During an interview with Financial Times earlier this month, Donald Rumsfeld talked about his new memoir, Known and Unknown, and his tenure with the Bush administration. The former US Defense Secretary also talked football. Namely, the Oakland Raiders. Who, it seems, are evil. more ›

Other events (all movies, because Monday's a tough night): more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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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! more ›