When the Chron bites, it bites down hard -- check out today's editorial about Gavin Newsom whining about his love life.

Funny, he didn't seem to mind the publicity when he was posing on the carpet. Since news hit that Mayor Gavin Newsom was seen kissing "CSI:Miami" star/scientologist Sofia Milos at a North Beach cafe, he has been a bit on the defensive side -- complaining about all the media attention and the hardships of maintaining a private life. Maybe we would feel a little more sympathy for him if it weren't for those haunting images of the mayor and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle all snug as two bugs on a billionaire's rug for a Harper's Bazaar spread. . . . . You can't call the media on the carpet when you willingly lie down and pose on it for them.

Good an excuse as any for us to haul back out the retired so-best carpet picture itself!