Councilman Gary Cloutier-- you know, the Vallejo mayoral candidate who was arrested in Palm Springs just this past week for public intoxication -- won the coveted title of Mayor of Vallejo today after the final vote was counted. In a race that was too close to call weeks after November's election, the final (and unofficial) results are "Cloutier with 5,722 votes and Davis with 5,718." That's a four vote difference. That's...insane. (Official should be......

On Sunday morning Gary Cloutier, 45, (the gay one!) spent several hours in jail after being arrested for public intoxication in Palm Spring, CA. But he didn't just have a few sips of an appletini. It seems that the mayor wannabe was "staggering and could barely stand," according to CBS 5, after cops found him in his car, freshly sloshed after leaving a Palm Springs bar. (And it's not even White Party season!)...

-- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? Ugh.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch]...

Yay, Civic Center Mike's back from Palm Springs! And what should he stumble upon while wheeling his suitcases out of the BART station but Bill Clinton's Yes on 87 Rally! (87 is the tax the oil companies for alternative energy proposition. Yes arguments here, No arguments here.) You have to check out Mike's post from the scene, it's hilarious. Here's some of our favorite Mike-style zingers (we're leaving a bunch of them for you......

Sipping our coffee and doing the morning blog rounds we stumbled on this short item in Gizmodo - it looks like the boss will finally be able to see through your lame "I'm sick and laid up in bed" excuse when in fact you're halfway to Palm Springs. How? With GPS TimeTrack technology from Mountain View's Xora Software Systems, that's how. Taking Big Brother to the next level, if you carry around a Nextel company......