At least he is in this elaborate, spooktacular, very San Francisco Halloween display, found outside a Glen Park home. Curious, yes? But we think they should have added pantyhose to Palin's legs -- you know, to go with the strappy, open-toed shoes. Because you know she would wear them together. But still: interesting display, Glen Parkers. (Thanks, tingley, for the images.)......

If this is any indication of things to come, tomorrow's Palin-Biden debate could prove the single most entertaining trainwreck in television history. And we want you to share this moment with other inebriated strangers. So, readers, would you let us know of any Bay Area bars, all of them, hosting a viewing party for the big showdown? Thanks. Oh, and you can let us know of said venues in the comments or email them......

Hey, the debate is back on tonight! John McCain dried his tears and will head over to the University of Mississippi to get reamed by Barack Obama. Exciting stuff, folks! Tonight's topic: foreign policy. Zzzzz, right? But at one of these venues, you'll have have plenty of comfort juice by your side to keep things interesting. 2 LIPS Bar & Lounge (1414 Market (at 10th Street): three flat screens, $2 beers, loads of wonksInner......

Reader Chris writes SFist to ask the following: Do you guys know if any bars/lounges plan on broadcasting the presidential debate on Friday? Hmm. Well, we know about this one happening at the Roxie. But that has those-who-laugh-self-consciously-loud-at-Shakespearian-comedies-in-the-Embarcadero-Cinemas attendees written all over it. Does anybody (or any bar managers/employees) have word on whether or not their favorite watering hole will show Friday's Presidential debate? Let us know in the comment. Please. Then, on Friday......

Remember when we told you Vice Presidential candidate/major fail Sarah Palin was coming to Woodside to show off her pretty legs, or whatever? Gave you the location, date, time, and everything? Well, the luncheon has, sadly, been canceled. Our pals over at Daily Kos sent us word this afternoon. The McCain camp blames a scheduling conflict, but, really, this just goes to show you how little GOP cares about the Golden State. What else is......

LiveJournal user Jameth is asking readers to send him to Sarah Palin's Woodside Luncheon, happening on Thursday, Sept. 25th, in Woodside (SFist's official off-site headquarters. What?) at Tom Siebel's pad. And he needs your money, folks. What will your hard-earned money get him, you ask? Well, $1,000 will get him a moose burger and a glass of Tang, and for an extra $1,500 he'll get a McCain-Palin pin. So, if you feel like sending him......

Look what little SFist found waiting patiently in the inbox. Sadly, we cannot afford a seat, but, oh my God, won't someone please take us with them as their date? Behold: We are thrilled to have our superlative Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the Bay Area two weeks from today, Thursday, Sept. 25th for Lunch in Woodside. This will be the perfect and probably only opportunity to meet and visit with her before......

OK, not really. But while VP candidate Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, the area (specifically the Matanuska-Susitna area) won the title of Meth Capital of Alaska. (An aside: check out the SLOG today to see Palin get ripped to shreds, you know, if that's your thing.) We recommend you read this article out about the tweakiest city in Alaska during '02-'03, which features kids going hungry, the authorities doing very......

Sarah Palin -- who, let's face it, governs some useless mass of land in Canada -- thinks she's more qualified than God to help run the US. According to Ralph Nader, she's isn't, and even his running mate, Matt Gonzalez, has more skills than Palin. He says: [VP candidate] Matt Gonzalez has more experience than Sarah Palin ...San Francisco is a lot bigger than Wasilla. Nice one, Ralph. That said, and we hate to......

Sarah Palin, according to yesterday's New York Times, tried to get some morally bankrupt books removed from library shelves when she took office in Alaska as the mayor of Wasilla. Palin, it seems, went so far as to try firing Mary Ellen Emmons, a librarian in Wasilla who dared to resist Palin's vile censoring efforts. The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to "resist all efforts at censorship,"... Ms. Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after......

While working at Fifth and Market streets, an unidentified 35-year-old man was verbally accosted and then attacked by a passerby. According to the Gate: [T]he unidentified suspect approached and began to shout slurs and insults at the campaigner, who listened, thanked the man for his views and asked him to leave ... The angry man complied, but quickly returned and pulled out a knife and slashed the victim in the face The attacker was......

44-year-old former beauty queen and current Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wins the honor of being Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate. (It will not be, as was guessed yesterday, Tim Pawlenty.) A bit of background: Palin is the youngest and first female governor of Alaska -- a state that has a rape rate that is double the national average. Palin is also under investigation for allegedly firing Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner because he refused......

Looking to steal Obama's thunder, old man McCain, who is adorably running for Prez under the Republican ticket, has picked a VP running mate. One top guess, according to the Gate, is Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who "abruptly canceled numerous public appearances" today. We shall see. And in related news, McCain allegedly claims says that his S&M buddies back in Nam were homosexuals. Huh.......

Dear those of you who write addendums on posters, signs, and sticker: We love you. signed, the People's Republic of Earth PS, this was snapped up by crow soup (Flickr), who writes "I was a life-long member of the Green Party...was. I re-registered as independent recently. I met Matt Gonzalez in passing one day in Hayes valley. He was a smug prick. That is all." Hmmm. True or false, people of Earth? Is the......

Wayne Pickering (AKA, Brian McConnell), head of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco formed to honor George W. Bush -- which, at the risk of boasting, SFist was the first to tell you about back in March -- just contacted SFist to let us know that commission's ordinance initiative to changing the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the "George W Bush Sewage Plant" will, in fact, be on the November......

Photo by Brittney Gilbert Found on Battery Street yesterday afternoon. Charming. God, we're going to have to deal with this Naderian shit until November, aren't we? (Hint: yes.)......

Prop 98? Defeated. The eminent domain reform proposition, which would have seen rent control eliminated in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, failed to win last night. It seems that about 61 percent of voters rejected Prop. 98. Prop 99, Prop 98's counterattack? It passed. Also, redevelopment is facing a serious hangover this morning after it celebrated a victory last night. Proposition G, which will see the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point undergo some......

While we were out perusing second home possibilities in Rincon Hill all weekend long (exhausting!), a smattering of predominately white liberal arts majors had a kick-ass party on Valencia Street this past weekend. Fun! Check it: There was ice cream, jump roping, rave couture, masks, finger paints, the destruction of a perfectly good couch, exoticizing of the Spanish language, blocking traffic, and something or other to do with Proposition 98. You know, the one about......

Before entering a voguing competition (we can only assume) to the sounds of Seal at Saturday night's Black & White Ball, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced her endorsement for Assemblyman Mark Leno. Much to no one's surprise. Poor incumbent Migden. Won't someone please show her some love?! Anyway, it looks like Leno, for better or for worse, might be voted "most popular" after tomorrow's votes are finally counted. If you recall, this......

Mark Leno and Carole Migden, please step forward....

Before you get plastered tonight, saunter over to Cafe Flore beforehand to help the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco collect signatures. In order to get the ordinance initiative on the November ballot--you remember, the initiative to have the local sewage treatment facility's name changed to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant?--the good folks at the helm of this project need a certain amount of signatures. Help them, won't you? The details are as......

SF city supervisor Chris Daly penned an open letter to the folks over at SFBG today, asking them to endorse la Migden for reelection. ...

Unless you're a major wonk, there's no need to watch the above footage in its entirety. (It's Obama prattling on endlessly about losing to Clinton in Pennsylvania, how he'll win, how some of his best friends are white trash, "yes we can," health care, change, lobbyists, unicorns, apple pony princesses, etc.) Just check out the three pieces of tail standing in the background. They're all sporting noticeable Abercrombie & Fitch designs. Barf. But as......

The backlash has started. A few are livid over Barack Obama's surreptitious statements about the poor, armed, and God-fearing that he made over at the Getty manse; others are going into hysterics over ABC's treatment of Barack Obama during the this week's debate. (Actually, some of it was inanely amusing, which, most important of all, made for fantastic television. Check out Ms. Nash McCabe of Pennsylvania [at 1:46] asking Obama if he "believes in......

During this week's Tibet rally and Olympic flame frustration, the possible future leader of the free world, Barack Obama, sneaked into San Francisco on Sunday, hitting Billionaires Row for a pricey, Getty-hosted fundraiser. Neither you nor we were invited. Alas. According to Leah Garchik: In the Haight, stencils of Barack Obama's smiling face are decorating the sidewalk. But in real life, he is turning up in more lucrative venues: The candidate will be around here......

Ever since SFist first reported on the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco's plan to re-name the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility in honor of our current POTUS, George W. Bush, it has spread--in the words of T. Wayne Pickering, chairman of the unofficial "Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco--like an "intestinal bug on a Carnival cruise ship." ...

SFist's dear neighbor's, Wired, came across this racially explosive internet meme on the Daily Kos, which is set to have Democrats duking it out online. According to the Daily Kos, someone in the Clinton campaign took Obama's image from this video and darkened (a la OJ Simpson gracing the covers of Time and Newsweek) for this commercial. According to the Kos: In case you needed yet another reason to despise Hillary Clinton and her......

Ralph Nader announced yesterday that he will take yet another tireless stab at the Oval Office, this time running as an Independent in the 2008 presidential election. Oh joy. Prattling on endlessly about how the Democratic and Republican candidates aren't addressing the issues, and blah blah, who cares, this will be his fifth attempt at snatching the title President of the United States of American. What with a black man, Barack Obama, in the......