Ann Coulter, who, of course, should be dragged out onto Market and 16th streets and throttled within an inch of her life for her conflicting political views, will be coming to San Francisco in August for a fundraiser for a Young Republicans group. Fun! The Chronicle's Joe Garofoli has the details: "The connection is that Coulter is old pals with new SF GOP chair Harmeet Dhillon. They met when Dhillon was in law school at the University of Virgina at a Federalist Society meeting at Harvard University 20 or so years ago. 'I think there were 250 men there and three women' Dhillon tells us, including Coulter." more ›

-- 19-year-old lad from Felton -- a fascinating, frightening place -- calls cops after his weed gets pinched. Which he was trying to sell in downtown Santa Cruz. And doesn't get arrested. [Chron] more ›

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. More letters about Cody's? Okay, ew: there's cockroaches on AC Transits, and they had a lice infestation on BART. We are totally standing up on BART for the indefinite future. Also -- Ann Coulter is accused of plagiarizing from Jane Ganahl. Is Ann Coulter also feeling bad about being single? Spider bites. A new group encouraging more people to refuse to testify before grand juries. Will SFist Jackson throw them all a benefit party? Cover article: the expensive skew of wine journalism (we like the title "Wineau."). New website to use statistics to evaluate assage on the Oakland A's, called Moneybutt. Ha! The first Wineau column, for cheap wine. Shouldn't this column have been placed closer to the cover article? And Bay Area tribute bands. more ›

We haven't done one of these in awhile! more ›

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. more ›

Smoking to be banned pretty much everywhere in California. more ›