SFist Nick forwarded along an unintentionally-hilarious article by professional provocateur Christopher Hitchens from earlier this week in Slate. In this article, Hitchens mostly complains about Conrad Black, the Canadian press tycoon recently convicted of corporate fraud, but check out this kicker at the end! Postscript: I am writing this from the San Francisco Bay Area, where all summer a local politician named Ed Jew has been in trouble over his filing of an allegedly bogus......

--They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by recorders not padded with extra time. Always pad your live shows, people! --Left In SF notes that no one sees Tapioca Ed Jew in either his Sunset house or his Burlingame house. --There's a hilarious picture of Al Gore at his reading......

So last week, we got an email from a friend of ours, asking us to show up to the State Building on a Sunday afternoon to vote for him for some obscure delegate position with the state Democratic party. Sure, we thought. Always good to vote for a friend! So how entertaining for us to find out we were in fact part of a huge juggernaut of people supporting people who support Mark Leno in......

We're back from our two-day vacation from the site with your Day Around The Bay, as SFist Jon continues to struggle with his DSL. --Children meet cows. --After a mysterious price rise last week that was unsupported by the economic fundamentals, gas prices have now dropped again. Did something happen last week? --The club Mingles in Jack London Square is closing down permanently after the death of a pregnant woman in a shooting last......

Exhausted ballots and exhausted bloggers -- in the District 6 race! This week's episode: Everybody Hates RCV. District 6 -- DALY WINS. Check here. Congratulations, Chris! And in other RCV news -- Ed Jew wins. And in obsessive refresh ability -- SFIST WINS!! We got our post up first over everyone else -- up by 3:47 p.m. MUST CREDIT SFIST! Updated numbers are here. Results below. Rob Black got to 40%. We're cranking through the......

SFist Jon's DSL is still screwed up; you're stuck with us and our insistance on using two dashes instead of one to start off our entries. --SFMike from SF Civic Center had a keee-razee day pollwatching on Tuesday. Ha! You gotta read this one. --People voted in cool places. We totally want to move to the precinct that votes at the puppy adoption center. --Cindy Sheehan gets arrested again in DC. --Alix Rosenthal says she......

The suspense is killing us -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Absentees. Okay, time for a new District 6 post! We're going to try putting updates on the top of the post again, as news comes in. --Update -- we're busy at work so no commentary, but here's the latest numbers from sfgov.org. MEMBER, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DIST. 6 VOTE FOR 1 CHRIS DALY . . . . .......

When does the RCV count begin -- in the District 6 election! And as promised earlier, this week's episode is indeed titled: Everybody Hates The Wait. --Man, it sounds like we just missed the Dalys' almost-to-victory speeches at the DNA Lounge last night. Savannah Blackwell (yay! she's writing again!) has the good word. We're trying our best to get YouTube footage of Mrs. Chris Daly telling off "the motherf**kers at the Golden Gate Restaurant Association,"......

There's lots to be said about this election (we won the House!), and lots to be learned about local politics (YouTube -- the wave of the future), and that's for political scientists that are sharper than us to figure out -- but the one totally obvious point that this election's highlighted is that Gavin Newsom can't get his friends elected. Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police......

This is it! Your District 6 election is finally here! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The District 6 Election. That's a picture of Gavin Newsom voting early at City Hall -- and you know, we've heard he lives in District 6 now too. Gosh, who do you think he voted for for supervisor? (Also, he voted against Prop I. He's afraid of Question Time!) That wasn't very nice what Mr. Newsom said about Daly supporters......

It's the last weekend before.... the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Final Push. --Bar crawl with Chris Daly and the League of Pissed Off Voters tonight, on a party bus. Show up at 9 p.m. outside Daly HQ on 16th and Mission to decorate the bus (!!!), and the group leaves around 9:30 for a tour of the best drinking holes in District 6. There'll be some leaflet distribution, a fair......

Awww, cute! Here's a collection of pictures of the candidates posing with children -- from the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Kissing Babies. We don't know who these young moppets are, but look at those big smiles for Rob Black! After the jump: Jimenez's family, Drake's nephew, and Chris and Jack Daly. We couldn't find any pictures of any of the other candidates with kids in tow -- but if you've got......

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. DAMN Choreography objects to an article about them with the title "Tits and Assets." It's their special East Bay politics issue! Political bloggers wreaking havoc in Alameda, that Democrat running against Pombo might actually win, hipsters are voting for Aimee Allison. The EBX recommendations, plus a genius move -- polling people about fake propositions. We liked the school vending machine tax to go to anti-bullying programs, and the......

Everybody hates Chris -- but everyone loves a charticle! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Negatives. So much negative information these days! Does Rob Black really hate unions? Does Chris Daly take dirty money? Does Matt Drake shamelessly pander to baby-lovers? (Congratulations on your new nephew, Matt!) It's just so hard to keep it all straight -- who's saying what about whom now? So we here at SFist have generously put together our Chart Of......

We're not calling this an "Everybody Hates Chris" post only because we're starting to think there are too many posts on the SFist front page that bear that title. This week's episode: Everybody Hates Critical Mass. Flickr user and bike rider DainaBeth sends along her picture of Chris Daly at last week's Halloween Critical Mass ride. Here's the caption to her picture: I actually wasn't sure at first if this was my supervisor Chris......

Again -- Rob Black/Matt Drake fans, if you guys send us your YouTube clips, we'll gladly post 'em -- for the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Heartwarming. We got forwarded this latest YouTube clip of Chris Daly on the campaign trail, by DiggaSlidwell. We'll let Mr./Ms. Slidwell tell it to you in his/her words: I got sick of all the crazy hate mail bad mouthing Chris Daly, so I took my camera......

--Did you fall back? --Old(er) people use the Internet. --Babies eat organic. --Protest against the war yesterday. --Homelessness is a difficult problem. --A debate breaks out at Left In SF about what Rob Black supporters think Daly should have been doing in District 6. As for us, we'd like Chris Daly to personally pee on our block. --M&R relate an incident involving the Gettys' butler, a cup of coffee in the Marina, and overzealous cops......

We figure if we get called anti-Daly by the pro-Dalys, and pro-Daly by the antis, we're probably doing something right -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Question Time -- and not just Proposition I either. See? As promised, if you anti-Dalys send us entertaining pictures or anecdotes, we're happy to run them -- and not just as a caption contest either! ("...and can you believe it? This one's over 21!")......

It's a mishmash of random news items about -- the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Odds And Ends. Okay, most of these items are about Chris Daly -- because none of you Rob Black, Matt Drake, Manuel Jimenez, or anyone else supporters are sending us items. Rob Black hasn't even bothered to update his blog since August 25. Help us help you, Everybody But Chris candidates! --Daly's bought a bunch of ginormous......

SFist Jackson passed this along to us -- the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, in conjunction with the Center for Citizen Media, is sponsoring an Election Day Bloggers' Legal Guide for November 7. If you've got any legal questions about what to expect at your polling place, they're taking questions on their site now, and will publish a FAQ of the questions asked, on a state-by-state basis. So ask them if it's okay to......

We've got a winner in our Second Gavin Couple Naming Contest! We've heard rumors that the are-they-or-aren't-they May-December relationship is back on the aren't, but you know we never let the facts get in the way of poking some fun at our mayor's expense. And the winner is...... (if you haven't seen it in the title of this post): MOUNTSOME! Mountsome wins with 47% of the vote! The naughty Brittanie Mountz Newsom comes in second,......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Save Chris Daly! Rob Black's dirty Swift-Boat campaign tactics. PG&E (sigh). Cover articles: What's happening with Halloween this year? TELL US! Also, where'd our fun gay Halloween go?, and (non-SF) themed costumes. What, no Alix Rosenthal costume? Maybe Steven T. Jones edits the costume section. Sonic Reducer's days behind the counter at Tower. Lit section: books about seedy SF, and Michelle Tea's interview with the editor and publisher of......

As your source for District 6 obsession, we'd be remiss not to inform you of the unofficial bar crawl with Chris Daly planned tonight for bars in the 16th and Mission nexus, as well as Zeitgeist. This is clearly the opportunity to ask Chris all of those questions you've been saving up, such as whether he beat up nerdy kids on the gradeschool blacktop, whether Rob Black's campaign is the work of a demonic......

We're going to make our editor even more unhappy -- by posting about the District 6 election again! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Poll Numbers. Our editor's asked us to tone down the District 6 coverage.... but we just can't stop! The Chron's Matier and Ross today have released numbers purporting to show that Rob Black has a 6-point lead on Chris Daly, with the numbers at 37%-31%. This contrasts with one set of numbers......

Thank you, gentlemen, your time is up! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Debate. It was pretty crowded in the Koret Auditorium for the League of Women Voters District 6 candidates' forum -- even though we were one short of the full eight (Davy Jones was a no-show). The seven candidates were crammed all together at two tables, and due to the tyranny of alphabetical order, Rob Black and Chris Daly were forced to......

The ink's flying -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Op-Eds. So many forums to express District 6 thoughts! The three candidates pictured to your right (Rob Black, Matt Drake, and Chris Daly) all have op-eds running in various local publications -- Rob (.pdf) and Chris in dueling Examiner op-eds and Matt Drake in SF Downtown. What do they have to say? How do they compare? We've done you up one......

It keeps the post office busy -- the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Spending Cap. A few days ago (before the Great Gavin Gel Goohaha), we were minding our own business, trying to find official word on whether Kimberly Guilfoyle had her baby yet, when we got a breathless email in the ol' inbox, in all caps, that said: "ROB BLACK TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT CHRIS DALY'S ILLEGAL CAMPAIGNING. Announcement at......

Only five more weeks to go until the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates An Endorsement. Looks like it's not just Lou Seal giving the flippers-up for District 6 candidate Rob Black! Rob just lined up the first big endorsement of the race, splashed on the front page of Monday's Examiner. Unfortunately, the Examiner doesn't seem to have made its endorsements accessible on its webpage, but we've thoughtfully saved it as a......

We here in the Bay Area may not agree on many things, but the one thing we do agree on is that MUNI sucks. Hell, even the Mayor realized this as he went all Grampa Simpson on us and whined about it. Whether it's litter or bad drivers or super-crowded busses, the week was nothing but one big huge MUNI kvetch. ...

Remember that guy who totally hated on Tristan Bettencourt and posted a web site with all sorts of nasty rumors about him? Well, that's nothing compared to what's been put out on Rob Black, one of the candidates running against Chris Daly in District 6. You may think that Rob comes off as one of those aging hipster types who looks like Ted from "Queer Eye", a nice enough guy with an impressive resume of political involvement, but you would be wrong. See, according to the site, Meet Rob Black, Rob Black is actually some deep-undercover ops guy who single-handedly brought oppression, war, and dictatorships to several third world countries. ...