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Jerry Brown's Office Mad at Fox News Over "Fiction" Budget Story

California Gov. Jerry Brown has asked Fox News to do what some might believe to be seemingly impossible for the conservative news outlet: Quit spewing untruths. The governor's press secretary fired off a slew of e-mails to Fox News claiming reporters over there had stretched the truth again -- in t ... More >>

Sandy Hook Shooting: Technology and Law Should Serve Us, Not Control Us

On Friday, not long after the Sandy Hook shootings, NPR's political editor Ken Rudin took to Facebook to tell his followers: As tempting as it may be to once again debate guns and gun contro -- and try to come to grips with this madness -- we know nothing is going to change. The fault/blame for th ... More >>

S.F. Asks Federal Court to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Ban on Naked People

San Francisco's City Attorney is attempting to block public nudists from taking the city to court over its recently passed nudity ban. City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed a motion in federal court, hoping a judge would dismiss the nudists' lawsuit challenging the city's ban on most public nud ... More >>

Muslim Hunting: David Horowitz's Antagonistic Career

San Francisco's City Attorney is attempting to block public nudists from taking the city to court over its recently passed nudity ban. City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed a motion in federal court, hoping a judge would dismiss the nudists' lawsuit challenging the city's ban on most public nud ... More >>

Nudity Ban: City Business Carries On, Now Clothed

San Francisco's City Attorney is attempting to block public nudists from taking the city to court over its recently passed nudity ban. City Attorney Dennis Herrera today filed a motion in federal court, hoping a judge would dismiss the nudists' lawsuit challenging the city's ban on most public nud ... More >>

Worst New Song of the Week: Trace Adkins Does Right-Wing Nonsense

If you were masochistic enough to sit through the coverage of the Republican National Convention in its entirety, then you'd have heard good ol' country boy Trace Adkins doing a heartfelt rendition of a song titled "Tough People Do" (which is ironic given that Mitt Romney hasn't had a tough day in h ... More >>

How to Speak Republican: Decoding the GOP

If you were masochistic enough to sit through the coverage of the Republican National Convention in its entirety, then you'd have heard good ol' country boy Trace Adkins doing a heartfelt rendition of a song titled "Tough People Do" (which is ironic given that Mitt Romney hasn't had a tough day in h ... More >>

Hank Williams Jr. Declares Himself Too Ballsy for Fox News, Republicans, Reality

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Hank Williams, Jr. -- son of the original country music godhead, former Monday Night Football announcer, and official neck-beard of Nashville -- reminds us all just how big his freedom-loving balls are. This, remember is the man whose gargantuan testicles supp ... More >>

Anderson Cooper Is Gay and Not Even Fox Commenters Seem too Bothered

CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper finally came out of the closet, revealing in an e-mail to blogger Andrew Sullivan that he is gay -- and damn proud. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."Of course, Fox News picked up ... More >>

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Worry

CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper finally came out of the closet, revealing in an e-mail to blogger Andrew Sullivan that he is gay -- and damn proud. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."Of course, Fox News picked up ... More >>

Dirty Fun -- Fox News Says So

CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper finally came out of the closet, revealing in an e-mail to blogger Andrew Sullivan that he is gay -- and damn proud. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."Of course, Fox News picked up ... More >>

Ann Coulter and Her Awful Comments About Occupy

Shut up, already!​If we can credit Ann Coulter with anything, it's giving people new reasons to despise her -- and that's being polite. She proved her ability to stir up a white-hot hatred among people again when she went on San Francisco's KSFO this morning where she talked about her new book and ... More >>

Why Musicians Matter to the Occupy Movement

​It's been over two weeks since the protest in SF's financial district commenced -- prompted by the occupation of Wall Street that started almost a month ago -- and four days since Oakland joined this now apparently worldwide movement. As we all know, Occupy Wall Street was outright ignored by mai ... More >>

Protesting in the Streets -- Top 10 Political Street Art

John Boehner makes a cameo at 18th and Valencia.​We spotted this John Boehner street art gem Tuesday night in the Mission, and it got us thinking -- political street art is pretty rad, and sometimes pretty radical. San Francisco definitely has its fair share, but, of course, we're not the onl ... More >>

Bake on with Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger

​Listen to this while high: Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger ​Behind the buzz: Thursday's upcoming S.F. stop on the Soundgarden reunion tour will no doubt kick a groaning board of ass, so anyone desirous of a preliminary bombardment would do well to crank up this third album and sophomore effort on ... More >>

"2012 — The Musical!": S.F. Mime Troupe Big on Idealogy, Short on Entertainment

​Listen to this while high: Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger ​Behind the buzz: Thursday's upcoming S.F. stop on the Soundgarden reunion tour will no doubt kick a groaning board of ass, so anyone desirous of a preliminary bombardment would do well to crank up this third album and sophomore effort on ... More >>

Fox News Twitter Account Hacked, Claims President Obama Assassinated

Don't believe Fox News​No worries, folks: Barack Obama is still the leader of the United States, much to the disappointment of Fox News followers. The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that some idiot hackers thought they'd have a little fun with Fox News and give us another reason not to ... More >>

SFGate.com Readers Are Crazy Old Men

Avid Sfgate.com reader​If you've ever been reading SF Gate comments and had the image of a old man sitting on a porch wearing long pajamas and brandishing a shotgun, well, you've got some data to back you up now.According to a new report published by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence ... More >>

Is it Osama or Obama Bin Laden?

Fox News probably doesn't think there is a difference between Osama and Obama​Twitter was abuzz after Fox News made the Freudian slip yesterday when announcing that Obama, not Osama, bin Laden is dead. Sure, the names are off by only one letter, but that one letter spells the difference between th ... More >>

Self-Immolation for Laughs

Fox News probably doesn't think there is a difference between Osama and Obama​Twitter was abuzz after Fox News made the Freudian slip yesterday when announcing that Obama, not Osama, bin Laden is dead. Sure, the names are off by only one letter, but that one letter spells the difference between th ... More >>

Ground Zero in the Culture Wars

Fox News probably doesn't think there is a difference between Osama and Obama​Twitter was abuzz after Fox News made the Freudian slip yesterday when announcing that Obama, not Osama, bin Laden is dead. Sure, the names are off by only one letter, but that one letter spells the difference between th ... More >>

"Unstoppable": Denzel Washington and Chris Pine save smalltown USA

Fox News probably doesn't think there is a difference between Osama and Obama​Twitter was abuzz after Fox News made the Freudian slip yesterday when announcing that Obama, not Osama, bin Laden is dead. Sure, the names are off by only one letter, but that one letter spells the difference between th ... More >>

S.F. Bedbug Website Spawns Bogus Trend Stories Nationwide

Louis De Vos, Université Libre de BruxellesNow you see me...​The website Bedbugregistry.com, run by San Franciscan Maciej Ceglowski, takes pains to note that its anonymous reports of insect sitings should not be taken as hard evidence of a plague. But that hasn't stopped newspaper and television ... More >>

Travel writer Edward Hasbrouck sues Homeland Security over travel data

Louis De Vos, Université Libre de BruxellesNow you see me...​The website Bedbugregistry.com, run by San Franciscan Maciej Ceglowski, takes pains to note that its anonymous reports of insect sitings should not be taken as hard evidence of a plague. But that hasn't stopped newspaper and television ... More >>

Pelosi to Musicians: Quit Your Day Jobs

Dear Musicians, Speaker Nancy has a word of advice: Shove that nine-to-five and strike out on the road. Hell, stage-dive -- you'll have health care now. She recently told a summit: "We see it as an entrepreneurial bill -- a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or ... More >>

Report: John Mark Karr, Reputed Pedophile, Formed Cult of JonBenet Lookalikes

​John Mark Karr, the creep-o who falsely claimed in 2006 to have murdered JonBenet Ramsey in 1996, has upped his creep-o ante. He's allegedly gotten a sex change, started a JonBenet Cult, and made death threat to one escaped cult member, a 19-year-old San Francisco woman who was once Karr's fourth ... More >>

Favorite Haunts

​John Mark Karr, the creep-o who falsely claimed in 2006 to have murdered JonBenet Ramsey in 1996, has upped his creep-o ante. He's allegedly gotten a sex change, started a JonBenet Cult, and made death threat to one escaped cult member, a 19-year-old San Francisco woman who was once Karr's fourth ... More >>

Chronic City: Marijuana, Money, and the Media

Compassion Family MinistriesYes, Grasshopper... Money grows on killa trees.Things are smoking on the marijuana front, and I'm not just talking about the ringing cash registers at newly emboldened dispensaries statewide. Time after time this week, the media brought together money and marijuana in pub ... More >>

Chronic City: Best Use Yet For Twitter -- Buying Weed

Artists CollectiveEntrepreneurship meets idealism?In a case of good old American entrepreneurship, one medical marijuana merchant has taken advantage of the Twitter craze to turbocharge sales and receive the kind of media attention that no amount of money can buy.With the number of legal medical mar ... More >>

All Polled: Kim vs. Jenn, Gavin vs. Antonio

Perhaps you have already caught wind of the SF Mexican Consulate's recent gaffe, in which they referred in a press release to speaker Kimberly Guilfoyle as the wife of Mayor Gavin Newsom. She hasn't been for some time. We all know that the mayor's current betrothed is Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the not ... More >>

David Denby's attack on snark too earnest

Perhaps you have already caught wind of the SF Mexican Consulate's recent gaffe, in which they referred in a press release to speaker Kimberly Guilfoyle as the wife of Mayor Gavin Newsom. She hasn't been for some time. We all know that the mayor's current betrothed is Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the not ... More >>

Beginnings of an LGBT Media Empire?

Lawyers and executives this week announced the formation of Here Media, an "LGBT media powerhouse" formed through a merger of several companies catering to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender consumers. While the resulting entity isn't exactly Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it does represent ... More >>

Friday Night: Nas at the Warfield

NasThe Warfield November 28, 2008 Notes by Jackie Lopez Better Than: The "Untitled" Album (and that album is pretty amazing). Nas has been rocking the hip-hop crowd since 1992; that's saying a lot considering the game has been changing and he's managed to stay on top. In 1998, he joined Lauryn Hil ... More >>

Class of 2000 Standouts

NasThe Warfield November 28, 2008 Notes by Jackie Lopez Better Than: The "Untitled" Album (and that album is pretty amazing). Nas has been rocking the hip-hop crowd since 1992; that's saying a lot considering the game has been changing and he's managed to stay on top. In 1998, he joined Lauryn Hil ... More >>

Infiltrating AshleyMadison.com

“I feel guilty I'm making cheaters and two-timers pay $2.75 to contact me”

Burnout Paradise Rekindles Auto Erotica on PS3, XBOX 360

“I feel guilty I'm making cheaters and two-timers pay $2.75 to contact me”

Jon Carroll's Cat Wishes She Was Ann Coulter's Cat

“I feel guilty I'm making cheaters and two-timers pay $2.75 to contact me”

The Call of Katrina

Dirty Dozen Brass Band gives sonic insight into New Orleans' stormy history

Who Killed It?

Nas and the right wing vie for the heart of hip hop

Misc. Reviews

Ghost Ride: The Blog

Hot Air

Richard Branson's phony plans to fight global warming, his Virgin startup at SFO, and the Fox host who missed a dig

Greening the Left

Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results

The Minuteman's 15 Minutes of Fame (Minute 14.5)

At the Arizona border, Infiltrator checks in with Americans who help the government look for illegal aliens

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

At the Arizona border, Infiltrator checks in with Americans who help the government look for illegal aliens

Sassiness Explored

Artists with disabilities -- and attitude

The Company Line

A new film denouncing corporate ruthlessness could use some downsizing of its own

Bush Comes to Shove

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 14, 2003

The Poindexter Effect

Digging into the architect of Total Information Awareness unearths good news: Ordinary Americans value civil liberties