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It seems CODEPINK, a female-based grassroots pro-peace (and judging by the photographs, anti-conditioner) movement, recently got all up in Condoleezza Rice's face at Capitol Hill. This protester, sporting bloody hands, got a little too close to Condi, shouting "war criminal!" at her before she was pushed away and snapped up by the police. Four other CODEPINK protesters were arrested.

Photo of the screening of an admission free movie about fair trade in Dolores Park

SFist recieved this call to action from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview with him, we believe that he raises some very thought-provoking points and offers further candid insight into the imbroglio. If you believe that moving forward with the case against the "VideoGate" participants is a waste of time, he asks you to take action by writing. Also attached below is a letter to his union's journal, in which he castigates the union for non-support.

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. Hey, why is Sucka Free City before the letters this week? Anti-Jewish slurs at Rainbow Grocery. The story behind that weird killing in Hayes Valley you guys got all worked up at us about (blah blah blah, hipsters, blah blah, SFist is racist, blah blah). Cover article: Disbar more lawyers. We are adoring the cautious yet game-for-adventure tone in this Southern Exposure pie delivery service piece! Meredith Brody bills the Weekly for her belly dancer. Hey, SFist Ced liked it! Let's Get Killed on the spate of bands coming in to perform single albums live, including Sonic Youth with Daydream Nation. We find that phenomenon so mysterious. The Bouncer passes along the theory that there are three types of bars in this city: Irish, hipster, and bars with two Asian women behind the bar. Also -- you may have heard the new Weekly web guy is now no longer with the Weekly -- best of luck to you, Matt Stroud! He was super super nice about the Day Around The Baymixup and we were looking forward to getting to know him!

The City Attorney's Office has filed a reply to Ed Jew's response to the State AG from last week that if you don't think he lives in the city, you're a racist.

--Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.]

Before we launch into today's Ed Jew news, we just want to say -- have you guys seen this awesome debate on the political chatboard the Wall about whether our use of the term "Tapioca Ed" is racist towards Asian-Americans? Here's the line we love! "Instead of leveraging a bull*** website on what's offensive, why don't you ask someone Asian American?" Let's!

--No parking for your bulldozer? Just leave it on the beach. (Thanks to reader Joe, who sent this absolutely gorgeous postcard picture to us. GREETINGS FROM THE BULLDOZER!)

--Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair.

How can this be true, I-Team? It must be impossible. That's the only explanation. Do you really expect us to believe that in the past five years, out of the thousands of bike-car collisions in the Yay Area, of driving unsafely. Just like how black people can't be racist.

The Governator continues to go where no Governor has gone before and will go on MTV's "Pimp My Ride" to pimp his ride. Actually, several other Governors have appeared on reality shows before. Michigan's Governor Jennifer Granholm tried out for "America's Next Top Model" and former Governor George Allen is all set to appear on the new reality show "I Swear I'm Not a Racist" along with Don Imus and Michael Richards.

Here's todays roundup of news stories

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's?

A thoughtful reader sent us this link from racist Asianweek columnist Kenneth Eng's interview on Fox News with John Gibson. Can we just pass along the following quotes?

So what's the latest with those two Asian-American embarrassments of last week, racist Kenneth Eng and Gavin-obsessed Han Shin? Or, as we call them around here, Green Dragon and Purple Glove!

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The local newsweekly Asianweek is in a heap of trouble after running an opinion piece titled "Why I Hate Blacks," by a local 24-year-old Asian-American young-adult science fiction author named Kenneth Eng. The article has been taken off the Asianweek website, but is still available in the print copy currently on newsstands. [Update: .pdf of the article at page 2 of this link.] Other articles by Eng remain available online too, like "why I hate Asians," why he hates Caucasians, negative incidents he experienced in New York, and a mildly-violent fantasy, all compiled under his column, "God of the Universe." Great.

Let's hear it for SFist Sarah L and her awesome weeklies wrapup from last week! Whoooo! And an extra-special thanks for compiling not only a weekly of the week but the weekly of the year as well.

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

At a question and answer session in front of an organization of African-American ministers near downtown Sacramento, Phil Angelides went back-back-back-back-back to say something nasty about the Governator in an attempt to stir things up. After telling the audience that Arnie doesn't care about black people, he said he can prove it because, back in the day, Arnie allegedly was pro-Apartheid. Cue reactions of shock mixed in with whole heaping bits of "wha?"

More hijinks at the Lusty Lady, and this time, not union-related! A Cal football player has been suspended from the team after he got in a fight with a bouncer at the famed feminist strip club. Last weekend, the player allegedly entered into a video booth while his friend (whom the player called his "agent," even though the player's not currently represented) demanded they be given two prostitutes. When they were denied, Lusty Lady reps say the player became violent and called the bouncer a racially-derogatory name as well as a homophobic one. (We know, we're being so coy.) Some of the fight was caught on a security camera. The Berkeley athletic department is investigating, but the football player says, "[The bouncer] tried to portray me as someone who’s racist, I'm not. Tried to portray me as someone who’s egotistical, I'm not."

For whatever reason, politicians like to record themselves for reasons of "posterity." Like someday, some historian or what have you, will find the tapes and be so dazzled by the intellectual fortitude of the office debates that they’d write positively glowing reviews of their administrations. This despite the fact, it never goes well. For anybody. Your latest victim of taped recordings is our Governor who is occasionally taping himself for all the future historians out there to document his governing genius

If you think the Ma v. Ja race is content-free, you should try the State Senate District 8 race between Leland Yee and Mike Nevin. Yawn, unless you like trying to figure out the byzantine nature of state politics personal relationships. (i.e., why didn't Gavin Newsom endorse San Franciscan Yee over San Mateo County's Nevin? Does it have something to do with the mysterious feud between Fiona and Leland?)

LAist tracks an award-winning TV writer who worked on Good Times to a homeless shelter and sees a Little Old Lady get a jaywalking ticket because she can't get across fast enough (in the same post!). Poets invade Metro and an LAist contributor's new book asks WWJB.

So while SF's mayor dates celebrities, and San Ramon's mayor breaks up fights, Oakland mayor Jerry Brown's on a different level. He's already dated a celebrity! What's left to do? Well, start a fight of his own, allegedly. The Alameda County DA's office is investigating charges made by an African-American Oakland clubgoer that Jerry Brown made racist comments towards her and broke her cameraphone. According to the woman, a fight broke out outside Club @17, on Telegraph and 17th, and her friend was hit in the face with a stiletto heel. As she was tending to her friend, she alleges that Jerry Brown said, "That's what you get for being here," and that he was making references to "you people." She said she then started recording him on her cell phone, at which point Brown reached over and squeezed her phone until the plastic casing broke. Brown agrees that he was on the scene, but says he only went in to try and mediate the fight, and he vehemently denies having broken anyone's cell phone in the process. The woman also concedes that her phone still works. Cops on the scene watched the phone video she taped, but said they couldn't hear anything and all they could see was a big hand on the screen. Out of all the details of this story, for some reason we think the big hand is the funniest.

Well, we've made a life-decision. At the risk of offending both vegetarians with our brutality and discering foodies with our naivete, we've finally roasted our first fresh-killed chicken, and we're never going to cook frozen again if we can help it. Vaguely racist urban legends about Chinatown aside, you don't actually get a live chicken to deal with on your own -- they're prepared that day or even to order. It's a little spendy (we paid $1.59 a pound), but it's oh so worth it.

....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in poor judgment, both, or neither, the post-video postmortems have already begun. Newsom -- was he right to react so swiftly? Going overboard? Or just trying to distract us from the murder rate? Meanwhile, 8 of the suspended officers have been put back at their posts. One officer held his own press conference to state that his inclusion in the video (sticking his tongue out) was from outtakes from a training video they were shooting and he had absolutely no idea the clips would be used in a potentially-sexist manner. The latest? So remember how this whole thing started because "someone" leaked the clips to the press? Well, the San Francisco Sentinel is reporting that they have an email showing that the supposed leak was actually from director Andrew Cohen himself! Is this just to get attention? To get his co-workers in trouble? To get his attorney friend some more bad publicity? And why's Cohen got five separate lawyers in the first place? Funny, the video's not nearly as interesting as the subsequent drama.

We have to admit to being kind of shocked that in l'affaire currently known as Kruegergate, Felipe as well as the other angered players, are getting the brunt of it. They, after all, are the aggrieved party. Krueger's comments may not have been intentional and he could be the the kind of person who loves cute puppies, but it still doesn't change the fact that what he said was, in it's way racist. It's especially a little weird considering this is all going on in the Bay Area, the bastion of "tolerance," "open-mindedness" and intolerance of intolerance. Is it just blowback over the suckiness of the team? Or maybe its just one big huge anti-reaction to all the PC wars fought in our little neck of the woods on a daily basis. After all, it's almost impossible to sneeze in this town without having somebody lecture you on some sort of –ism you've just committed and how you've somehow empowered the, take your pick, patriarchy/neoconservative militarists/multinational corporations. Anyways, for those still looking for an explanation on the firings of the KNBR Three, P.J. Corkery in the Examiner has a pretty good bead on what the what was. The villain in all this? Not Felipe, not Krueger, but Janet Jackson. Follow the bouncing ball here-- Janet Jackson's boob pops out, a nation screams "what about the children?" and the Republicans go into their quadrennial crusade to make the world safe for "family values." As a result, the FCC starts fining everything. Enter the corporate overloard of KNBR, Susquehanna Media, who also own KFOG and the Bone. Susquehanna Media it turns out, is owned by Pfaltzgraff Pottery-- what one has to do with the other we have no idea, but there you have it. Pfaltzgraff Pottery is being flattened by Tom Friedman's flat world globalization machine and so Pfaltzgraff Pottery puts Susquehanna Media up for sale. What's the last thing a company trying to sell radio stations needs? A radio station under investigation by the FCC for offensive material. Ergo and ipso facto, good bye Krueger, Agnew and Rhein, victims of this ever changin in which we live in. So, if you want to get mad, don't blame Felipe, blame faceless corporate media congolemerations! Cause if there's one thing we can all rally around, it's hating on them.

While you're worrying about how you're going to get to work next week if there's a strike on the BART, we're worrying about our friends who toil for Hearst over at 5th and Mission. That's right, there's not one but two big contracts expiring today -- many Chronicle unions, including the Pressman's Union and the Media Workers Guild, among others, are in the 11th hour of negotiations. And if Frank "Darth" Vega's behavior is any indication, the negotiations aren't going well.

We received an email from Russell Stein who pointed out his story on IndayBay.org, "Harmon Leon - the Steven [sic] Glass of the Sacramento News & Review?" Big red-alert lights went off at the SFist Fortress of Solitude -- Stephen Glass is (or at least, was) the go-to boogeyman of ethical impropriety in the field of journalism. Harmon Leon is the hilarious dude behind the SF Weekly's "Infiltrator" features (and dropped by SFist for an interview a while back).