At the Commonwealth Club on Thursday evening, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee spent an hour discussing the challenges facing San Francisco. Lee admitted that he’s confused as to why anyone would be critical of the private transit system set up by Google and other companies exclusively to shuttle their employees to Silicon Valley.

“I understand why those protests were [directed] at Google buses, but they didn’t make sense to me because all people were doing was trying to get to work.”

Yeah, why would working class people facing displacement from their homes and communities use the ubiquitous, largely unmarked and unregulated buses as a symbol of the transformation of San Francisco into a bedroom community run by politicians focused on serving corporate interests when it might make a handful of people a few minutes late to work? Who knows!

We’ve compiled a list of other brain teasers that Lee can contemplate when his driver is stuck in traffic between meetings with venture capitalists, technology lobbyists and real estate developers:

• Cronuts
• Who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep, and how did the car end up under water?
• Happy Mondays lyrics
• The offsides rule
• Shingy
• Everything written by Judith Butler
• Gavin Newsom’s hair
• Naked shorts
• The Poincaré conjecture
• Normcore
• Fucking magnets, how do they work?

[Photo Commonwealth Club]