Top dog

I suppose there are women who would do battle to become the queen bee (Lorena Gonzalez flies to mind) but they're the exception, not the rule.  On the other hand, the lineup of San Diego males practicing back-stabbing techniques to become emperor… potentate… sultan…snakes the entire length of I-805 and back again.  

Our local warriors come in different shapes and modes -- from the programmed-android Carl DeMaio... to the sybarite Doug Manchester... to the changeling-striver Nathan Fletcher... to the overweening Jan Goldsmith... to the Brutus-clone Todd Gloria (why he'd identify with James Mason instead of Marlon Brando is beyond me).  They're panting hard at the prospect of unseating the obstinate Bob Filner, on whose head the crown currently rests.

It's not even springtime past the 2012 November election but the word is trickling out that 2014 (just around the corner) is the year of choice for a pitched battle to recall Mayor Filner