Jon Carroll is a columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle", beginning in 1982. He is featured on the backpage of the Datebook (the newspaper's entertainment section) on weekdays. Locally, he is best known for his moderate-to-liberal politics and his cat columns. On the internet, he is known for starting the Unitarian Jihad movement. Carroll was born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Pasadena. He attended (but did not finish) UC Berkeley. Wikipedia
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