Before you get plastered tonight, saunter over to Cafe Flore beforehand to help the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco collect signatures. In order to get the ordinance initiative on the November ballot--you remember, the initiative to have the local sewage treatment facility's name changed to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant?--the good folks at the helm of this project need a certain amount of signatures. Help them, won't you? The details are as......

Ever since SFist first reported on the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco's plan to re-name the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility in honor of our current POTUS, George W. Bush, it has spread--in the words of T. Wayne Pickering, chairman of the unofficial "Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco--like an "intestinal bug on a Carnival cruise ship." ...

Usually when a Presidential candidate announces his VP choice it's either to try and help him win some state or area that could help him win or to try and strengthen an apparent weakness. For example, Bill Clinton chose Al Gore to help him try and win the south. And in 2000, George Bush selected Dick Cheney to help alleviate concerns about his lack of experience and evilness. So with that, we announce that Ralph Nader's choice as his Vice President is our very own Matt Gonzalez....

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This was the scene the other day on everybody's favorite piece of landfill, San Francisco's Marina District. Larger version here Of course SUPER-visor Chris Daly took action to keep Segways off of our sidewalks about a half decade ago, but our law doesn't appear to stop folks from just driving around in bike lanes. (It doesn't seem to stop people from riding on sidewalks either, but oh well.) Anyway, you'll be seeing these things in......

The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many city manholes are produced and ninjas were also a hot topic, either robbing homes or entering into alibis. But the city was really rocked by how Rudy Giuliani's visits......

SFist interviews the Reverend Billy of "what would jesus buy?"...

Last week's winner, as picked by SFist Sara L, the East Bay Express! A very deep Dream Cartoon about George Bush getting eaten by a shark. The Oakland military school is not military enough. Inspirational stories of East Bay kids getting scholarships. Cover: A sweet Oakland family stuck in a nightmare bureaucratic lawsuit hell over a mudslide that destroyed their house. Tripe soup in Fruitvale. A soulless book about 90s punk, and more debate about......

It's the return of our column where we compile all the attacks and defenses of Gavin Newsom in one handy place! This week it's all attacks, though. Send your Newsom defenses here! (or post 'em in the comments.) So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin Newsom's much-touted "open door......

The neon sign that was added to the display of crosses near the Lafayette BART station was taken down as people thought it was too disrespectful. What, a neon sign not respectful? It's now back to hand-painted signs. Says Jeff Heaton, one of the organizers of the memorial "we'll keep it somber and low-key and quiet." ...

We found this story on the KGO site whle cruising around looking for Day Around the Bay stories and we thought we'd write about it. But then we watched the video of it and decided not to, mainly because it's basically perfect as is. There's nothing we could add to it that would make it more awesome than the story already is. Basically, what the story is about is this guy who is hanging a figure that looks like an arab (he says it's not an arab but a "terrorist" for which we are all missing the subtelty in his caricture). He was hanging the figure from a tree but after a complaint was made, the cops told him to take it down. So he moved it into his front lawn where it will stay until we "finish the job in Iraq". ...

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-Three fires raged in Rockridge last night and police think it's all due to arson. What the hell is going on in Oakland these days? -Former HP head honcho, CEO Carly Fiorina, can't understand why she was fired and replaced by a bunch of people who just got indicted. We would imagine that would kind of hurt, but we're also pretty sure all the millions she got as a buy out would probably ease some of that pain. ...

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate on......

Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that ruled against him, and then fled to Mexico. Dang, the Blotter does nothing. So an innocuous post of the Reader's from 2004, about George Bush's bad federal judicial nominees, somehow turned into one of the top places for people to post comments......

While waiting in line for The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai the three men in front of us were giggling about the actual English translation of the Japanese movie title. They kept using phrases like "super dirty" and "so bad." The eavesdroppers around them were straining like crazy in hopes they would utter the dirty words, but none of them seemed to be able to remember the shocking title. Of course we had to look......

We have got to program our TiVo DVR to get a season pass for CHRIS DALY -- we missed our favorite moonbat left wing District 6 Supervisor yakking it up about impeachment with "you're hurting America"'s own Tucker Carlson last night! Check out that picture of Tucker eating a ceremonial shoe when he was wrong about Hillary Clinton! Always makes us laugh. (but not as much as when Charles Barkley kissed a donkey ass after losing that bet about Yao Ming.) Good thing about the show: Daly did not say America could be defended by the Coast Guard. Bad thing about the show. Chris was rocking some sort of mountain-man unshaven look. Chris readily admitted that SF has no impact on whether Bush gets impeached, "absolutely not." But -- and you know we're always happy to mock Daly -- we have to say, he did a pretty good job defending his resolution. He noted that it cost no money to pass the resolution, that the tax revenues from San Francisco that went to the Iraq war total $800 million, and that San Francisco is right to be outraged about the way the presidency's been going.

CARLSON: There are Republican fundraisers sitting at home right now, taking notes on you, ready to raise more dough in direct mail pitches. DALY: That's beautiful. CARLSON: Congratulations. DALY: I'll take on their direct mail and square off on them and I'll beat them. And San Francisco will lead the country. And George Bush will go down as the worst president in American history.

What's the plan? The War-bloons have basically been treading water for the last couple of months, and like a small-time sucker playing conservative bets at the $5 blackjack tables in Reno, the house odds are starting to take their toll. Yet as their won-loss record sinks further into the red and the playoff dream shrivels up like Adonal Foyle's points per game average, Head Veep Chris Mullett can only watch as opportunities like the NBA trading deadline slip past like Brad Miller blowing by Troy Murphy unabated to the hoop....

'Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and all through the house, "Creature Comforts" was airing, and it included a few mouse....er...mice. OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.m. with the premiere of "Merry Christmas Everybody!" If you've ever seen Nick Park's Oscar-winning short "Creature Comforts," then you......

So close to heaven, and yet so far.... the crab boats remain docked -- even though crab season has officially started -- as the fishermen continue their price negotiations with the crab processors. The processors are offering $1.50/lb, while the crab catchers want $1.85/lb. Fishermen say that they're losing money because of increased costs (thanks a lot, George Bush), while the processors say they're also losing money because of increased fuel costs (thanks a lot, George Bush). So they've decided to wait a few days and test the crabs to see how much meat they've got on 'em this year, in the hopes that it'll resolve the question one way or the other. Aaaaaargh! Can't you guys just resolve this at $1.67? Time's a-wastin', folks! Every minute you spend in negotiations is that much less time we have to spend with our favorite lemon butter garlic dipping sauce! Look at that Dungeness crab.... begging to be killed and eaten! ...

Things got a little ugly on Fifth and Mission yesterday, as the World Can't Wait protestors struck a blow against George Bush by tossing Molotov cocktails at the right-wing bastion of the San Francisco Chronicle. ....but Ken Garcia doesn't even work there anymore! The Molotov cocktails did no damage to the building, but lit an SFPD officer's shoulder on fire. He was rapidly extinguished, but we can't imagine that improved the mood of the public safety officers any. Plus, we saw on the local news that the cocktails themselves were made out of Crystal Geyser Juice Squeeze bottles. We hope someone at least drank that refreshing lightly-carbonated pink grapefruit spritzer before filling the bottle with gasoline and lighting it. Picture from the commondreams.org site...

As we said earlier, making jokes about the President is easy. Making funny jokes isn't. Far too many comedians take the lazy way out and just resort to "George W. Bush is stupid" lines. Yeah, there might some truth to it and yeah, it's kind of liberating to say, but it's just not very witty or clever. As a result, a lot of political humor these days is way more rant than joke. And ranting is hardly ever as funny. The Second Annual George Bush Going Away Party comedy event on Saturday showed the difficulties in political humor. Especially political humor in San Franciso, where saying "Bush sucks" is greeted with the same sort of vigorous acknowledgement as saying "Yankees suck!" in Boston. There were way too many punch lines that were pretty much along the lines of "Bush is stupid" or "Cheney is evi"" or "red state voters are dumb" all greeted with thunderous applause. And the audience, about what you’d expect at such an event-- middle aged hippies from Marin with "Visualize Peace" bumper- were ready for some serious playa hatin'. The audience cheered when somebody just said "I hate SUVs." ...

Making jokes about the President is pretty easy. It's even easier to make fun of him these days what with his 38% approval rating and the Republicans sudden discovery that he's not wearing any clothes. In fact, it's so easy to do it now that there's an element of kicking a man when he's down to it. Which makes us feel kind of guilty about it. Oh, wait. Check that. You can never make enough fun of the President. This Saturday night is the The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party: An Evening of Political Comedy. The first one was held about this year in an attempt to raise money to defeat him. Obviously, it being the "second annual" means that the first one didn’t succeed. While saying that it's yet one more attempt to send our President back to Crawford might be a joke, the money for the show will go to the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors' (CCCO) "Military Out of Our Schools Program," those people trying to prevent military recruiters out of possibly excercising their freedom of choice and choosing the military. Comedians include Bill Santiago, Diane Amos, Scott Blakeman, Lisa Geduldig, Alana Devich, Ross Turner, and Aundre the Wonderwoman (who according to the press release is an Anti-death penalty advocate by day; comic by night-- those death penalty activists are always a hoot.) ...

It's easy to make fun of Sean Penn. We've done our fair share of it in the past, in fact. But you gotta give Sean credit for being a man of action. It's all too easy to go on Larry King and break down in tears while telling people how great you are for donating a million dollars, and sort of easy to tell an entire live audience that "George Bush Hates Black People" (which we thought was totally awesome), but that's not how Sean rolls. Instead, the dude saw what was going on with the flood, flew out with a bunch of people (including a photographer), got himself on a boat and rescued a bunch of people. Gave them money even. How can you make fun of that? We can't even make fun of him for not plugging a hole in his boat and having to row the thing for most of the way. Nicely done, Sean. ...

KRON 4's Brian Shields organized a huuuuuuge blogger meetup at their studios. They've decided to keep working on the rollout of their aggregator and commentary. SFist sells out and is co-opted by the drunk and beautiful crowd at the Black and White Ball. Oh, wait, we are that crowd. As our friend pointed out, it's 'Gay Season' in San Francisco. Which means that the city is full of drama -- by which, of course,......

Oh no, and after we got out the nice china and everything! President George Bush has sent his regrets that he will not be attending the party for the UN's 60th birthday that we're throwing out here in Sodom-by-the-Bay. What's more, his girlfriend Condi isn't coming either! In their place, they're sending some dude we've never heard of, Ambassador Sichan Siv, the US UNESCO rep. The president of the UN Association of SF, Nancy Peterson, said, "I am just reading into this that the administration is taking a very dubious stance symbolically toward the importance of the United Nations to the American people." The Bush administration? No way! ...

Three estranged lesbian couples presented their cases to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco yesterday, seeking legal clarification [via The Legal Reader] on their rights as parents. Two women are seeking custody and one woman is seeking child support from their former partners. Justice Ming W. Chin brought up how legal statutes which refer to 'mother and father' might need to be rewritten, and Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who is one of George......

Whether you're filing for an extension at the last minute, biting the bullet and paying them now, or just saying "F**k it, it's cash under the table from here on out," you're probably about as mad at the government of these United States as you'll be all year. The bastards! Taking your hard earned money to support a war! Alternately: The bastards! Taking your hard earned money to support Cadillac-driving welfare queens! If you're......

So apparently everyone was shocked -- shocked! -- to hear that someone wanted to kill our dearest President George W. Bush. Of course, SFist's first thought was to call most of our friends to make sure it wasn't them. After all, George Bush probably doesn't come here very often (ever?) for a reason. Heck, if we got close enough, we might even take one for the team. We say 'might' because we don't want......