Subject: Colin Powell

• Michael Phelps, Motivational Speaker, Headed to San Francisco -- 'Get Fired Up!'

  Michael Phelps, who deviated from a training-driven lifestyle that put Communist Chinese programs for 12-year-olds to shame only to channel Frank "The Tank" Ricard with a boozy, druggy bacchanal at the University of South Carolina is coming here.A full-page spread in the Sunday Chronicle pitched the forthcoming "Get Motivated! Business Seminar," featuring speakers such as Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani as well as Phelps. In addition to Phelps' speech on "competitiveness," one can presumably lear

  February 9, 2009

• Slap Shots

  September 27, 1995

• The Son Also Rises

  Oliver Stone on W. and the president who would be John Wayne.

  October 22, 2008

• Bush's Brain

  Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's M.O., but at this point, who cares?

  October 15, 2008

• Craig$list.com

  November 30, 2005

• Taking the Bait

  Chris Finley's art dives below the surface

  December 22, 2004

• Reps Etc.

  November 3, 2004

• Reps Etc.

  October 27, 2004

• Reps Etc.

  October 20, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, April 28, 2004

  April 28, 2004

• Intrepid Antiwarriors of the Libertarian Right Stake Their Rightful Claim to Power

  Looking into the endearing obsession known as Antiwar.com

  December 10, 2003

• The World According to Bechtel

  There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• It's a Bechtel World

  Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of May 7, 2003

  May 7, 2003

• Regime Changing

  This all-American kid from Monterey is now one of the foremost experts on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Where does he go from here?

  May 7, 2003

• Shock and Brouhaha

  March 26, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of March 5, 2003

  March 5, 2003

• Dog Bites

  February 5, 2003

• The FCC wants to shut down "Your Revolution"

  The revolution will not be televised, or broadcast, or even relayed via smoke signals.

  June 27, 2001

• Asking, Telling

  The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

  January 31, 2001

• What's Green and Black and Blue All Over?

  Maybe Nader voters should be slapped around a bit; their leftist purity will likely bring us four very squalid years

  November 15, 2000

• Interview with Tom Ammiano

  December 1, 1999

• Bites

  August 21, 1996

• Blowing Smoke

  August 14, 1996

• Suspicious Minds

  July 24, 1996

• Gypped

  July 10, 1996

• The Lip-Music Artist

  November 8, 1995

• Night+Day

  September 20, 1995

• Spoofing the run-up to war, In the Loop is political satire done right

  July 22, 2009

• In the Loop

  July 22, 2009

• In the Loop

  November 4, 2009