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Sarah Palin

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    "Commie Girl" Rebecca Schoenkopf Promises a "Jollier" Wonkette

    ​Here's another reason Rick Santorum is wrong about college: When you go to school, you meet other people who have gone to school, and then later you can call them and interview them for blogs or whatever's left when they're suddenly in the news for doing something awesome. That's what happened to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Examiner Takes a Turn to the Left, Dumps Nutty Right-Wing Screed

    ​The San Francisco Examiner closed out the month of November with a mix of good and bad news. The good -- actually great -- news is that readers will no longer have to swallow the evangelical dogma that was spewed by its former owner, Phil Anschutz. The bad news is the Ex will be delivering its mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Top 5 Reasons Californians Are Moving to Texas

    The word "crisis" has become a ubiquitous term to describe California: Budget crisis, education crisis, water crisis, immigration crisis. Even state parks are, sadly, in a state of "crisis."  With all these crises, it doesn't really surprise us that Californians picked up and left in droves las ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    W. Kamau Bell: Stop Talking Shit About the Occupy Movement!

    ​San Francisco's W. Kamau Bell and his socio-political stand-up comedy sidekicks, Laughter Against the Machine, have traveled around the nation, making stops at six different Occupy Movement camps, including ones in Portland, San Francisco, New York, and New Orleans. And while he acknowledges he's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    W. Kamau Bell: "Stop Talking Shit About the Occupy Movement"

    Me and my socio-political stand-up comedy crew, Laughter Against The Machine, just finished our first national tour. Collectively we went to six Occupations, in New Orleans, Portland, New York, D.C., and San Francisco. And I would like to make a request of you. Stop talking shit about the Occupy Wal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Where Have All the Stoners Gone?

    Hey stoners, do you really want Sarah Palin as an ally?​It's hard to say exactly where the American marijuana movement is at present. For every Alabama, where a Republican state legislator will sponsor a medical marijuana bill to legalize medical cannabis, there's an Arizona or a Montana, where la ... More >>

  • Music

    August 3, 2011

    Silence Is Death at Cobb's Comedy Club

    Hey stoners, do you really want Sarah Palin as an ally?​It's hard to say exactly where the American marijuana movement is at present. For every Alabama, where a Republican state legislator will sponsor a medical marijuana bill to legalize medical cannabis, there's an Arizona or a Montana, where la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" Is a Father's Nightmare -- And We Need More Songs Like It

    Harry Chapin in 1978​A father's fears generally fall into two loosely defined, ever-expanding categories. There's the keep-you-up-at-night, bite-your-nails-to-the-quick worries that focus on money, job security, and child safety. Meanwhile, there's the slightly less hardcore stuff: meetings wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Medical Cannabis Movement Becoming Less Gay

    Chris RobertsHot. But gay unfriendly?​Like Sarah Palin recounting the tale of Paul Revere's ride to warn the British (of their own impending arrival), we Americans often have a fuzzy grasp of our history. This extends to the medical cannabis movement, which was birthed in San Francisco in the 1980 ... More >>

  • Music

    June 1, 2011

    Adele, Future Queen of Divas

    Chris RobertsHot. But gay unfriendly?​Like Sarah Palin recounting the tale of Paul Revere's ride to warn the British (of their own impending arrival), we Americans often have a fuzzy grasp of our history. This extends to the medical cannabis movement, which was birthed in San Francisco in the 1980 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Nancy Pelosi Didn't Help S.F. Restaurants Get Health Care Reform Waivers

    Republicans are just paranoid​Washington Republicans say they're shocked --  shocked that San Francisco restaurants obtained healthcare reform waivers handed out last month by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. They've even spun a conspiracy theory that says Congresswoman Na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Donald Trump Out: S.F Republicans Say Good Riddance

    ​Well-heeled celebrity and hair casualty Donald Trump today pulled the plug on his stupefying flirtation with a run for the presidency -- a campaign that, at least for yours truly, evoked the same feelings as watching Woody Allen make out with his twentysomething leading ladies. But at least Woody ... More >>

  • News

    May 4, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    ​Well-heeled celebrity and hair casualty Donald Trump today pulled the plug on his stupefying flirtation with a run for the presidency -- a campaign that, at least for yours truly, evoked the same feelings as watching Woody Allen make out with his twentysomething leading ladies. But at least Woody ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Six Musicians Who'd Make a Better President Than Donald Trump

    So, it turns out that angling to be a presidential nominee turns you into a massive racist. At least, that's all we've been able to glean so far from Donald Trump's ill-informed and bafflingly ignorant behavior over the last few weeks. "I wanna see Obama's birth certificate! I wanna see Obama's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Jack Davis Birthday Bash: Sodomized With a Whiskey Bottle, Who Could Forget

    When vodka doesn't do it for you... ​It's hard to believe that the Examiner today reports on the "repercussions" of the 1997 Jack Davis birthday bash without mentioning the most damning of all the party antics: A man being sodomized with a Jack Daniel's bottle.Or is it hard to believe? After all, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2011

    Breathing Funny

    When vodka doesn't do it for you... ​It's hard to believe that the Examiner today reports on the "repercussions" of the 1997 Jack Davis birthday bash without mentioning the most damning of all the party antics: A man being sodomized with a Jack Daniel's bottle.Or is it hard to believe? After all, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    The Real Message of Jared Loughner

    Jared Loughner​There's been a lot of ink devoted to analyzing Jared Loughner's motivations in the shooting rampage that left U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) seriously wounded and six others, including a 9-year-old girl, dead. Much of the press attention has focused on the question of whether ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2010

    Predictions for San Francisco 2011

    Jared Loughner​There's been a lot of ink devoted to analyzing Jared Loughner's motivations in the shooting rampage that left U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) seriously wounded and six others, including a 9-year-old girl, dead. Much of the press attention has focused on the question of whether ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    More Loving in the Inner Sunset, Baking for Critters, Brunch on the Farm

    ​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. Exciting news, there's a new Loving Hut coming to the Inner Sunset! Loving Hut is a Supreme Master Ching Hai joint, meaning it may or may not be run by a cult. I mainly don't care as I have a steady resolve when ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Which Comes First? DADT Repeal or Target Store in San Francisco?

    Bad dog! Homophobic! ​The Week in GayDid you miss me? I spent the last week in Buffalo, N.Y., visiting family and NOT getting groped by anyone at any of the four airports I visited. Granted, I had to pass inspection at only two of the four airports, but I kept an open mind about being fondled and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    S.F. Bookstore Offers Profits from George W. Bush's 'Decision Points' to Veteran's Hospital

    This book is now officially good for something​You likely won't be forced to buy George W. Bush's literary attempt, Decision Points. When it comes to investing in presidential apologia, you are the decider. But if, for some undetermined reason, you needed, really needed, to buy W's tome -- you cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Study Finds Many iPhone Users Are Tea Party Supporters (Really)

    Apple's iPhone: The preferred mobile device of semi-literate morons​We certainly wouldn't have seen this one coming. A poll released today by the tech policy group CALinnovates.org reveals that iPhone users -- whom we would have firmly placed in the same consumer class as those who sip lattes and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Transgender Republican Gun Advocate To Speak At San Francisco Gun Conference

    All smiles until messed with...​San Franciscans probably have their ideas about the sort of folks who will descend on the Hyatt Regency airport hotel this weekend for the Second Amendment Foundation's gun rights conference: white, Tea Partyish, Red State-y, straight. Then here comes panelist Nicki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Hunting Season for Liberals Proposed By Bay Area GOP Candidate Brad Goehring

    Brad Goehring: It's liberal-hunting season! ​The would-be Republican challenger to Rep. Jerry McNerney in District-11 has been forced to cop to making a terrible "joke" after posting -- and removing -- a Facebook comment calling for "hunting" liberals. Brad Goehring -- an aptly named man, it would ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    GOP Senate Hopefuls Fiorina, DeVore: Give Guns to Terrorists!

    Carly Fiorina wants no suspected terrorist to go unarmed​Republicans aren't generally big on respecting the constitutional rights of suspected terrorists, but -- as The New York Times' Gail Collins pointed out in a funny column yesterday -- they seem to have found their voice on one thing they don ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Right-Wing Pundits Go Nuts Over 20-Year-Old Feinstein Hand Notes

    This ya gotta love. Conservative commentators are squealing with delight over a video Fox News managed to unearth that reveals California's Sen. Dianne Feinstein scrawled a note on her hand during a 1990 debate with former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson. Calbuzz reports that Feinstein's preferred bons ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2010

    Sharonnn!

    This ya gotta love. Conservative commentators are squealing with delight over a video Fox News managed to unearth that reveals California's Sen. Dianne Feinstein scrawled a note on her hand during a 1990 debate with former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson. Calbuzz reports that Feinstein's preferred bons ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    8 Internet Memes That Just Won't Die

    via webhamster.comThe Hamster Dance Back when the Hamster Dance - a series of animated hamsters dancing to Roger Miller's "Whistle Stop" -  hit the Internet in 1998, few people thought it would be the first of a slew of Internet memes that bounce around our collective consciousness with li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Weekend Web Wroundup - Part I

    Welcome to our first installment of what may (possibly) be a regular feature here on All Shook Down - the Weekend Web Wroundup. GET IT? You see, the name mimics the "www" of the "world wide web" and therefore it...oh FINE. I couldn't think of anything better so Weekend Web Wroundup it is.The WWW (se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    'Air Sex' Championships Headed for San Francisco

    Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Preceding next month's Air Guitar Championships at San Francisco's Independent will be the "Air Sex" showdown -- meaning all we need are some folks pantomiming the shooting up of heroin or toking a bong and we'll have Air Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll. What, ... More >>

  • Music

    February 18, 2009

    Unknown facts about Noise Pop performers

    Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Preceding next month's Air Guitar Championships at San Francisco's Independent will be the "Air Sex" showdown -- meaning all we need are some folks pantomiming the shooting up of heroin or toking a bong and we'll have Air Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll. What, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2009

    Pal o’ Mine

    Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Preceding next month's Air Guitar Championships at San Francisco's Independent will be the "Air Sex" showdown -- meaning all we need are some folks pantomiming the shooting up of heroin or toking a bong and we'll have Air Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll. What, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Let's Get Inaugurated! Enliven Barack Obama's Speech with the Inaugural Drinking Game

    Those of us lucky enough to still have gainful employment as the George W. Bush years stumble to their ignominious thud will be clocking in tomorrow around the time President-elect Barack Obama knocks the "elect" off his title.A rollicking article in the current New Yorker notes that while president ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2009

    Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

    By Phil FreemanIn a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Music

    December 10, 2008

    Yielding to Facebook reunions at Yield

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Against the Odds, One Man Campaigns for McCain in San Francisco

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2008

    Poll: Bay Area Women Think McCain would be a Sneaky Boyfriend

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Cindy Sheehan's Distributing Rubbers? Sounds Like Top-10 List Fodder To Us

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2008

    News & Booze Saturday: What's it Take to Get Somebody Fired at City Hall?

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    Friday Night: Yerba Buena Artists Ball

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    San Franciscans, Environmentalists, Gays Voiceless in VP Debate

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Examiner Swims Against Local Tide

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    Are McCain Backers Flagging Stories on Digg?

    By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

  • Film

    September 10, 2008

    Ladies Light

    Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick.

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    SF Gov InAction: The Supes are Back. Do We Need Them?

    Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick.

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2008

    The Truth About Sarah Palin

    Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick.

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