you find in the blogs I linked to are the essentials. The ones that give you the true purpose behind this blog. It is NOT about getting people out of being homeless. It is not about keeping people homeless. It is not about apologizing for the homeless.

It is about the homeless surviving and doing so with as much dignity as possible without punishing the people around them. For the volunteers it's about having standards that are enforced and taken seriously. For the public at large it's about not lumping the lot of us into one big trash bag... which Libertus_rebellium seems bent on doing...