The Pentagon

"Zero Dark Thirty:" The Long, Dark Night

Hemp Farming Still Illegal, Obama Provides Convenient Scapegoat

If and when Tea Party hero Sen. Rand Paul visits San Francisco and goes shopping, he'll find friendly faces in the aisles of Rainbow Grocery more quickly than he will any Safeway (especially the Castro location). In addition to the destruction of all government, the Kentucky Republican has legislate ... More >>

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 >>

Week in Gay: Ted Haggard is Bisexual and Anderson Cooper has a 'Companion'

Coming after cousin Geri​This edition of The Week in Gay is a potpourri (either a miscellaneous collection of stories or a mixture of dried flowers and spices) of four categories - plus an extra special bonus!Included are updates on the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the latest stories from San F ... More >>

DADT Repeal: With All Deliberate Speed -- Or None At All?

​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

A Kinder, Gentler - and Still Unconstitutional - DADT

​The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>

You Mean It’s True? Damn.

​The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>

War: What Is It Good For?

​The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>

The Week in Gay: Dan Choi Eats!

Well, the good news is, Lt. Dan Choi can probably fit back in his old uniform now...​Lt. Dan Choi chose life this week by putting an end to his "dignity fast." Choi explains that his fast was a success because people were educated about the political history of hunger strikes. But, I think his ... More >>

It's Hemp Week! And San Francisco Says 'Meh.'

Courtesy Adam Eidinger/Hemp History WeekLyster H. Dewey, a botanist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measures a four-meter high hemp plant in 1929. He planted a grove on the current site of the Pentagon. ​ Cannabis users stole hemp farmers' fire It's easy to be overburdened with activis ... More >>

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Courtesy Adam Eidinger/Hemp History WeekLyster H. Dewey, a botanist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measures a four-meter high hemp plant in 1929. He planted a grove on the current site of the Pentagon. ​ Cannabis users stole hemp farmers' fire It's easy to be overburdened with activis ... More >>

S.F. Landlord Paranoid About Chocolate Goodness

Laszlo Toth/laughingsquid.com​SFist has kindly alerted us to a rather unsavory conspiracy theory brewing on Nob Hill. In a guest post at Laughing Squid, author Laszlo Toth reports on a note posted to the door of 1519 Polk Street, a former retail location of See's Candies."Your ... More >>

Guantánamo's Last Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

This Is Not a Military Hangar

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

All the Rage: Pentagon Grants SFSU Prof $1.9M to Analyze How Emotion Leads to Violence Among Ideologues

"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." In a move that required little reading between the lines, the Department of Defense yesterday announced a  $1.9 million Minerva Research Initiative Award for Professor David Matsumoto and his work on the role emotion plays in driving religious and ideologic ... More >>

Hidden in Plain Sight

"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." In a move that required little reading between the lines, the Department of Defense yesterday announced a  $1.9 million Minerva Research Initiative Award for Professor David Matsumoto and his work on the role emotion plays in driving religious and ideologic ... More >>

Oops: Pentagon Accidentally Sent Taiwan Nuclear Material. Again.

"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." In a move that required little reading between the lines, the Department of Defense yesterday announced a  $1.9 million Minerva Research Initiative Award for Professor David Matsumoto and his work on the role emotion plays in driving religious and ideologic ... More >>

Schwarzenegger Planning Hostile Takeover of Something

"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." In a move that required little reading between the lines, the Department of Defense yesterday announced a  $1.9 million Minerva Research Initiative Award for Professor David Matsumoto and his work on the role emotion plays in driving religious and ideologic ... More >>

An Army of Uno

Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

The Pentagon's 'Gay Bomb'

Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

Repertory Film Listings

Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

Apocalypse Now

A sharp, revelatory multimedia show casts a blinding light on the tragic events of today

BART’s Radar Dreams

A sharp, revelatory multimedia show casts a blinding light on the tragic events of today

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should

Blood Business

Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

Over a Barrel

The role of oil in U.S. policy: A new documentary goes behind the headlines

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

Chemical Welfare

The government accuses Bechtel of mismanagement as a smoke screen to avoid paying for alternative means of destroying deadly gases

Stop Making Sense

Donnie Darko's exquisite muddle

Sights, Seen

Obscure landmarks to love

Save Bitchen Science!

Forget about cures for HIV and leukemia. Give us robo-warriors and high-tech Jesus boots.

Keeping Occupied

Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

Switched On

Boats brighten the bay

Drawing a Crowd

One way into Mike Judge's shorts

Pinheads and Vidiots

Walking the floor with the arcade obsessed

Veronique of the Mounties

Our local source for protest theater offers a weird exercise in moral equivalence

The Poindexter Effect

Digging into the architect of Total Information Awareness unearths good news: Ordinary Americans value civil liberties

Karnak Sees a Black Turban ...

That'll be $20 million, please

Letters to the Editor for the week of 12-5-2001

We Never Got Around to Publishing: Get Me the Pentagon; They Don't Get Letters Like This at The New Yorker; Have a Problem No One Else Can Solve? Let SF Weekly Help.

Acid Reign

From the Bush administration's assault on the Constitution to San Francisco's election fiascoes, core American values are being corroded

Dog Bites

What Did You Sing in the War, Daddy?; Anthrax for Dummies

Too Close for Comfort

The weird coincidences between last week's terrorist attacks and David Hagberg's novels have been keeping the author up at night

Letters to the Editor

Letters from February 14, 2001

Asking, Telling

The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

Dog Bites

The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

Dog Bites

The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

Night+Day

The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

Hey, Sailor!

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

S.F.s 10 Tiniest Conspiracies

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri