In the state Legislature, there are some things you just don't do. If your Democratic incumbent re-enacts scenes from Mad Max on the interstate, treats her employees in a manner even Naomi Campbell would decry as brutal, and, in general, make enemies at a Bernie Madoff-like pace, you do not run against her. In the name of party unity, whoever works in Sacramento stays in Sacramento. So when Mark Leno set his sights on then-state Senator Carole Migden, it didn't make him a popular man with the mo
When the voice of Tyson Beckford penetrates your head and tells you to enter a dangerous animal's zoo cage, things have become interestingThere's a fine line between bizarre and transcendentally bizarre, and the just-concluded court trial of Kenneth Herron blazed over it. Herron is the man who, for astounding reasons the public only discovered this week, entered the San Francisco Zoo's Grizzly Bear Grotto in September. The bar for amazing legal theater shouldn't have been difficult to clear i