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    August 5, 2011

    What If Airbnb Hooked Crazies Up with Chainsaws, Instead of Apartments?

    Investors wanted!​At The Snitch, we've been saddened to see the end of the crazy Airbnb story, where travel renters terrorized a lessor by ransacking and stealing from her apartment.We'd like to give it new life by suggesting another start-up business idea: Airbnb for chainsaws.

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Wikileaks' Julian Assange and NYT's Bill Keller Trade Barbs at UC Berkeley

    Matt Smith Assange via skype ​Julian Assange is a paranoid, misguided, smelly bag lady -- not an open government hero. And New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller? Well, he is a cynical dissembler interested more in covering his own ass than telling the truth.A couple hundred journalists, incl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Lance Armstrong-Gavin Newsom Meeting Great Distraction From Doping Investigation

    What, Lance worry?​Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 3, 2010

    March Literary Events

    What, Lance worry?​Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Looking For an Obama Impersonator? We've Got Your Man -- Too Bad No One Knows Where He Is.

    Truly, these are boom times for tall, lanky, light-skinned black men with sonorous voices, large ears, and the desire to be mistaken for someone else. A fascinating recent story on Slate.com shed some light on the increasingly competitive world of Barack Obama impersonators -- who, unlike the presi ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2009

    Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

    Truly, these are boom times for tall, lanky, light-skinned black men with sonorous voices, large ears, and the desire to be mistaken for someone else. A fascinating recent story on Slate.com shed some light on the increasingly competitive world of Barack Obama impersonators -- who, unlike the presi ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2009

    Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

    Truly, these are boom times for tall, lanky, light-skinned black men with sonorous voices, large ears, and the desire to be mistaken for someone else. A fascinating recent story on Slate.com shed some light on the increasingly competitive world of Barack Obama impersonators -- who, unlike the presi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Enviro Sacrifice Watch: No More Clubbing Baby Seals

    MoeLyn PhotosEnvironmentalists came first for my bottled water. And I didn't speak up because I drank Hetch Hetchy springwater on tap. And then they came for my garbage cans, requiring me to separate out recyclables from trash. I didn't speak up, because, well, I thought I could manage. An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Fiona Ma for President?

    Now that Barack Obama has crossed the non-WASP-in-the-White House threshold, which other minority groups might get to produce a president? Mark Oppenheimer explores the question on Slate.com.. Bemusingly, Slate.com readers quickly called Oppenheimer out on his own racial insensitivity because ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2008

    Signs of the Coming Green Dictatorship

    Now that Barack Obama has crossed the non-WASP-in-the-White House threshold, which other minority groups might get to produce a president? Mark Oppenheimer explores the question on Slate.com.. Bemusingly, Slate.com readers quickly called Oppenheimer out on his own racial insensitivity because ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 9, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Now that Barack Obama has crossed the non-WASP-in-the-White House threshold, which other minority groups might get to produce a president? Mark Oppenheimer explores the question on Slate.com.. Bemusingly, Slate.com readers quickly called Oppenheimer out on his own racial insensitivity because ... More >>

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Local Poet-Crank

    August Kleinzahler

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Intrepid Antiwarriors of the Libertarian Right Stake Their Rightful Claim to Power

    Looking into the endearing obsession known as Antiwar.com

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    The Tangled Path to a Response

    As we prepare to retaliate for last week's atrocities, let's take time to be sure of our targets

  • News

    December 18, 1996

    CyberTowne U.S.A.

    Tired of computer gimmickry and gadgetry for Christmas? Prepare for exhaustion!

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