Cursing can be fun. Liberating, even. In the right hands, it's almost artful. In the wrong hands, well, you have a million bad rap songs. It's all in who says it, we guess. In the hands of uptight comedians, hipsters, or cartoon eight year olds, it's giddy inducing. In other hands, it's only confirmation of our worst suspicions. All of which is why when we heard that the Edinburgh Castle was going to have it's First Annual "Swearing Festival" we knew we had to go. If there was any place that would do cursing right, it would be the Castle as it would be sure to feature lots of literary types, smart hipster types and Scottish types. We love hearing Scottish types curse. How could this event not miss? It did. Unfortunately, while the concept was brilliant, the execution wasn't. ...

Hey, remember when SFist Rita asked for Manuel Jiminez' thoughts regarding The Daly's call for Bush's impeachment at the Board of Supervisors? Well, Manuel went and responded! There's nothing that SFist loves more than people actually paying attention. Left in SF notes that the work at Bernal Park starts tomorrow (and links to a Bernal neighborhood blog we hadn't seen before). Josh Wolf heads to a the federal building for a grand jury appearance......

Saturday: SFist Jackson tipped us off to the Swearing Festival starting at 7 at Edinburgh Castle. 5 hours of vulgar speech-related activity sounds like a party to us! Sunday: It's the Tour of California bike race! No, we're so not riding in it, but we're all set to watch it as it whips past us some time between 10 a.m. and 12:22 p.m. Monday: Yay! Presidents day means no (day job) work for this......