Proud of: Edgar Allen Poe, Jack Kerouac, Martin Luther King, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, The Doors, Stephen King, jazz, the blues, Anne Rice, Nirvana, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bay Area Thrash Metal, what little wilderness is left, Elvis, Andy Warhol, kickass amusement parks, the Florida death metal scene, The Ramones; a segment of the population here that actually gives a damn about important social and political issues; The Cramps, Noam Chomsky, Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Joan Jett...etc.
Not proud: the Bush family, the religious right, 21st century imperialism, globalization, companies like Nike that use sweatshops, McDonalds, Wal-Mart (evil!), gated communities, stupid materialistic people (there's a lot of them) that blab away on cell phones while hogging the road in their SUVs, commerical radio (it sucks!), the Patriot Act, conservative members of the government who want to tell women what to do with their bodies, the drug war (a waste of time-legalize everything to get rid of the crime!), the KKK (inbred bestial morons), and xenophobia...