As most of you know by now, the George W Bush Sewage Plant proposal--news that SFist broke way back in March (yay, us!)--is making the rounds all across this great country of ours. And after landing on FOX News last week, the steady stream of hate mail makes for a fantastic read. Here are two of our favorite,most thought-provoking rebuttals so far. Ahem: You truly are a cancerous ulcer on the anus of an......

Compelling television's loss is the bargain bin's gain. KRON 4 is up for sale. Again. Amid a "high level of interest," it seems, Young Broadcasting plans on possibly peddling the network to the highest bidder. KRON 4, once the golden child as the Bay Area's NBC affiliate, was sold eight years ago and turned into an independent station. After seeing much of the KRON 4 news team jump ship - like Pete Wilson (RIP),......

What's on the cell phones of those who survived the recent tiger attack? ...

Anyways, Sean saw this, failed to see any humor in it, and made his offer to be the money bags to everyone's favorite "hunky-hipster attorney". Again, we don't know if this is true or what the what is with the story. It could be a joke, a crazy rumor, or something Sean and Matt jokingly talked about while drinking some wine and discussing the finer points of Costas Gravas's L'Aveu. ...

Looks like we're in a heapin' load of trouble as those who like to get outraged at us are outraged again. Or, at least something the Archbishop of San Francisco did. Last weekend, while conducting mass, the Archbishop was giving communion when up came two people "wearing bizarre makeup and costumes, including one dressed in a parody of a nun's habit." Hmm…couldn’t that also describe the Pope? Anyways, the "offenders" in question, of course, were members of the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence. So Archbishop George Niederauer gave them communion. ...

African clawed frogs at Golden Gate Park...

You know that woman who was a Madame in the DC area who threatened to release all the names and info on her client list? Well, she just went out and released all the names and info on her client list. In an e-mail to a Washington D.C. radio station, the Madame, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, said she gave everything to "what I believe to be one of the most reputable and respected investigative news organizations in the country, to assist me with my needs." We somehow don't think she meant NPR. ...

A thoughtful reader sent us this link from racist Asianweek columnist Kenneth Eng's interview on Fox News with John Gibson. Can we just pass along the following quotes? ...Personally if I'm racist then so is Sofia Coppola. And more importantly I'd like to talk about the philosophy of "Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate," which tells a story about cyborg dragons fighting in the Middle Ages. [....]Well, I generally hate black and white people, but the [why I......

--> Our favorite Fox News anchor, Kimberly Guilfoyle, worked the runway for the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection, at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. The fashion show raised awareness for heart disease in women, which Kim says took the lives of both of her grandmothers. So why didn't we know about this? The fashion show happened on February 2, so we were probably too busy with SFistGate and TourkGate to notice. Good to......

Last week, the Washington "Moonie" Times wrote a story saying that, in effect, that Nancy Pelosi requested that the Air Force provide her flights to and from Washington whenever she actually deigns to come home to the City by the Bay. The story is potentially embarrassing to Pelosi as it plays on the caricature of her being shrewish bitch who requests military planes while our brave sons and daughters are dying to fight the war on terror even though Iraq has nothing to do with it and even Republicans wish the war would end but they're still going to stop non-binding resolutions to stop it. Or something like that. As these things tend to happen, the story got out into the Republican echo chamber and you know what happens whenever that occurs-- the press has to cover it like it's an important story. Also, so called blabber mouths in politics and cable news spout it off like it's the unbridled truth without actually investigating it. ...

So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving for "personal reasons" the mind does tend to go to certain places. But no matter where your mind wandered, we have a feeling it didn't wander as far as what really happened because the Chron is reporting that Tourk quit mainly because Gavin had an affair with Tourk's wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk. Rippey-Tourk (and woah, what a name) was Gavin's appointments secretary at the time....

So yes, we have a predilection for hitting up Fox News occasionally. We like to look at it as testing our mental fortitude, a way to see how far we could go before our blood pressure rises to the point we have to throw things. Somehow, this weekend we missed Matt Gonzalez appearing on Fox's "The Lineup" to talk about the Yale Choral Group story (Yalegate? Doughgate? Choirgate?). Oh, and your host of the Lineup? The former Mrs. Gavin Newsom, Kimberly Guilfoyle. ...

Today was opening day for the Board of Supervisors as it were as today was the first day of work for 2007. First up? The voting in of a new President who happens to be same as the old President-- Aaron Peskin. The vote was unanimous. Said Chris Daly who nominated him: "I think it's important to have someone attuned to the needs not just in his district ... but also in the districts......

-The Board of Supes have their first meeting of the year with Gavin as their Very Special Guest Star. -What do you do when you can't make budget? Make welfare cuts!...

The Navy was all set to commission a battleship in San Francisco in 2008, the Makin Island, but have decided to move it to San Diego instead. It turns out they're a little sensitive to all the anti-military stuff thrown around the city. The Navy, what a bunch of wusses. Eh, just so y'all know, that was a joke. The last thing we need is Fox News knocking on our door for questioning the machismo of the armed forces. ...

You know, over here on the Right Coast we're hearing a lot about Nancy. Is she as liberal as they say she is? Is she as nutty as the rest of us? And how could she already be screwing the pooch? We did the best we could to defend her, or at least say she's smarter than she appears and she won't blow it but, she's not helping her cause....

Two days after Nancy Pelosi had to redo her business cards to say "Madame Speaker," the fall-out of the election is still falling out. Pelosi yesterday gave kind of a victory lap press conference where she made a few jokes, tried not to sound too giddy, and said bipartisan about twice every minute. For those of you wondering how good of a job she could do as the Dem leader despite her obvious lack of television charisma, wonder no more-- she started off her press conference with a cute homily about children being the future and God help us whenever a politician says children are the future. ...

Just as we were putting away the original Jason Fortuny Seattle Craigslist scandal, a copy-cat comes along and tries to run the same prank again. This time with "better" results (Better only in the sense that he is now getting sued). This story started a few months ago when Jason Fortuny decided to put up a pretty intense women seeking men ad on Craigslist, then proceeded to publish the "results", people's phone numbers, names,......

Well, they're just doing what you were going to do anyways -- a political consultant in Fremont has filed a complaint after learning that postal workers tossed "tens of thousands" of her No On Measure K(against protecting Coyote Hills) and No On Measure L (against a utility tax) mailers to be sent to the zip code 94538 as "undeliverable." (Also, some mailers for City Council candidate Bill Harrison, and some Pennysavers.) The consultant claims her......

We won't say the Democrats are confident right now, but we hear Nancy Pelosi is already asking her staff to refer to her only as Madame Speaker, Ms. Speaker if you're nasty. Democrats are so confident these days that Kos himself weighed in yesterday to say that everyone is getting too confident. Hell, Democrats are so confident these days that they're starting to wonder if Nancy being in charge is really such a great idea. ...

What with PageF-----gate going on, Fox News has to be desperate these days to stir things up. After all, misidentifying politician's political parties can only work for so long before even Fox News viewers catch on. So how do we know they're getting desperate these days? Because as Stephen Colbert would say, Bill O'Reilly just put Jon Carroll of the Chron's back pages on notice. ...

-Bad weekend in Oakland as there were at least four shootings and illegal car rallies that lead to more shootings. -And speaking of crime, Matier & Ross detail some guy who's been arrested at least fifty times in San Francisco yet keeps on being released to do more crime. -Candidate in San Jose Mayoral race who pledged to clean up city hall caught doing unethical things with campaign funds. -Alix Rosenthal gets endorsement of Burning......

Local hotels are all smiles as they prepare for cable news talking heads to storm the city en masse as our local politicians have put us in the cross hairs again. And what did they do to bring this upon us again? Go after a bunch of fresh-faced kids. Well, Jesus loving fresh-faced kids, the one's who were here over the weekend for their "Battle Cry for a Generation” shindig. We here those rallies were hookup city. ...

Earlier this week kissy couples were wading through roses and red tissue paper deeper than an east coast snow dump and singles shook a tiny, lonely fist (no ring!) at it all. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Valentine's season is in the can, finally. Austinist is already pulsing with SX energy and posting on the People's Choice Award nominees and the short films that will be playing while the......

It's been a bad week for the Republican Party. So bad, in fact, that Cheney shooting a 78 year old man might have been the best thing to happen, if anything to take people's attention away from much more awful stuff. And so with polls sagging, scandals mounting, and bodies dropping, the RNC flashed the bat signal and out to the rescue came Fox News. Cause what rallies the conservative base more? Love of small government and deficit cutting? Bwah. No, it's beating up on wussy, liberal, America-hating, straw-man liberals. Which is why this week Fox News sent out their big guns and went big game hunting in San Francisco, the Quailtard covey of wussy, liberal, America-hating, straw-man liberals. The big show was Tuesday night when Hannity & Colmes not only had our very own Gerardo Sandoval on their show to be lamb to the slaughter and discuss the possibly earth-shattering news that the Board of Supes don't want a WWII era battleship to be berthed in the Bay, but Hannity was live in SF, parachuted into enemy territory as it were. They were so into it, in fact, they hyped the story all night. ...

Well, Eminem is back with his on-again off-again Kim, but SF's sporadic First Lady's now not only on the outs with Gavin but now also with her employer, Court TV. Matier and Ross report that Ms.-Guilfoyle-if-you're-nasty has announced that she's going to be taking a job with FOX News, hosting a weekend law/crime show called "The Lineup." Kimbers coyly refused to say anything mean about her new channel, but you gotta wonder if new co-worker-to-be......

As you might imagine, Bill O'Reilly's comments about our fair city deserving a terrorist attack managed to raise a few hackles. Including from Chris Daly who was so angered by Bill's hot-headed comments that he got hot-headed himself and called on Fox News to fire him (editor's note-- wouldn't you love to see a Celebrity Death Match type battle go down between O'Reilly and Daly? Wouldn't that be Awesome? Our money would totally be on Daly too 'cause nobody puts Daly in the corner) . And Aaron Peskin said something along the lines about Bill being hyped up on Oxycontin, just like Rush Limbaugh. So O'Reilly went on the radio and tried to set the record straight. ...

Why, no, as a matter of fact, we didn't feel a thing. But don't be deceived: there's been an earthquake! Two of them, in fact! Quick, turn on Fox News! We're all going to die!!!1!11~1! Or whatever. News reports, such as (arguably) this one are sketchy and unreliable, but as far as we could make out from the crawl they stuck over Dr. Phil, there was a 7.1 somewhere offshore of Eureka, and a......

The Schiavo bill passed without almost any input from Bay Area lawmakers. How did that happen?...

It’s looking like the pre-season favorite for MVP of the 2005 Giants season might not be trainer Stan Conte after all, but Barry Bonds’ publicist. Because today a story is breaking that can’t be any good as it involves two things that give any publicist nightmares: mistresses and Geraldo Rivera. Yep, the mustached-one scored a hot news story as he interviewed some woman claiming to be Bonds’ alleged mistress. In the interview, she not only discussed their affair, but also said that Barry was using steroids as far back as 1999. The alleged mistress, Kimberly Bell, was on Geraldo because she’s been trying to peddle a book for years about the affair which supposedly lasted for nine years and ended with Barry offering a mere $20,000 in hush money. ...