] With Willie Brown finally leaving his gold (plated), ] diamond-encrusted throne, there has been no shortage of ] hats thrown into the mayoral ring. San Francisco politics ] are now a microcosm of California's own, greater ] gubernatorial "challenges." Rather than confuse ] you with endorsements, position papers and other outmoded ] means of political influence, we've decided to get ] to the bottom of the only question that matters: Is a ] particular candidate human or an insidious replicant, ] possessed of physical strength and computational ] abilities far exceeding our own, but lacking empathy and ] possibly even bent on our destruction as a species? ] ] The only reliable method that we know of for sniffing out ] replicants is the Voight-Kampff Test, created by Phillip ] K. Dick in his book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ] and later used by Harrison Ford's character, ] Deckard, in the film Blade Runner. Issuing the Voight-Kampff Test to San Francisco Mayoral Candidates |