Matier & Ross today have a story about a police officer who is in a little bit of trouble for writing a letter to the Chron criticizing the Mayor's homeless policy. In the letter, officer John Lewis, complained that the current plan, mainly to roust the homeless at 4 in the morning, is ineffective and that the homeless people he encounters neither wants services nor are scared off by the idea of citations. His idea is to roust the homeless, or at least watch over them, during the day when the homeless aren't asleep but in their full drunken/drugged out state. Lewis is now "under investigation" with the possibility of being reprimanded for what could easily be assumed as his act of letter writing. more ›

Now that it's been revealed that the President was illegally eavesdropping on people and that his basic reaction was "suck on it," what was once the fevered acid flashback of a few hippies in Marin and Daily Kossacks is now suddenly going mainstream. The "I" word is out there and even if we're only talking about the equivalent of some unknown band suddenly generating a bit of a buzz and a faint whiff of interest from record execs, it's still generating some buzz. Maybe not the Strokes buzz, more Super Furry Animal Buzz, which is more buzz than it had before. Hopping on that buzz today is Barbara Boxer who sent a letter to four Presidential Scholars asking if they think what King George did rises to the merits of "impeachable offense." more ›