Though he hails from a God forsaken area in the Midwest—presumably from some unsettling oddity like Kentucky, Michigan, or Orinda—49ers coach Jim Harbaugh had some radical words for Californians' sensitive feelings. After Chronicle staff writer Eric Branch asked Haubaugh what he did after this team's overtime loss to the Giants on Sunday, he responded thusly: more ›

Tis the season for muggers to return crucial pieces of identification to their victims. Take, for example, a Telegraph Hill mugging victim who has his wallet returned to him after sobbing during a mugging. SF Examiner reports, "The 29-year-old victim was robbed around 10:30 p.m. [Thursday night] as he was walking upstairs in his apartment building on Grant Avenue in Telegraph Hill. The crook, who had snuck inside, crept up behind him and demanded his stuff." more ›

Today in The Gate, we happened upon Peter Hartlaub's article on "Breakup Songs to Die For." Reminiscent of Nick Hornby's classic, High Fidelity, Hartlaub puts together his list of great breakup songs and the criteria for what makes these songs so great. more ›

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos threw down some serious shade today. "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," he cried, shaming two senior Yahoo officials. Why? Because the Sunnyvale company named names, handing over private information about Chinese journalist Shi Tao's online pro-democracy action to country officials. (Or, as the New York Times so eloquently put it, their "complicity with an oppressive communist regime." Oh snap.) This landed... more ›