Oh, how we love the San Francisco Public Library. The online reserve system, the many convenient branches, and how cool is the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection (thanks for the tip, Dad!)? You can look at their collection online, or view it in person at the Main Library's San Francisco History Center. We love our library! more ›

Dick and George may have thought they were getting off scott-free a few weeks ago when Sean Elsbrend decide to move Chris Daly's impeachment measure to the rules committee, but they were wrong. Oh so wrong. Because yesterday, your San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted by a 7-3 measure to impeach Bush AND Cheney. For those keeping score at home, that would mean your new President would be Dennis Hastert. Said Daly during the vote, "I think the case (for impeachment) is clear, and I think it's appropriate for us to weigh in." Look for the Board of Supes to also weigh in on the UAE port deal, social security reform, and "American Idol." more ›

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Sci-fi geeks may have the upcoming Star Wars movie, but to political geeks, their Revenge of the Sith may just be this Friday when UC Berkeley hosts a discussion with New York Times' columnists Thomas Friedman AND Maureen Dowd. It's like the Sunday edition of the New York Times come to life except without the coffee and bagels. Seeing these two super-stud columnists together is like the "Real World/Road Rules Challenges" before they became overdone and overrun by attention seeking camera hos. Friedman, the Times' foreign affairs columnist, is the happy global warrior, the cheerleader for globalization. And Dowd is the Times' resident bete noir of the Bushies with her snarky and a little too full of itself takes on our political world. Friedman has three pulitzers and Dowd one. That's a lot of pulitzers. more ›

Softball article on Maureen Dowd. more ›