In a column yesterday, local ranter Mark Morford takes on a new study that says that college kids these days are 40% less empathetic than their peers of 20 or 30 years ago. Is this a truly scientific study? Hard to say. more ›

What would Batman and Robin think? With its chic industrial/gothic design, the new “market hall” style Whole Foods that opened recently near Lake Merritt in Oakland certainly could be used for a set on the next Batman flick. more ›

We're sorry, but that's it. We added the SFGate blog to our Bloglines feeds because we figured that we could just ignore Mark Morford and maybe there would be some good stuff. Seriously, we gave them the benefit of the doubt. more ›

Virgil Porter forwarded us notice that SFGate has set up RSS feeds for some of their more popular coverage items. This means that we can link to and then snark on their coverage that much sooner after it goes up! Just kidding. It does mean that the newsreader set can now watch as articles are posted online. For your convenience, here's the list of links below -- copy and paste into your bloglines account! more ›