We can’t figure why this story hasn’t been all over local media,  but here it Is:
A Republican State Senator from Bakersfield was busted on a DUI after-bar hours closing Tuesday, the facts of the DUI, not so unusual, were reported on the news wires. The back story came up in the gay press – the [...]

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By John Calder,
The street  in front of the Ferry Building is named after Herb Caen to honor The beloved San Francisco columnist who died on February 1, 1997. Our proposal is this: to add a neon three dots to the PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO neon  sign on the Ferry Building tower.
Native San Franciscan will get [...]

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By John Calder
The builder of Fermilab, R.R. Wilson, perhaps explained best why studying fundamental physics is so important in his testimony before the Congress of the United States in 1969. Congress was looking for some sort of justification in spending $200 million.
What follows is an excerpt from Wilson’s testimony before the [...]

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At Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, screening is done in 30 minutes. The key? Look passengers in the eye.
From Our Transportation Correspondent, Peter Buxton:
By Cathal Kelly, Toronto Star
While North America’s airports groan under the weight of another sea-change in security protocols, one word keeps popping out of the mouths of experts: Israelification. That is, [...]

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By John Holland

In 1910, voters in San Francisco approved a $45 million bond issue for the construction of a water system on the Tuolumne River.

In 2010, city residents could vote on a proposal to tear out a key part of the system – Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.

Restore Hetch [...]

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November 3, 2009 San Francisco Municipal Election
City Attorney

Re-Elect Dennis Herrera
Treasurer
Jose Cisneros
Proposition A
Budgeting Process Revisions
NO
This is yet another City Hall barn-door sham that does nothing to rein the horse of galloping civic budget deficits. There is also the usual screwing around with the small print – the Firefighters and the craft unions will never forgive Supervisor [...]

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By John Shanley
Editors Note – John Shanley is a native San Franciscan.  He is a former spokesperson for District Attorney Terence Hallinan and recently served as a deputy city attorney assigned to the San Francisco Police Department.

My phone started ringing on Friday afternoon as word began to spread that newly appointed San Francisco Police [...]

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HOUSTON  A missile may have just barely miss hitting a Continental Airlines flight on Friday.

Liberty County sheriff deputies are meeting with the FBI and FAA to discuss this incident.Sheriff deputies say on Friday a missile may have been launched near Interstate 10 and mount Belview. A continental flight which had just taken off from Bush [...]

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I watched the other games from the stands so this was the first one I saw on TV, and as a committed secularist I noticed to my horror that Mike Singletary was wearing a cross draped on his muscular bosom.  As much as God made little daisy petals, that goddamn cross hexed the 49ers.
Isn’t [...]

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(The Eastern Establishment editorial comment on President’s Obama’s surprise Nobel was unsurprising. The Wall Street Journal cattily noted that the wily Norwegians had really praised the end to “American exceptionalism” that they incorrectly pretend Obama represents and correctly believe Europe wishes. The New York Times was dutifully little engine that could liberal check-listing a lotta [...]

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