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November 21, 2008
We received an angry letter from an even angrier Prince fan today. (Yes, they still exist.) He or she says to SFist, "I think you're a real creep to print something like that. How would you like it if someone did that to you?" (To answer that question: we probably have it coming.) So,we went back and looked over our "Price Hates Gays" post, and now feel compelled to tell your the truthiness. Prince,...
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add to del.icio.usLooking fresh-faced wrapped in a classic Burberry scarf, former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave an interview yesterday that can only be described as a pitiful attempt to get back on the Daily Show. In a 2008 news story on KTUU channel 2 in Anchorage, Palin is interviewed at a turkey farm while a man drains the blood from dead turkeys in the background. Do not watch the above clip if you plan on...
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After colliding with an elusive 16-X Muni bus on Upper Great Highway, a cyclist is in critical condition this morning. The crash happened at around 6:30 a.m. According to reports, the bicyclist was allegedly not wearing a helmet, heading "eastbound on Noriega Street from Upper Great Highway to Lower Great Highway" when the bike clipped the bus traveling in the same direction. The unidentified victim is at the hospital being treated for life-threatening injuries....
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Were you at the San Leandro BART station this morning and did you notice a commotion? A BART spokesman says a baby was born there this morning. Spokesman Linton Johnson says the mother was at the top of the escalator with a 2-year-old child when she went into labor. A station agent and cop helped her before the paramedics arrived to deliver the baby girl. Johnson said the family was in good health at a...
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In some more grim news, California's unemployment rate skyrocketed from 7.7 percent in September to 8.2 percent in October. The numbers go like this: the state of California's unemployment numbers are up by 95,000 over the last month (and up by 487,000 compared with October of 2008.) While this is affecting mainly construction and finance jobs, all sectors and any type of employee is taking a hit. A man in line at the Employment...
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November 21, 2008
This year's Mavericks surf competition will get a tad bit easier for its competitors. Mavericks, the (in)famous surfing location just north of Half Moon Bay, will now allow the use of tow-ins. That is to say, it's now legal in the competition for surfers to get comfortably towed into waves by jet skis, Waverunners, and other personal watercraft. The Monterey Bay sanctuary forbade the use of watercrafts in 1992 since it disturbed sea otters,...
Continue Reading ""Extreme" Surfers Get Green Light For Tow-Ins at Mavericks"While most of us who could afford an electric car are being handed pink slips, San Francisco and other Bay Area cities announced plans yesterday to make the Bay Ara the electric car capital of the world! In partnership with a Palo Alto start-up called Better Place, whose plans is to coat the entire Bay Area with electric-vehicle charging stations by 2012, the idea is to make using and refueling electric vehicles as practical as...
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It was announced today that Washington Mutual , which was shoved under the thumb of federal regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase in September, will close its Pleasanton campus and eliminate hundreds of San Francisco positions. In total, the former banking giant will eliminate 1,600 Bay Area jobs. The company plans to "cut 400 employees at its operations center at 201 Mission St. in San Francisco early next year," which would leave a paltry...
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Former SFist Editor Eve Batey bids The Chronicle adieu. (Be sure to stay tuned for her new project, The San Francisco Appeal.) [@eveb]Ted Turner is a crazy old loon. Who sings. [SFGate]Behold the Ritz-Carlton residences. Swoon. Gasp. Sigh. [Curbed]Plump, hairy gays begin boycott of Cinemark. [BAR]Taggers of UCB, get your Sharpies ready. [Daily Clog]Indian man dies in pie-eating contest. Because pie is gross, trashy. [Valleywag]...
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As we all know, Gus Van Sant's film about Harvey Milk, Milk, will open next week. In 1977, Milk became the first openly gay man to be elected to a major public office in the United States, only to be assassinated within his first year of serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At turns tragic and exhilarating, the film chronicles the last eight years of Milk’s life (played by Sean Penn), when...
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The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting says it destroyed almost 3 million marijuana plants this growing season. According to the NY Times, a "record number of marijuana plants were uprooted and burned in California this year," with the most marijuana farms found in the Central Valley and Northern California. Additionally, the estimated street value of the plants is $11.6 billion. Of course, these were outdoor farms--who knows how many are hidden, indoor operations--the Marijuana Policy Project,...
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Visiting the Bay Area to attend the Standford-USC football game, Kellen Spani, a senior majoring in business administration and Pi Kappa Alpha brethren, was stabbed outside PlumpJack Balboa Bar in the Marina early Saturday morning. Spani, it seems, was coming to the aid of a friend when he took a blade to the gut. He is expected to live and be back at school after Thanksgiving. The two suspects involved in the stabbing, however,...
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Awful news, everyone! Most Bay Area executives believe that the economy will get worse through 2009. But wait, it gets worse! The Bay Area Council surveyed 509 executives, and the results show that "four out of ten companies plan to cut jobs within six months." What's more, 41 percent of the fat cats also suspect that "the economy will get worse for the next 18 months to three years," predicting economic misfortune going well...
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Not content with the amount hate spewed forth in the name of God, prop. 8 supporters are now looking to untie the knots of more than 18,000 couples who were married before the ban went intro effect. While the California Supreme Court decided whether or not to allow discrimination to stand in the state's constitution, same-sex marriages are still recognized as valid until the final decision comes down in March of 2009. (KCBS)...
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After years of being blissfully ignorant of the homosexual lifestyle, eHarmony, the online dating site that uses highly intricate and futuristic technologies to find you that perfect match, will now be required to set up a special rainbow-flavored section for gays and lesbians looking for lifetime partners. This comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by Eric McKinley, a New Jersey bear looking for a cub, accusing the online love portal of discrimination....
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November 19, 2008
How did you celebrate World Toilet Day? [wateraid]Harvey Milk to Bruce Brugmann: "I want to be your Deep Throat at City Hall." [SFBG]Spare the air, please; no sparking up fireplaces, pellet stoves, wood stoves and outdoor fire pits during winter dirty-air days. [Marin Independent Journal]"I gave you a hand job on CalTrain - w4m - 58" [Craigslist, via annagaz]The difference between the Bart extension could come down to less than a dozen votes. [LA...
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Speaking about today's California Supreme Court agreeing to hear case on same-sex marriage, City Attorney Dennis Herrera had this to say: No matter what your view of same-sex marriage, it is important to understand that the passage of Prop 8 has pushed California to the brink of a constitutional crisis. And how....
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who represents the 9th Congressional District, was announced as the next chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. She replaces outgoing chair Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick and said, "The 111th Congress will not only present unique and difficult challenges, but also historic opportunities for our caucus... I plan to build upon the great leadership of our former chairs and to meet our caucus challenge of ‘Changing Course, Confronting Crises, and Continuing the Legacy’ of...
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A decision has been made. The California Supreme Court has decided to hear the legal issues over Prop. 8, the same-sex marriage ban which passed by razor-thin 52% of the vote, but said it won't issue a stay against the voter-approved same-sex marriage ban. Which is to say, county clerks will not be allowed to resume issuing licenses to queer couples until the case is decided. Prop. 8 is still in effect. Court spokeswoman...
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With six separate lawsuits filed to ask the state Supreme Court to overturn Prop. 8, we could find out as soon as, well, any second now if the state's highest court will review the constitutionality of a proposition that bans same-sex couples from getting married. Both sides of Prop 8, in fact, are eager to to get some sort of final word on this controversial civil-rights issue that's made worldwide headline since elections day....
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While a British newspaper may have jumped the gun in reporting that Hillary Clinton would be President-elect Obama's Secretary of State, it certainly seems like it'll happen at some point. Politico reports that "Negotiations between the Clintons and President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team are rapidly moving toward a formal offer of secretary of state" by next week. More intriguingly, former President Bill Clinton has entered the talks: According to a "close friend," apparently Bubba "is...
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Taking a page from Karen Walker's handbook, Bay Area real-estate agent Mabelle de la Rosa Dann (AKA Mabelle Crabbe) is in federal court today on charges of coaxing a Peruvian nanny to her Walnut Creek home for a better life, but instead kept her as an "indentured servant for nearly two years." Sheesh. Some of the charges railed against Dann are: failing to pay her for her work, charging her around $15,000 for Dann's...
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