Hey, stupid! Are you using incandescent light bulbs and doing your laundry at 4 in the afternoon? Christ, what an asshole. Barbara Boxer is going to box your ears. She's got a list of energy-saving tips for the summer, the same "diddle your thermostat, buy thicker windows" blah-blah-blah that you've been hearing since you were twelve. Go check out her advice and let us know if you learn anything new. Hey, here's a tip for......

So...ugh. Birds died, gastronomic seasons were delayed. What's more, it hasn't even been a week, and already some of your favorite local and national politicos are personalizing the spill, more than ready to point old, spotty white fingers elsewhere. (RIP, acts of God.) How very helpful. Except not really. Anyway, oil-spill points of interest that happened over the weekend: -- ^&*#%^&*#!: Crab season delayed. -- "Something went terribly wrong," obvious'd Senator Barbara Boxer (Can......

After poking some good-natured fun at State Senator Carole Migden for her driving mishaps last week, we now feel obliged to tell you guys that she's revealed that she was diagnosed with leukemia 10 years ago and thinks that her medication might have affected her driving that day. Migden says she was diagnosed in 1997, was unable to find a bone marrow match, but successfully fought off the disease nonetheless, saying she lost her hair......

Ah..it's President's Day. We don't know about you, but we love the annual President's Day parade down Market Street. Our favorites have always been the Taft Fat Mobile, the dance troop "the FDRettes," and the William Henry Harrison Tippecanoe Jazz Band. -Barack Obama Superstar to be in SF tonight for fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer. -People return home late one night, stumble around, find dead body in house. -NASA holds an Asteroid Preparation Summit......

-Arnie is now officially our Governor for the next four years. -Arnie also raised a whop-load of money....

...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still screwed up! They had the cable car bell-ringing contest today. The 4-time champ was unseated by another former champ. Jan Wahl won best celebrity ringer, and donated her $1000 to Pets Unlimited. Our only question -- who else competed? Please say......

From the best of the Bushisms to the best of Butoh, this week offers performance covering both ends of the spectrum....

One of the ways bloggers can leverage their collective influence is through a good, old-fashioned pile on. We don't have to necessarily break the story, but if a critical mass of bloggers start addressing it simultaneously, the s**tstorm will finally hit the mainstream. Just ask Dan Rather. The worldwide blogosphere was shocked -- shocked -- at the implications of a recent Chicago Sun-Times article. Turns out that armed with someone's phone number and a......

Whether or not you enjoy Barbara Boxer's senatorial antics, there's no denying she's a master of making grandiose gestures without actually committing to any specific action. Fer instance, she sent out some emails to constituents the other day about how she's eager to reduce our dependence on oil and improve mass transit and stuff. She offers a "summary of steps necessary," without actually explaining how she's going to make any of these things happen:......

Now that it's been revealed that the President was illegally eavesdropping on people and that his basic reaction was "suck on it," what was once the fevered acid flashback of a few hippies in Marin and Daily Kossacks is now suddenly going mainstream. The "I" word is out there and even if we're only talking about the equivalent of some unknown band suddenly generating a bit of a buzz and a faint whiff of interest from record execs, it's still generating some buzz. Maybe not the Strokes buzz, more Super Furry Animal Buzz, which is more buzz than it had before. Hopping on that buzz today is Barbara Boxer who sent a letter to four Presidential Scholars asking if they think what King George did rises to the merits of "impeachable offense."...

So the President gave his big "Wait! I got a Plan! I swear" speech today which went over as well, as, well, we don't know how well it went over, but we did notice while at the gym today that the news channels couldn't wait to switch over to live footage of some police chase in LA. One place the President's speech did cause a reaction was here in the Bay Area as this afternoon, Nancy Pelosi came out in support of John Murtha's proposed withdrawal plan. The one which got him called a "coward" by that scary congresswoman from Ohio....

With the inmates running the asylum known as the 109th Congress, it's always great to know that we here in California, the Blue-ish of the Blue states, have representatives to act as a bulwark against the insanity. Case in point, what some people call an "annual rite of spring"-- the proffering of a resolution making flag burning unconstitutional. Thankfully, our elected representatives are standing firm and fighting this nonsense, people like Sen. Barbara Boxer and......

We always thought there was something disingenuous about the conservative letters they published in the Chron! The Contra Costa Times discovered that an enterprising Republican named Kyle Vallone had written at least 200 fake letters to various Northern California newspapers, and gotten at least 20 or so published. Vallone would use fake names, various phone numbers, and free email accounts to write the pieces and then when the fact-checkers came, disguise his voice on the phone. "I'm very good at accents," he said, and noted he was particularly proud of the identity "Batswala Dala." Vallone specialized in conservative letters, noting that he'd gotten seven letters against Barbara Boxer published, but had also written on a range of topics, like recalling Gray Davis and boosting missile defense. Interestingly, Vallone had also been busted (under his own name) for plagiarizing a letter he'd gotten published from the WSJ. Read the article, it's pretty entertaining! This reminds us of that smart kid summer camp class that got 20-some letters published in the New York Times (only without the smart kids). And who can forget the Bay Area's original fake letter-writing crank, Lazlo Toth? (a.k.a. Don Novello/Father Guido Sarducci). And Wonkette on Vallone. ...

We asked some of our representatives last week about their feelings about the Terri Schiavo issue and the bill passed by Congress to allow her parents to sue. Guess what? No one got back to us, not even our favorite rep, Barbara Lee. Shame on you, unresponsive representatives....

It may seem like we just had a Governor's race, and then the Recall race, but it's still not too early to start thinking about the next Governor's race. Yay! We still are about twenty months away from the actual election, but today, two Democrats threw themselves into the race to try and unseat the Governator- one officially, the other not yet officially. We start off with State Treasurer Phil Angelides. Angelides today officially announced that he was going to run in 2006 in speeches given at public schools in both San Francisco and Sacramento. Angelides has made a name for himself during the Arnie years by being one of the Governor's biggest critics. Since Arnie took over the Governor's office, Angelides has pretty much opposed everything Arnie has tried to get done. Why, we even hear he refused to smoke a stogie with him! In his speeches today, Angelides criticized the Governator for cutting assistance to the not-so-well-off to help the well off. In his press release to announce his running, Angelides includes a note of support from Sen. Barbara Boxer. He also claims to carry the support of Nancy Pelosi....

Is Barbara Boxer getting ready to run for president in 2008? It kind of looks like it......

Nothing like senate confirmation hearings to get the partisan juices flowing. Kos reports that Senator Barbara Boxer would speak her mind [link via 1115] as part of Dr. Condoleeza Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State. Dr. Rice, former Provost at Stanford, and Boxer, the only Senator to request an investigation into voter disenfranchisement in Ohio, are two of Washington's most powerful women. While SFist would rather have seen this settled in a steel-cage match, the......

We may have been a bit dubious about all of this, but it appears as though those rallies and e-mails to Sen. Barbara Boxer worked. Today, during a joint session of congress to certify the electoral vote count, Boxer, along with several other Democratic members of Congress, forced a debate on the results of the Ohio election. Each electoral vote was certified as per usual up until the Ohio votes were read and then Boxer......

While most of us have gotten over the previous election, even moving past both the four stages of mourning and the drunken depressed stupor stage, there are some people out there still fighting. Yesterday a rally was held in front of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s San Francisco office urging her to stand up and challenge the election results because of all the charges of fraud and disenfranchisement in Ohio. Tomorrow, members of congress will join together......

Barbara Boxer has gotten the Senate -- unanimously, no less -- to pass the California Missions Preservation Act, which will create a new nonprofit agency charged with upkeep for the 21 missions in the state and dedicate $10 million to the agency over a five-year period. This of course includes San Francisco's own pride and joy, the Mission Dolores. ...

Crankreport's Marnie Webb....