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Even Rush Limbaugh Thinks Gay Marriage Is Going to Happen

Holy shit! The man who hates everyone and everything that isn't him (straight, white, male) has conceded that gay marriage is inevitable in this country. That's right, the tireless conservative Rush Limbaugh used the phrases "gay marriage" and "there is going to be" in the same sentence. Period. M ... More >>

Leland Yee Has the Best Enemies

As noted on this very page, an allegedly unhinged engineer is accused of threatening Sen. Leland Yee with a makeshift bomb. The San Francisco legislator will address the media shortly, and claim that his legislation attempting to reign in the deadliest of military-style firearms was the impetus for ... More >>

There Are No Conservatives Worth Following on Social Media

"Follow liberally," exhorts Liz Heron. "You never know who will lead you to discover something unique or important." This is one of "The Rules of Social Media" that Fast Company thinks we all should adhere to. Heron, who runs social media for the Wall Street Journal, doesn't mean "liberally" in a p ... More >>

Sen. Leland Yee Is Getting Threats Over His "Un-American" Gun-Control Bill

State Sen. Leland Yee has riled up conservatives again, and not exactly the kind of right-wingers you want to make mad. CBS reports that Yee's office has been fielding threats from gun enthusiasts who have launched a vicious campaign against the San Francisco Democrat's proposed gun-control bill. Se ... More >>

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Ani DiFranco on Rush Limbaugh, Protest Songs, and Being a Mom

Ani DiFranco on Rush Limbaugh, Protest Songs, and Being a Mom

​If you thought Ani DiFranco has mellowed out and gone away just because she got all jazzy, became a mom, and won a Grammy for Best Recording Package, then you haven't heard ¿Which Side Are You On?, her best and most politically-charged album in many a year. In conversation she's no less artfully ... More >>

Tracie McMillan Speaks On The American Way of Eating, May Not Leave You Hungry

​What: Food author Tracie McMillan talks about what's wrong with the American food industry. Where: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez Street. When: Thursday, March 22 from 6 to 7 p.m. Cost: Your appetite-- what McMillan says may not leave you hungryThe Rundown:  ... More >>

SOPA, Limbaugh, Komen: This Is What Happens When the Mob is Right

​There is far too much cheerleading for the "wisdom of crowds." The undiscerning among us, often motivated by an understandable (if often mindless) disgust with institutions, tend to employ buzzwords like "crowdsourcing" and to preach the idea that "the people" are always right even if "the people ... More >>

Sandra Fluke's Most Crude and Cowardly Online Attackers: A Literary Analysis

​Because she had the temerity to be a woman in America with an opinion about something, Sandra Fluke has spent the last week being both attacked and honored by people who have not read or watched the testimony she gave before congress but still somehow know everything about her. Rush Limbaugh, tha ... More >>

Netflix Says That Actually it Doesn't Advertise with Rush Limbaugh at All

​For the last year or so, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has been behaving like the hero of Brewster's Millions or some other sad 80s comedy (probably available for streaming!) where the hero has to piss away a fortune or a corporation or something while pretending to be a reasonable person. (This was ... More >>

KSFO's JD Hayworth Tells Rush Limbaugh's Advertisers "We'd Love to Have You Over Here"

​Former congressman JD Hayworth hosts the most gentlemanly three hours in conservative talk radio, twinkling warmly over the 9 a.m.-to-noon shift at KSFO 560 with all the fire and fury of the avuncular God up in the stars at the opening of It's a Wonderful Life. He chats up the issues of the day, ... More >>

Leland Yee Gets Another Threatening Fax

Attracts all kinds of attention​SF Weekly readers might recall the death threat that was faxed to State Sen. Leland Yee earlier this year after he called on conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking Asians on his how. It wasn't the first time Yee, who is running for San Fr ... More >>

Leland Yee Fans Support Boycott of Rush Limbaugh

Yummy pizza, yucky politics​Just yesterday State Sen. Leland Yee received racists death threats from someone who presumably supports Rush Limbaugh and probably believes Sarah Palin is a liberal. In the last 24 hours since the death threats were faxed to Yee's offices in Sacramento and San Francisc ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Supporter Sends Leland Yee Death Threats

Wanted an apology, but got death threats instead.​State Sen. Leland Yee received death threats after the San Francisco Democrat asked conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking the Chinese language in his radio show last week.Yee's staffers said the messages came via fax th ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Mocks Chinese Language, Leland Yee Demands Apology

How Do You Say 'Stupid' in Chinese?​Up until now, the nation was focused on Sarah Palin's thick-headedness, but it appears Rush Limbaugh is shifting the focus, hitting a new low as he mocked the Chinese during his radio show today. Local politicos are cringing at Limbaugh's crudeness, pointing out ... More >>

Would Gas Have to Cost $9 a Gallon to Meet Emission Goals?

Fill 'er up -- for $135!​Those of us not named Rush Limbaugh know that in order to prevent the world from devolving into a giant Mad Max set, we've got to drive less. So as California's politicians and environmental regulators set ambitious emission reduction targets to combat global warming, the ... More >>

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The Week in Gay - Vaughn Walker returns! Obama serves cocktails! Elton rims Rush!

Lennon then Limbaugh -- why not?​ OK ok ok ok...Elton John didn't really perform anal-lingus on Rush Limbaugh - technically - but he was paid $1 million to sing at Limbaugh's 4th (FOURTH) wedding last weekend and as far as I'm concerned Elton's breath will always smell like Rush's ass from now o ... More >>

S.F. Lawyer Launches Anti-Limbaugh Web Site

Would you eat McNuggets made from this?"It's time to start calling a chicken a chicken," San Francisco attorney Steve Baughman says of his latest Web endeavor. The chicken in question, it so happens, could probably feed many of the homeless encamped in Golden Gate Park -- that is, if you could ever ... More >>

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