18 posts tagged “politics”

If you're looking for some spiritual guidance, I suggest the two creations Sean Timberlake posted at Hedonia, both made with Hangar One's amazing Chipotle Vodka.

Dateline Los Gatos: Bitter cheating ex-wife bitches to "Doctor Phil" about her ex-husband's post-divorce success, gets like totally pwned on the show, blames it on taking drugs and bad editing. Bonus: The comments on the story.

SFist continues the Google Maps quirk log with a look at what appears to be a N Judah the size of a BART consist.

Unprepared: People trying to get a passport not happy about having to wait twelve-plus weeks for one. I have moderate amounts of pity, but honestly, kids, the logjam-generating passport requirements for travel to Mexico and Canada weren't exactly state secrets.

Today's selections from SFGate:

eHarmony gets matched with a lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against gays and lesbians. The suit was filed in California, where such discrimination is illegal. Lawyers for the Christian-themed dating service equated it to suing a sushi bar for not serving Blanquette de veau.

 "You dare to rape people's will, betray us, and threaten the community," said the newspaper ad directed at two legislators opposing a Chinatown expansion of City College.

They failed at math, bought homes they couldn't afford and at least one California legislator wanted to save them from foreclosure. Alas, the bill to save idiots who attempted to live beyond their means dies a quick death in committee.

To be fair, Tony Hall does have some government experience, having represented District 7 for four years, give or take a few months. The Chron says he's not doing this as a grudge match, honest. Wha? Oh, seems there's some bad blood between Hall and Mayor Hairball; SFist does a good summary:

Tony Hall's been famously irritated with Gavin Newsom ever since Newsom dumped him off at the Treasure Island Development Association to give his Supervisor's seat away to Sean Elsbernd and the Office of Emergency Services office to Annemarie Conroy, and then had him fired after the two of them got in a fight over Newsom's lack of commitment to the island and Newsom's accusations of Hall's financial improprieties.

Oh, and he's also a staunch conservative. Not that theres anything wrong with that (electable SF conservatives are typically moderate and non-wingnutty), but it's the sort of quality that works better representing a district than trying to get a citywide majority. Whoever wins, I'm certain we'll get the government we deserve.

MUNI means business: Nat Ford sent out a diplomatic (and leaked) memo to his management team requesting "that everyone participate in representing the best interests of our organization, the City, and our patrons by following SFMTA's standards for performance." In the business world, this are usually the type of memo that arrives a few months before mass firings begin (at which point everyone realizes "oh shit, management means business" and real change occurs).

Bay Area foodies are kinda-sorta-yes-really pissed off at Slow Food maven Carlo Petrini for slamming the organic wares of the Ferry Building's farmers market as being tailored for "a clientele whose social status was pretty clear: either wealthy or very wealthy".

In the why-bother department, a major hotel chain approached Rosas Farms about using their organic and grass-fed beef in that chain's restaurants. All went well until they demanded all incoming meat be irradiated as part of "a risk management thing." The Rosas showed the hotel executives the door and Erin Rosa wrote some informative words about irradiation.

Democrats may be the Congressional majority (by a slim margin), which at least allows us some point-and-laugh room

when the more shrill of the wingnuts start ranting. This time, Sadly, No! mocks the latest utterances of Debbie Schlussel -- she's some sort of columnist, I guess -- who has decided that Muslim doctor = medical terrorist. Stay classy, Debbie.

And speaking of things that make wingnut conservatives scream, read an excerpt from Al Gore's upcoming book The Assault On Reason.

In the latest chapter of the ongoing serial known as Oh My God Best Buy Sucks, the kids over at Consumerist feature a letter from the latest happy customer victim of the Big Blue Box. It's titled Best Buy Stole My Computer and I think you can figure out the contents on your own.

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"The best thing anyone can say about Gonzales' testimony is he didn't use the word 'nappy' and he remembered to wear pants."

The one property that defines all Conservatives is a deeply held belief that there is some discreet point in the past When It All Went Wrong. The present (never mind the future) zooms right past them as they blow all their energy trying to hit history’s non-existent ‘Undo’ button to get back to the glorious moment before It All Went Wrong. For some, its the civil rights era, for others its the New Deal, still others pine for the Gilded Age. Hell, for the wingiest Wingnuts, Where It All Went Wrong seems to be the fucking English Civil War.

From this comment by kingubu at Sadly, No! The post itself is an interesting read, mostly jabbing the latest Big C freakout over a revival of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Find out the same way InfoWorld staffers found out their publisher planned to ditch their print vision. Surprise!

Did a totally hot guy knock on your door the other day with a tale of raising money to take a trip with his university rugby team? You've been scammed.

CA Dems would like Jerry Brown to be the next governor of California, again. What in reincarnation is going on here?

Why don't you appreciate the Bay Bridge more? You should, you know. Personally, I appreciate it more by night when it's in lights.

MUNI is officially retiring the 15 line, because the Third Street light rail project is

about to start operating daily. The 15 started in 1940, when it replaced a streetcar line.

Quote Of The Day: Remarking on an Metblogs SF entry about having one's laundry boosted from communal washing space, Jason commiserated with his own experiences, ending with: The next day I got to call into work and say, "I may not be coming in today. I no longer own any pants."

Sure, I'll support that, right along with the posters at SF Junto. His family is old San Francisco local with strong ties in the community. There's a  history of service and integrity with Glover and the rest of his family. And yes, just a little bit of star power, too.

RPMmini breaks it down, district by district, concluding with:

And don't think that Danny Glover wouldn't love to be Mayor of San Francisco. And Gavin doesn't hold the star status to keep him from running, the respect isn't there. In the end Glover could beat Gavin. If you thought Arnie wouldn't be Governor, think Danny Boy could be mayor in a heart beat. With ease, if done correctly.

No, I wouldn't mind that at all.

Via

First, it was spokesman Peter Ragone outed for astroturfing a popular local blog. Next, it was Ruby Rippey-Tourk broadcasting an affair with her boss (who also happened to be her husband's boss). And now there's Jennifer Siebel running her mouth in Sunday's Chron and following up with comments on the same blog that outed Ragone's multiple identities.

I think it's time to ask a very important question: Does San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom have an idiot fetish?