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Rumor maven: In her Scoop column for the Yummy Letter, GraceAnn Walden writes about Nate Appleman like he's a superplayer in a class with A-Rod and Mark Sanford. Last week the Chron broke the story that the inked, stocky chef was booking from A16 and SPQR. In classic gossip-rag style, Walden drops a sentence that's hard to interpret, except that it reeks of easy sleaze. After lobbing the bomblet that Appleman's wife and son have retreated to
Supervisor Chris DalyThose of us who don't fancy ourselves to be Che Guevara have had a lot of fun this past week attacking Chris Daly for being a hypocrite. Those of us who believe that someday we will lead the revolution have praised Daly by saying he remains ideologically pure.
Both sides have got it all wrong. Chris Daly's hypocrisy is real -- yet praiseworthy.
That's because, in a situation like his, the alternatives to hypocrisy are all so much worse. There's a word for som