Tinkering with and/or eliminating rent control in California...

Last week's winner, the deceptive SF Weekly. Letters abound, either outraged by the fake Barry Bonds story or entertained by the elk. Why don't the negative letters have the names of the authors? Are you now questioning all the journalism you read in the Weekly now, or did you just think it was a good joke? Matt Smith says Gavin Newsom is supporting a cult. No, not the cult of Gavin, though no doubt Gavin......

--This is an awesome picture from the Pride celebration yesterday. [37°C (we learned how to make the degree sign! Thanks, commenters!), from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Left in SF's Robert Haaland had fun as one of the grand marshals for Pride -- even though he didn't actually ride in his own car!. [two posts on Left in SF.] --People who read local real estate blog Socketsite are rich. [Socketsite.] --Remember the guy who drove......

--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!) --Another reader, Erin, was accosted by Recall Jake McGoldrick people, did some research, and found out the consultant group doing their outreach is based out of the Mission. --This link's for you, commenter Tin Man! (You know Swells By The Numbers always kicks off Sunday mornings!)......

SFist Jon's away this week, so you're stuck with the former editor on your Day Around The Bay. --Robert Haaland comes clean about his vacation during the District 6 race. --Critical Mass in Walnut Creek last Friday didn't go so well. --In some kind of strange shout-out to the golden spike that connected the transcontinental railroad, a bunch of people in Palo Alto signed a wireless Internet transmitter that had been painted gold. Huh.......

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 . . . . .......

Ever-vigilant SFist reader Robert Haaland tipped us off today to KGO talker Pete Wilson (not to be confused with the former governor, or the Canadian pro wrestler) pointing some love-related criticism at local gaydad Bevan Dufty and lesbimom Rebecca Goldfader. According to Pete (the radio guy, not the former Treasurer of the Kensington and Chelsea Conservative Association), Bevan and Rebecca have done their new son [UPDATE: and by "son," of course," what we really......

And the second in our school board interviews -- Kim Knox! Knox is currently a member of the local SF Green Party County Council, and blogs with Robert Haaland and Sasha Magee at Left in SF. Just to remind you guys, everyone gets the same questions and we run the answers unedited! The floor is yours, Kim! Introduce yourself, and tell us what you currently do. My name is Kim Knox, an education and environmental......

Last week's winner, the Guardian (which now has no pictures of the current cover on its site for us to use to illustrate this post -- this is a picture from Sonic Reducer): How Tim Redmond set up wifi in his home. Robert Haaland, subject of the latest poorly-scanning Joe O'Donoghue poem, pens an op-ed on the Gap. Background on the (now-averted) school strike. Doesn't Janet Reilly kind of look like Tori Spelling? [picture is......

Pillow Fight February 14th!!! Who wants to bet that Frank Chu just shows up? Banjo-pickin' blogger Jordan Klein will be appearing tomorrow and next Friday as part of the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival. And congrats to Irene McGee for landing her show "NoOne's Listening" on 106.9 FM. We love photography, we love parliamentary procedure -- Robert Haaland shot the recent Budget Comittee meeting on health care coverage. The Schadelmann covers Janet Reilly's......

We'll start with the 2005 year-in-reviews. Robert Haaland says 2005 "was a great year to be a queer union organizer." Om Malik points out that the number of broadband connections grew 35% last year. And Jenguin literally looks back at 2005 with a selection of her photos. As for the actual festivities, Beth Spotswood dons a cocktail dress and braves a fancy party. Eric Meyerson laments the stormy state of affairs which greeted 2006.......

While cruising our feeds for sexy items for our other gig, we stumbled across this little tryst in the blogosphere's bushes [NSFW]:I was scheduled to judge a "Halloween Underwear Contest", but the club owner gave the promoter, Sean Masters, the green light to let the party get as risque as he wanted...The party lasted till 3 am with reports of a former candidate for San Francisco Supervisor naked on the stairway and full on......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. The saga continues! Robert Haaland snipes in the letters column about Matt Gonzalez's snipe in the letters column the week before, about an op-ed by Harvey Milk Club prez Greg Shaw that ran two weeks back. Plus, the world's most excellent article about infighting in the San Francisco left -- someone, please option this for TV! It's totally next season's Lost! They could call it Left! This week's op-ed is by an activist in the leather community about joining the SF People's Organization; we look forward to next week's angry response in the letters to the editor! It doesn't really matter what else is in the paper (but, just so you know, the cover article is about a Russian guy getting deported under bad circumstances, represented by fresh-faced attorney Rocky Tsai.) The Weekly: Matt Smith on bikes. Dog Bites says the SFIFF is badly run, and Ray Ratto uses the prefix "crypto" too often. Cover article: Ostensibly about a bad-boy photographer, but okay, okay, we only looked at the pictures of naked people, is that so wrong? Icelandic chanteuse Emiliana Torrini. (Why isn't her last name something "-sdottir"?) And Savage Love: foot fetishist, panty fetishist, and STDs. The EBX and the weekly of the week, beyond the expandotron. ...

Now, SFist and your Political Junkie are not really statisticians, but the preliminary data coming in from the RCV reports compiled by the Center for Voting and Democracy yield some pretty interesting results, as reported by the Examiner's Adriel Hampton. ...