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Fellow Republicans: A Five-Point to Stop Our Asses From Getting Kicked

To: Lovers of America From: The Republican National Committee RE: Emergency platform changes Dear Patriots: It seems that 47 percent was somewhat larger than we anticipated in last week's election. Henceforth, we urge all Republicans to adopt these immediate policy changes.

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: A Guide to the Republican National Convention

S.F. Not the Welfare State of Conservative Nightmares, New York Times Finds

​San Francisco is a favorite punching bag of right-wing provocateurs who decry it as a West Coast bastion of European-style socialism. (Whatever that might be.) Sadly, even some of our city's local journalists buy into the pat image of San Francisco as a cautionary tale of the excesses of expansiv ... More >>

The Park on Drinking Baileys with Wallpaper., Appearing on Carson Daly's TV Show, and What Song They'd Play for Mitt Romney

You've heard The Park, even if you don't recognize the name. As the Bay Area's most in-demand rhythm section, the trio quartet of Derek Taylor (drums), Josh Lippi (bass), Ben Schwier (keys), and Nate Mercereau (guitar) has laid down backing grooves for new-generation rap chaps Freddie Gibbs and Big ... More >>

Assessing Metallica After 30 Years and Four Nights at the Fillmore

Five Reasons Tyler, the Creator Suuucks

The first time we saw Tyler the Creator's video for "Yonkers," we were totally blown away. It was sharp, it was dark, it was infectious, it was crazy different. We immediately got all excited about this new rapper and his collective, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All... until we realized they' ... More >>

Amy Winehouse's Website Hacked with Lil B Prank: Full Mayhemic Text Here

Not swag?​ As if anything could get worse for Amy Winehouse: Yesterday, her last bastion of unmarred public image -- her website -- got hacked. There weren't any references to her drug and alcohol problems, though. Instead, what you get is a profane prank from apparent fans of Berkeley rapper ... More >>

Dianne Feinstein Tells Francisco to Go Smoke a Fat One

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, San Francisco.​Wait, not all of your tax dollars are wasted in San Francisco. Your local bureaucrats make it part of their job to send a letter every February to state and federal politicians restating the city's desire that the government legalize marijuana. No ... More >>

Does Berkeley Hate America?

​It pains us, Dear Reader, to ask the question. We like Berkeley. It has nice fruit trees and bright college students. But ask we must, because the Berkeley City Council has given us no choice.I mean, come on. When you schedule votes on two resolutions -- one supporting alleged Wikileaker Bradley ... More >>

Ludacris Performs at Slim's August 8 -- Do You Have Enough Blunt Wraps?

​Ludacris might be a completely sane, polite, business-savvy person in real life, but frankly, we prefer the bling-swingin', haunches-obsessed ruffian he plays on stage. (Or, as Bill O'Reilly called him, the "vile thug." They later made up.) The vile thug/Chris Bridges/Luda hits the Slim's stage ( ... More >>

Belarus Communists, Like San Francisco Communists, Hate Pillow Fights

Fight the power -- with pillows!​Kidding! We know that, no matter what Bill O'Reilly thinks, San Francisco isn't really run by communists. At least not exclusively.Still, after the travails our fair city has been through with irresponsible flash mobs converging on Justin Herman Plaza for massive p ... More >>

Bill O'Reilly Blathers On About San Francisco -- to Jeff Adachi

​FOX bloviator Bill O'Reilly seems to have the same attitude toward San Francisco that 20th-century Germans had toward France: Loves the place, but just can't stand all the damn people who live there. So it was interesting to watch O'Reilly going on about San Francisco this weekend, claiming to ad ... More >>

Prop. 8 Cast Goes to Court ... And Gets Celebrity Doppelgangers

​When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cameras would not be permitted to film Perry v. Schwarzenegger,  directors John Ireland and John Ainsworth, along with a band of volunteer actors, decided to reenact the entire Prop. 8 trial and post the results to Youtube. Until today, the actors relie ... More >>

The Week in Gay -- Laura Bush wants Elena Kagan (To Be Able To Get Married).

Elena, step up to the plate and tell us how you really feel...​Frankly, I don't care if Elena Kagan never looks at her own vagina let alone anyone else's. But I do care about how LGBT matters are discussed, because that narrative reveals an awful lot about how inept, ignorant, bigoted, fearful ... More >>

Hit Pieces: Demon Sheep, Candidate Inc., Gavin Newsom & Bill O'Reilly Smitten

Quick political bytes from the week that went down easy. Carly Fiorina's bizarre attack ad against her Republican primary opponent for senate, Tom Campbell: An evil furry dressed like a sheep who wants to raise your taxes. This video has gone totally viral. People are e-mailing it around and t ... More >>

Enough Already with the End-of-Year and End-of-Decade Lists!

​For the past two months, we've seen so many silly end-of-year and end-of-decade lists rolling across our computer screens -- via Facebook, blogs, newspapers -- we're inclined to compile our own silly list of our least favorite ones. For starters, we'd go with this little tasting menu of sus ... More >>

The Guardian's Illustrated, Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy -- Did You Know Spain Was Involved?

We're not exactly unaccustomed to paranoid political thinking in the pages of our rival weekly here in San Francisco. But the journos at the Bay Guardian have taken their conspiracy theories to new levels -- and depicted them in bolder-than-ever graphics -- in this week's issue.Appearing alongside a ... More >>

Hip Hop Responds to Van Jones Drama

EKAphotographyAli Chagi-Starr, Van Jones (c), and Ron Dellums at Silence the Violence Day, 2007​ By now, everyone and they mama has heard that controversial green jobs adviser Van Jones has been forced to resign from his white house job. There are many differing takes on the subject, from ultr ... More >>

Bay Area Lawmakers Among Obama's Worst Frenemies

Bay Area residents rejoicing over the historic inauguration of Barack Obama might want to take heed of an assessment of their elected representatives featured yesterday on Politico, the political news Web site. Writer Glenn Thrush posted a top-ten list of Democrats who pose a threat to Obama's agend ... More >>

Let's Get Inaugurated! Enliven Barack Obama's Speech with the Inaugural Drinking Game

Those of us lucky enough to still have gainful employment as the George W. Bush years stumble to their ignominious thud will be clocking in tomorrow around the time President-elect Barack Obama knocks the "elect" off his title.A rollicking article in the current New Yorker notes that while president ... More >>

Bill O'Reilly Explores Dark Underbelly of San Francisco

We're a bit late to the party on this one, but it's too good not to post. Bill O'Reilly sent one of his ace reporters to explore the "dark underbelly" of San Francisco that, according to him, will only get worse now that Obama is in office and the radical left has been "emboldened." Keeping it c ... More >>

Janeane Garofalo and Mary Lynn Rajskub at Cobbs: Today’s Calendar Pick

The Mouth on This Woman

'The Kingdom' Posits CSI: Riyadh with a Jamie Foxx Twist

Peter Berg sends Foxx to fight the enemy over there

Nothing in Common

To right-wingers, all rap is the same. It's not.

Huffington's in a Huff

Brains, Brawn, and Balls

A few choice selections from Rock the Bells' lineup

Radical Chick

You can't tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

Family Values

Gomorrah by the Bay

The GOP's last-ditch message to voters before the midterm elections was a tirade against our fair city. How do you feel about San Francisco values in the political spotlight?

Brave New World

M. Ward creates a Post-War state

The Man Who Would Be Feinstein

So you've never heard of Christopher Dahl. He'd still like to be your U.S. Senator.

Useless Resolve

The Board of Supes likes to tell the world what to do. The world could care less.

Olive Woo Murphy 1/08/03 – 3/29/06

Moonbat Is on the Air

Conservative radio host tries to teach Infiltrator rules of right-wing punditry

Keep It Really Real

Willie Brown acknowledges his cronies fed at the city trough? Now that's funny.

Tower of Babble

Bill O'Reilly wants terrorists to bomb Coit Tower because we're a bunch of sissies. Whose side are you on?

The Cho-sen

A comedian writes a serious book: Now that's funny

Letters to the Editor

The Brink of Understanding

This new experimental music series will help you understand what all the noise is about

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Sassiness Explored

Artists with disabilities -- and attitude

Examiner De-Fanged

"We'll analyze without prejudgment ... and reject ideologues of whatever stripe."

Our Girl Reporter

The return of Lois Lane

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Columbine Harvester

Michael Moore goes threshing about in search of fear itself

Crushing a Contrarian

The "patriotic" squelching of Bill Maher is a scary sign of an emerging groupthink