--Are you into those Iowa Futures Market invisible-hand-of-the-marketplace economic-based ways of predicting political races? Usual Suspects has started one for the SF mayoral race. Gavin Newsom is pegged to win at $36.78. --The ACLU is going to sue a San Jose company for arranging those "rendition" flights for outsourcing torture. --Don Perata and his spendthrift ways win him a Golden Pig! --Midwifery in San Francisco suffers another blow. --Wow, the real estate market must......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

Yesterday, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request on behalf of local students groups at Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz to see just why the Penagon was spying on them. Joining them in the law suit was our very own San Francisco Bay Guardian, going after more dragons to slay besides PG&E and Craig, as well as Quaker organizations. Yeah, Quakers. Why do Quakers hate America? Is it all that pacifism, tolerance, and yummy cereal? ...

Better start walking down Chestnut with your arms defensively crossed, folks -- the SFPD is hot in pursuit of a serial groper in a light-colored SUV. Handsie stopped four women on the street between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. to ask for directions and then started up with the touching. All four women managed to get free. Handsie is a white male, about 160 pounds, and was wearing a white shirt, a blue shirt, a plaid shirt, and a tan jacket. That's a lotta layering there, pal. And speaking of handsies, two Niners season tickets holders, along with the ACLU, have sued the NFL. No, not for the Niners sucking, but because they're tired of being patted down before going into the stadium. The NFL says they put a league-wide requirement for patdowns before games post-9/11. The ACLU previously sued in Tampa Bay and got an injunction on patdowns before Buccaneer games for the rest of this season. ... and let's get into the holiday spirit! A good samaritan in Concord who hastily left his car running on the side of the road as he dashed to help a family trapped in a flipped-over SUV was busy trying to free three children from their seat belts as he saw someone else dash into his truck and drive it away. Everyone's fine, but the samaritan's out a 1989 white Chevy truck with wood paneling on the side, license plate number 3U55070. ...