"What're you protesting against, Johnny?"
"Whaddya got?"
Why protesters who can't stick to the subject deserve nothing but contempt
To those of us who live in the Bay Area, it's old hat by now - but to my family and friends in the Midwest, it's still baffling.
"Wait, so, these people went to protest the local transit cops shooting somebody, and ended up chanting about Palestine?"
Yep. And it's only getting worse. After last night, even some of us here are asking "What does GREECE ha
Even if your room looks like this, you've got to admit the Raiders' stadium plan is bogusIf Oakland politicos and Raiders officials earnestly reported that the sun rotates around the earth or that the world is shaped like a yam, we would expect something other than a cursory retelling in the next day's papers. So why, when the city and team announce that they hope to bring about "economic revitalization" via partly city-funded development centered around a new mega-stadium for the Raiders, are t
Justin Page'I dedicate this touchdown to L'Oreal...'Mayors Gavin Newsom of San Francisco and Ron Dellums of Oakland come from different generations, but both have been assailed by their critics with the same adjective: detached. So no matter who drafts the better team tomorrow in a Yahoo! fantasy football mayoral matchup, critics will be well-armed. If the mayors studiously bone up on their fantasy football rankings and earnestly weigh whether Tom Brady or Drew Brees would be better suited to
Justin PageRon 'Mad Stork' DellumsIn less than three hours time, a stingy baker's dozen of American mayors -- that'd be 11 -- begin an odyssey toward what could be the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat ... to an unnamed office worker. Yes, it's the Yahoo Fantasy Football Mayoral showdown we wrote about yesterday. And 11 mayors is a fitting count as that's the number of players on the gridiron. But it doesn't work for a fantasy football league -- which requires an even number of teams s
Justin PageGavin Newsom's fantasy team went a little Niners heavy...The draft for the Yahoo Mayoral Face-off is in the books and local boys Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums have crafted rosters that resemble the mayors themselves -- flawed, but interesting. The Fantasy Football challenge pits 11 mayors -- and one Yahoo cubicle jockey -- in a contest to determine who will win $30,000 for a charity in his or her home city. Neither hometown mayor likely took the lead role in drafting his team; Newso
Minnesota Mayor R.T. Rybak wants you to know that he feels he's juked Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums on the fantasy football fieldUpdate, 8:59 a.m.: Mayor R.T. Rybak's spokesman, Jeremy Hanson, confirms this is authentic "trash-talking of his political colleagues" from Minnesota's mayor. There's shit, there's shit-talking, and there's political shit-talking -- and the latter has been tossed at both Mayors Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums by a colleague via this very Web site. As we've written a bit
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 ultra-rightwing commentators like Glenn Beck and his Fox News cohorts, to the liberal lefties over at HuffPo and Alternet.
Whatever your take on Jones as an individual and green jobs in general, there's
You may remember a cute little story from the summer in which local mayors Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums participated in a Yahoo fantasy football league -- with the winning mayor to receive a healthy little donation to the charity of his or her choosing. Newsom -- and his right-hand men -- won our praise for thinking of the best name in the league (The Barbary Coast Bombers) and coming up with cool, city-related imagery for the team's Web page. But style is easier to master than substance.Care
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