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Yesterday, David Hazinski attempted to harness the awesome power of the world wide web with this colonel of wisdom about the currant state of journalism. In his op-ed peace for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he informs us that such journalistic mediums as CNN YouTube debates, political blogs, and cellphone videos are, in a word, crap. At least when it comes to giving and receiving accurate, Pulitzer-worthy information.

Continuing the tour of pain through the ex-members of the NFC West, this week the 49ers visit the the wreckage that once was the Atlanta Falcons.

It appears to be bomb day here at the ole 'Fist as we have yet another bomb story to relate to y'all. This one involves a die-hard (seriously die-hard) Giants fan who called in bomb threats at Turner Field in Atlanta.

There's a money room in the basement of 1 South Van Ness, where the Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is headquartered. Workers literally count by hand bags of cash and coins taken in as fares from passengers throughout the day. After we finished bashing our heads against the windows and swearing, we read on:

When Muni recently needed to pull some of those unionized bean counters away from the money room to staff kiosks around the city where transit passes are sold, its managers hoped to replace them with workers from a private contracting outfit.

God bless the Bay Area Reporter.

Hey, all you singles in San Francisco/Oakland, looks like you live in the right place. Our fair city was tops in Forbes 7th Annual Best Cities for Singles Report.

-- Tegan & Sara: identical twins cum awesome rock songstresses with questionable haircuts play tonight in the Mission. Show starts at 8 p.m., Brava Theater, 2789 24th St.; tickets are $25.

It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,measureables!

Here's today's wrap up of sports news

-And speaking of the Warriors, there's bad news and even worse news. The bad news is that they lost to the Nuggets 123-111. The worse news? Baron Davis is all set to have knee surgery. Is this the end of the season? Should the Warriors, then, throw in the towel and play for a lottery pick? And should fans root for them to loose-- you know, fantanking.

-The Warriors miserable road trip continues as they lose to the miserable Atlanta Hawks. Even worse, they have the dreaded back-to-back game as they take on 'Melo and AI tonight against the Nuggets. Golden State of Mind is depressed but Bruce Jenkins says buck up, the Warriors could still make the playoffs. Monte Poole disagrees.

If you were born after 1994 you have no idea what it's like. If you're a long-time fan, you might have a hazy, vague recollection of it. If you come from places like Los Angeles, Chicago, or Miami, you desperately miss it. We're talking a big game -- more specifically, a Warriors big game. An important game. A game that means something besides wrapping up a Lottery pick or nudging out Seattle or Memphis for the 11th overall spot in the Western Conference.

Tonight the Warriors play the Indiana Pacers in their biggest, most important game of this season or possibly the last 10 seasons. If the Dubs win, their slight hopes for the last playoff spot in the WC remain on life support; if they lose, consider the plug pulled on yet another failed season.

-The Warriors get blown out by the pathetic Atlanta Hawks. Hello lottery pick?

-Sharks score five unanswered goals to beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-1. It was their first victory in Edmonton since November 2003.

We don't know about you, but it's friggin cold out there. Well, not for some of you. It seems as though places that are supposed to be cold are warm and places that are supposed to be warm are cold. Or maybe that's just us. Either way, we're freezing.

Yet another PG&E manhole blew up this weekend -- this time, at 5:30 on Sunday at Market and Powell. PG&E blames a faulty cable and says it was no big deal. A witness at the time, however, said he saw flames shooting up out of the ground.

Barry Zito outpitched Curt Schilling this afternoon to lead the Athletics to a 7-2 beat down of the Dead Sox. That's what they in the business call a "sweep." The A's have won 15 of 19 games and were 21-6 in August and the Chron notes that the A's are an amazing 124-45 in August since 2001. Crikey.

Remember during that hot streak the Giants were on when their pitching was pretty much airtight? Remember how they didn't give up many runs and pitched until late in the game? Those were good times. And not these times as the Giants started off a nine game road trip to Atlanta getting shellacked 13-8. The pitcher getting the shellacking? Staff ace Jason Schmidt. Of note, however, is the Barry sticking it to Hammerin' Hank's Hometown fans and hitting two home runs and robbing Jeff Francouer of a three run home run. Barry is getting hot of late and a hot Barry means good things for the Giants and we're just going to stop right there before we hurt ourselves.

Bust out the Kangol Caps, drawstring pants, and Bell Biv Devoe concert tees Raiders fans as the Silver & Black continue with their love affair with Back in the Day as they signed the one and only Jeff George. Yep, that Jeff George. George, in a way, makes a perfect Raider-- he's old, he's got a rocket for an arm, and he's dumb as dirt. Which is why he's become a running joke over the years: the dude was majorly talented yet majorly douche-y.

Oh we've got some tough cookies this week, yes sir. Fresh from the macho shelves at Isotope and onto your manly plate come because that's the coolest. And hey, have you been listening to our comic booky podcast? It's SUPER.

Part three in our series detailing our conversation with Nathaniel P Ford, executive director of the MTA. See part one here, part two here.

We continue our conversation with Muni's executive director, Nathaniel P. Ford. When we last left Mr. Ford, he was addressing Muni's plans to improve the rider experience.

SFist Melissa went to today's immigrant rallies in Oakland, and was kind enough to pass along these awesome pictures of the event. Over 1000 people marched for 7 miles in Oakland, while several hundred marched in the Mission District, and over 4000 showed up in San Jose.

We continue with our raging discussion on this year's upcoming baseball season. The rest of the award-winning SFist sports desk will join in as soon as their stupid day jobs let them. Oh, how we long for the days when we were merely crack monkey's chained to computers in Jackson's basement dungeon. Anyways, part I can be seen here and Part 2 here. SFist Chris

The National League West?

The NCAA men's basketball tournament resumes tonight with third-round (also known as the Sweet 16) action in both the Atlanta and Oakland regionals. Action in the Washington D.C. and Minneapolis regionals continue tomorrow and Saturday.

So, Gavin's been pretty chatty about Muni lately, hasn't he?

Cole Stratton isn't just one of the founders of SF Sketchfest, which starts tomorrow. (Are you going? We are, and you should, too.)

The Examiner reports that new Muni transportation director Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr. (we love that name -- doesn't he sound like the guy who should be on the $7 bill or something?) wil become San Francisco's highest paid official when he takes over the position next year.

It's the better safe than sorry edition! So an SF mother frantically alerted the media that her daughter was missing after her finals in Atlanta, only to find out that her daughter had been arrested. The daughter had refused to give her name to the Atlanta police, so when the mother called to ask if her daughter was in jail, they didn't have her name in the database. Another woman alerted the SFPD that her elderly parents had been missing since Tuesday. Last she'd heard, they were going to the doctor's for a routine appointment, and when she managed to get into their house, they didn't have any of their medication with them. They turned up two days later, reporting that they'd gotten a little lost. Numerous people reported seeing their car in various places in Oakland and San Francisco. And finally, Wendy's reported that its second quarter earnings were down 4 percent, all because of finger-in-the-chili Anna Ayala. However, sales of chicken club sandwiches, iced cappuccinos, and yogurt are up, up, up!

We first heard of Tayari Jones when we read her novel , which details the coming-of-age experiences of three children under the shadow of the (recently reopened) Atlanta child murders.