Holy begeezus, America. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms just busted up a plot to "assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree." Also, two men planned to "shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14," but that, thankfully, was also cock-blocked. (Apparently, neo-nazi are waaaay into numerology, believing 88 and 14 to be symbolic, magical numbers. Seriously.) Anyway, yeah, we don't have much to say on that. Except: shudder. (CBS 5) more ›

In case you missed it, President 25% Approval Ratings was able to ram through some legislation revamping all those FISA laws you keep hearing about. It's hard to make heads or tails of what the bill says as the administration, in a surprise to no one, won't tell anyone what it says, but it involves making warrants kind of unnecessary, the monitoring of anyone suspected as a "terrorist" and-- get this-- the oversight by one Alberto "Fredo" Gonzalez. That's more than letting the fox guard the hen house, that's letting Michael Vick run the SPCA. more ›

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While this story may not be about San Francisco, any story about cross-dressing invariably is. After all, isn’t it one of the joys of SF that by now, guys dressed in drag usually elicits a yawn at best? Of course, that’s not the response given in other places- places such as, oh, Texas. Apparently, a small town in Texas has cancelled it’s homecoming tradition of boys dressing like girls and girls dressing like boys because, it’s well, too gay. That day, a tradition which has gone back generations, used to be called called “TWIRP(The Woman Is Requested to Pay) Day" but was changed due to a parents' complaints about what it could cause little Johnny and Susie to become. Says the concerned parent: more ›