A woman and a teenage girl were sexually assaulted in two separate incidents inside two Berkeley homes on Thursday morning. First, reported around 2:30 a.m. on the 2100 block of Cedar Street, a teenage girl "woke up with a man straddling her and lifting her shirt." The victim's mother, who was asleep in the same bed, "reported waking up and fighting the suspect until he fled." According to Bay City News / CBS 5, the suspect was described as "a male, 16 to 20 twenty years old, between 5 feet 7 inches and 6 feet tall, and was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt." The second assault, reported a little before 7:30 a.m., happened on the 2600 block of Hillegas Avenue. BCN goes on to report that a "college-aged woman told police she woke up with a man on top of her," who ran off after she fought back. The second suspect has been described as "a black man around 19 to 22 years old, around 5 feet 6 inches tall, and was wearing a gray sweatshirt with no hood and blue jeans." If anyone has any information on either creep, pleas contact Berkeley police at 510-981-5734 or Bay Area Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS. Also, both attackers made their ways inside each home via unlocked doors or windows. more ›

Sad news, nonconsensual bukkake aficionados. In one of the shortest debates to occur in the Oregon House, a specific type of gang initiation was called into question this week. A proposed new law would make it a second-degree sex abuse crime to fling "a dangerous substance at another person" in the state of Oregon. Said substance is semen or other bodily fluids tossed out of sexual desire or otherwise. (Think of that scene in Silence of the Lambs where that loony inmate hisses to Jodie Foster, "I can smell your [flower]," then tosses his juice at her.) more ›

When we last left the Leno vs. Migden contest, there was much gnashing of the teeth over these two progessive titans matching up. As SFist Rita put it, What Would the Progressives Do? Should they side with Leno or with Migden? It's like when two really good friends have a party at the same time and one guy has a keg of Meisterbrau and another of Sierra. You want to drink the Sierra, but if you go to that party, would your other friend get pissed at you? So, to make sure the campaign didn't get too nasty a peacetreaty of such was signed with both Leno and Migden pledging to be all cute and cuddly during the campaign. And so within days, a Migden ally went all NAMBLA on Leno. more ›