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SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll had this to say this morning regarding Gavin Newsom and the discreet charm of underage men.

Hillary Clinton's Inner Tracy Flick

Photo and discussion re: carbon offsets.

News of the recent "execution" of two coyotes by the Feds in Golden Gate Park last Sunday night still reverberates. It turns out that Ed Jew warned us all about the issue late last year. Vic Lee over at Channel 7 makes the point that park authoritahs didn't take tangible steps to address this issue, but it's not exactly clear what could have been done. We recall seeing signs warning about the dangers of coyotes in GGP - they might have been unofficial or homemade. But leave it Jon Carroll to put things all in 'sperpective.

Okay, we're a local news junkie Asian-American, and we're just going to say it -- we're a little embarrassed for our people from yesterday. Or, rather, we're going to strongly support investing more resources into Asian-American mental health advocacy and support groups.

Today we have dueling columnists, news on the investigation, and an actual eyewitness account. Yes, it's the Day In Bakers Dozen or as we think we'll call it from now on, Gleegate (hat tip to Jon Carroll).

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.

As our former co-editor Eve moves on in at the Chronicle as their Blogging and Interactive editor today, we do a little imagining about how her first day might be going!

With the advent of this Internet thingamabob, newspapers are finding themselves in quite a world of Darwinian hurt. In short, adapt or die. Lately, the Chron has been adapting by having some of their most favored writers do blogs on the SFGate side. Not a bad idea really as we're sure the idea of paying $30 a year to read Jon Carroll's cat columns is not going to bring in the cash money. How they've been getting the writers to do it is a good question as we have a feeling not many of them were that psyched on the idea. We're thinking either by gun point or with long-lost incriminating photos.

For years, arts groups have been complaining about not getting enough money and what money they get not going to the right people. Part of the problem was that the city's art fund, which mainly comes from hotel and other taxes have continuously been robbed of funding from the Board of Supervisors looking to fill budget holes. So last year, after years of complaining, something was done: a task force was formed to look into it. After a year of debating, the task force issued their findings and found that the key to solving this problem is to form another committee. That and there should be more money given to the program. Oh, and it would be super nice if the Board of Supes would kindly not raid funds to pay for other things. Some say that this won't do anything as it just adds another level of bureaucracy to everything. Others point out that committees cost money too. And Jon Carroll wonders what if the Board of Supes just stopped raiding the fund?

In light of all the brouhaha over Gerardo Sandoval's now notorious appearance on Hannity & Colmes last week, the question still out there is what the hell was he thinking? And we don't mean that for what he said but more for what was he thinking saying that on a show on Fox. After all, Hannity & Colmes is to political discourse what two drunken frat boys shoving each other outside the Balboa Cafe because they "have a problem with each other" is to Greco-Roman wrestling.

Look, you've probably noticed lots of other people talking about this, and look, it's not like we don't care about the Middle East or Iran or anything (hey, we read both Persepolises, we'll have you know -- and Reading Lolita in Tehran.) But -- well, look. We've tried. Good Lord, we've tried. But we just cannot get through these Letters From Iran by Sean Penn that the Chronicle Datebook is faithfully publishing. Not even to mock. We just can't get through them. We can't even scroll through them online, they tire us out so much. We like Mr. Penn fine, don't get us wrong -- he seems like a nice and thoughtful man and a good actor and all that. Just -- well, he's not really a writer, now, is he? A history of US-Iran relations? Iran's ambivalence about the US? Please, Datebook, please -- make it stop! We were wrong -- we would prefer some more articles about how to play Sudoku, or lengthier Jon Carroll colummns. Picture of S. Penn by Robin Weiner, from the Chron

As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And you know who we love the most? No, not Jon Carroll. No, not Ken Garcia. We love Bad Reporter!!! God, we love Bad Reporter! Marry us, Don Asmussen!! Who else can monitor the state of San Francisco hair gel politics so trenchantly? Who else could draw Dick Cheney's pottymouth with such an adorable snarl of the lip? Maria Shriver's cheekbones! Gavin and Kimberly on the rug!! FROM WHAT SICK WELLSPRING DO YOUR GENIUS IDEAS ORIGINATE????? We can only stare, awed and envious, at the heights of brilliance to which Mr. Asmussen reaches on his always-changing publication schedule, and then, silently, move down the back page of Datebook to read the new Dear Abby's advice. ("Have you considered seeing a therapist?" It's always "have you considered seeing a therapist.")

For those wondering what happens to columnists when they get let go from their respective papers, we're beginning to find out that just like everyone else, they go blog. Oh, Internet, what aren't you good for? Case in point is Glenn Dickey, ex-columnist for the Chronicle who was unceremoniously "reassigned" last fall. While he still writes the occasional story for the Chronicle, his long-running column has ceased to be. So, over the past month, Dickey has gone online with a blog of his own, GlennDickey.com. Could Laurel Wellman be next? Rob Morse? Jon Carroll's cats?