We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said a number of bad, bad things about the area. Among other things, he's said this about the Bay Area: "It's the dumping ground of people who can't afford to live in L.A." And this: "You know, we should take the show on the road. For the next game, we should go to hell - I mean, go to Golden State." And then there's this: "I would rather stay on Alcatraz than San Francisco or Oakland.'' He also talked trash about Sausalito . Sausalito! ...

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-Barry B arrives in camp and does his annual State of The Barry speech, always an entertaining occasion. This time, however, he didn't drag his son into it or spend the entire time attacking the press, but instead, dared everyone to investigate him. Ray Ratto yawns. ...

We have got to program our TiVo DVR to get a season pass for CHRIS DALY -- we missed our favorite moonbat left wing District 6 Supervisor yakking it up about impeachment with "you're hurting America"'s own Tucker Carlson last night! Check out that picture of Tucker eating a ceremonial shoe when he was wrong about Hillary Clinton! Always makes us laugh. (but not as much as when Charles Barkley kissed a donkey ass after losing that bet about Yao Ming.) Good thing about the show: Daly did not say America could be defended by the Coast Guard. Bad thing about the show. Chris was rocking some sort of mountain-man unshaven look. Chris readily admitted that SF has no impact on whether Bush gets impeached, "absolutely not." But -- and you know we're always happy to mock Daly -- we have to say, he did a pretty good job defending his resolution. He noted that it cost no money to pass the resolution, that the tax revenues from San Francisco that went to the Iraq war total $800 million, and that San Francisco is right to be outraged about the way the presidency's been going.

CARLSON: There are Republican fundraisers sitting at home right now, taking notes on you, ready to raise more dough in direct mail pitches. DALY: That's beautiful. CARLSON: Congratulations. DALY: I'll take on their direct mail and square off on them and I'll beat them. And San Francisco will lead the country. And George Bush will go down as the worst president in American history.

If you long for boundary-crossing or brio or fun in country-western music, git along to San Francisco State University the next three Tuesdays (March first, eighth and fifteenth) to celebrate Bob Wills at 100. The inventor of “Western Swing,” Bob Wills combined country music with Nawlins jazz, blues, ragtime and traditional Mexican music....