Former Marin resident and current insane person, Sharon Stone, made the following Jerry Falwell-ish quip the other day. They're not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who's a good friend of mine ... I'm not happy about how the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else ... All these earthquakes and stuff happened and I thought, 'Is that karma?' When you are not nice, bad......

Coming from the Editor's mobile communication device, we received a text today with the following signature: Sent from my iPhone / Typed with my pinky Yes, yes -- it's funny because it's true. But... it is true. Unless you shun digesting, it's sometimes difficult to text using iPhones's touchpad.......

Good grief. During a speech/swipe at Barack Obama to Israel's Knesset (i.e., Israel's legislature), President Bush quipped: Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this......

This might be yet another ploy to get on SFist. Failing that: what? Image credit: the formidable Jim Herd......

Mayor Gavin Newsom, who seems to be getting a decent amount of ink in the Gray Old Lady these days, says the following about recycling: It's purposefulness that could otherwise be construed as ego...[y]ou want to be the greatest city. You want to be the leading city. You want to be on the cutting edge. I'm very intense about it. Well put. Also, for your enjoyment, some footage of the Gav working it in......