We always hate it when we see a new Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker, because we know it's going to be something really upsetting that the Bush Administration's done. Last week's article detailed just how badly Donald Rumsfeld treated Gen. Antonio Taguba, who did the investigation on the abuses and torture at Abu Ghraib. Give Gen. Taguba a hero's welcome and hear his story in person at the Commonwealth Club tonight at 6......

With the death of Gerald Ford has come renewed interest in the various events in his life, including (for SFist's purposes, anyways) Sara Jane Moore's attempt to assassinate him in San Francisco on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel. It was 17 days after Squeaky Fromme the Manson follower had tried and failed to kill Ford in Sacramento, and Moore was a mentally unstable leftist active with the Symbionese Liberation Army (the ones......

Out of the wreckage of last wnkd's wacktacular loss to the San Diego SuperChargers comes the Raiders' decision to demote offensive coordinator Tom Walsh in favor of tight end coach John Shoop....

Quick, name the poet who wrote these verses? "As we know/There are known knowns/There are things we know we know." Or these: "Things will not be necessarily continuous/The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous\ Ought not to be characterized as a pause." John Donne? William Blake? Jewel? Nope, it's the words and wisdom of everyone's favorite Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfield. This Saturday night, the always rocking Noe Valley Ministry has a performance......

Here at EssEffist we've been getting it from all sides as to what we should call ourselves. SFist? EssEffist? Friscoist? Bayist? Fogist? First off, you can use any of these to get to our site, so link it and bookmark it however you like - they'll all take you to the same great place. Still, we want to hear from you, our dear readers, what you think we should call ourselves. And just like Donald Rumsfeld we bring you Democracy, whether you like it or not. Vote in our poll - and try not to be an a**hole and write a script or click and reclick for hours to guarantee your preferred result. We're working on the honor system here, folks. We'll leave this poll up all week and we'll reveal the winner on Monday. If we detect any shenanigans, we're totally going to go back and check every hanging and dimpled browser cookie to make sure we're on the level. So vote already!...