Whoa! A lady gave birth on the side of 101 at Bailey Avenue near San Jose early Sunday morning. The father called in to 911 at around 2:50 a.m. saying he needed an ambulance, but called back one minute later to say the baby was born fine. The ambulance came anyway, to take them to the hospital and (very impressively), CHP cleared the ensuing traffic jam in less than 30 minutes. A UC Berkeley student......

Here we were, worried that this whole Congressman Mark "NAMBLA" Foley story wouldn't have any sort of Bay Area connection so we wouldn't be able to comment on it, but we were wrong. When your representative to Congress is the House Minority Leader, there's a connection to anything in politics. And there is a connection indeed to this story. ...

While reading Wonkette yesterday, we found ourselves shocked-- shocked!-- to discover that Nancy Pelosi has accepted $8,580 dollars worth of trips paid for by lobbyists "outside sponsors." Expenses paid for included hotel expenses, air fare, and food. Most of it, however, came on one really expensive trip to Taiwan. You know, if it weren't for that videotape of us at a Dead Show with a three-foot bong, some blue unicorns, and that hippie chick Sunshine Lebowitz, we'd totally get into politics. Who wouldn't want to make $180,000 a year and get to travel around the world for free? ...