Here's a video posted on YouTube by the San Francisco State College Republicans. Yes, boo, hiss, etc. -- BUT they were trying to co-host a peaceful memorial for 9/11 victims with their democratic counterparts. Extending the olive branch and, according to the speech the guy gives, trying to whitewash this of political partisanship to whatever extent possible. Of course, some protesters showed up, once again proving that there are just too damned many opinions constrained within this predominately two-party system of ours. ...

The graduation ceremony at San Francisco State University was the biggest (and therefore the best?), we've ever seen. Some 3500-odd purple-clad Gators (Gaters?) lunged for their sheepskins a few weeks back. Wow, we attended a lot of graduation ceremonies the past month. Like SFSU, City College, and the Academy of Art in S.F. but also Stanford and Cal. Who spoke at your commencement? Anyway, get on out there, graduates, and rock and roll with your......

If you long for boundary-crossing or brio or fun in country-western music, git along to San Francisco State University the next three Tuesdays (March first, eighth and fifteenth) to celebrate Bob Wills at 100. The inventor of “Western Swing,” Bob Wills combined country music with Nawlins jazz, blues, ragtime and traditional Mexican music....

Police have identified the most recent victim of a hit-and-run on 19th Avenue as Tu-Cuong Tran. Tran, aged 26, was found lying on 19th near Lincoln at around 12:30 this morning. Read the SF Chronicle brief here....