The Berkeley History Center is holding an exhibition of how much we rule, titled "Berkeley, a City of Firsts," detailing how our town got in the sack with Lady Innovation and rocked her to pieces at least ten times throughout this past century.

The Berkeley Historical Society likes to distribute this following list of the following innovations that our town de-virginized:

1910 Bicycle patrols - the first wheeled patrols of any kind - by the city's police officers

1921 Radios in police patrol cars

1923 Lie-detector machines - introduced by town Marshal Gus Vollmer

1968 Voluntary integration of the public schools in the city

1982 Commercial rent control

1984 Equal benefits for domestic partners

1989 A citywide ban on Styrofoam

2001 City condemnation of U.S. and allied bombing of Afghanistan

2003 Conversion of city vehicles to operate on biodiesel

2006 Ballot measure to fight global warming - passed by city's voters

The City Council would like us to read that a couple more times, memorize it, and then go tell everyone who how much better we are then them.

If a city could masturbate, this would be it.