Oh is it a voting day or something? It totally sneaked up on us! It still feels like Monday today. Actually it also feels like October. Anyway, you should probably vote yes on A and no on H, because that's what everyone else is doing. Prop A will protect The Mt Soledad National War Memorial and do something to the air force? and will transform some colleges. Also, Aristotle endorsed it it. Proposition H......

Harvey Milk Club President Brian Basinger addressed the crowd at today's rally in the Castro. Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Senator Carole Migden, and Supervisor Bevan Dufty also spoke out to support Prop A and oppose Prop H. Sadly, and to the best of our knowledge, Mecke wasn't there, thus no sun-kissed shots of Quintin. For more info, visit Transit Not Traffic. Image credit: anonymous......

So, obviously, SFist can't even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Prop A. We've been covering its progress for months, and now it's evolved into a smart, fair compromise that has just about everyone on board -- everyone except a local Republican group. Our local GOP is backing the loathsome Prop H, which would, no joke, replace bus stops, trees, and bike lanes with parking garages. Could this be any more like......

Last week's winner, the new tabloid-style redesigned Bay Guardian. Pool of blood! Murders! Headless Body In Topless Bar! All for their 40th anniversary. Looks good -- but this type is hard to read. Various outrages in our city. And man, we thought this "Wade versus Redmond" ad on page 17 for the Third Street Gym referred to Tim Redmond. The redesign's throwing off our skim-o-tron! Cover: The SFPD ignoring Asian-American gang stabbings in the Tenderloin. And Sonic Reducer declined to go to a party with a Fleetwood Mac cover band featuring Joanna Newsom as Stevie Nicks!?!!?!??! (Well, it was raining pretty hard last week....) Making a triumphant return, the San Jose Metro!. Second Amendment advocates in San Jose use Chris Daly's own Prop H to get the right to bear arms into the state Constitution. Please, no more propositions! Haven't we learned from our mistakes of the past? Cover article: excellent Chinese subregional food in Milpitas (Darda rules). Why do alternative-rock listeners have to go all anti-Latino about the switchover at 104.9? And SFist Eve's horoscope: she should expand her spiritual life. After the jump, the two New Times publications (the Weekly and the EBX). ...

Funny, we've never heard of the NRA endorsing a waiting period before. San Francisco and the NRA have agreed that the city will voluntarily delay enforcement of Proposition H for two months to allow the NRA to challenge the law in court. The NRA in exchange agreed not to move for a restraining order before the trial court (after getting tossed from the appeals court), which could have delayed enforcement for a much longer time. Instead, everyone's just going to fight it out in court, with a hearing scheduled on February 15, 2006. The main effect of this agreement is that High Bridge Arms, the only gun dealer in San Francisco, doesn't have to stop selling guns by this Sunday, which is when Prop H was to go into effect. (The article also says two private dealers in the city can continue to sell guns too, but doesn't say who they are.) The other portion of the law, requiring everyone to turn in their weaponry, doesn't go into effect until April 1, 2006 anyways, at which point the legal case should probably be decided one way or the other. Picture of High Bridge Arms from CBS News...

Well, they executed Tookie Williams. He declined a last meal and ate the standard prison fare instead (mac and cheese and green beans), and it took him 36 minutes to die after the lethal injection. Stealing bikes from disabled kids! You're going to hell for that one! And speaking of going to hell, a woman in San Bruno was convicted of dragging a hapless Jehovah's Witness into her house last Christmas day and beating her with a butcher knife. The Jehovah's Witness rang the wrong doorbell (we'll say). At the sentencing, the defendant conceded that maybe she'd "overreacted," and that she's getting psychiatric help now. The NRA suffered a setback in their anti-Prop H litigation, as the appeals court tossed out their lawsuit and said to sue in the trial court instead. Didn't we say that too? ...

We've got friends on both sides of the Prop H debate: friends with handguns and friends who've lost relatives to handguns. Friends whose parents were proud Black Panthers and friends who co-authored the proposition. Of course, our stated middle ground is that no one has banned shotguns, which you're more than welcome to carry openly. Now that's what we call a deterrent! In 2002, nearly 10 in every 100,000 Californians died at the hands......