-- Daly v. Newsom on the budget. Good stuff. [The Daly Blog] -- Vodka for everyone! Russian company buys LiveJournal. [The Snitch] -- Friday night is dope night. [BeyondChron] -- Andrew Cohen on the SFPD (one year later.) [InsidetheSFPD] -- Tahoe's isn't easy being green. [Curbed SF] -- How to make a tiny top hat. For your head. No, not that one, perv. [SFBG] -- Why, Tim Goodman has a personal blog now. Who'd a......

-- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? Ugh.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch]...

Man, we were reading the Chron on the plane out of San Francisco on July 4 for vacation, balling our fists in frustration over missing the stories on Ed Jew's "part-time lover" response to the City Attorney's allegations AND the story about Aaron Peskin's zinger to Dianne Feinstein about her strange letter complaining about Chris Daly. No fair! (but thank you, SFist Jer, for covering it for us while we were gone!) Well, even......

We vowed we wouldn't do it, but since we're obsessively hitting refresh on our browser every five minutes anyways, we might as well! We may take off in a bit to hit some of these election parties we've been hearing about, but here's where we are for now. Updates on top, like a mini-blog. 12:10 a.m.: Okay, we're calling it quits for today. The stats are: Daly at 49.66% with 5,471 votes and Black at......

Who's that man -- in the District 6 election? This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Missed Connection. There's something so poignant about Craigslist Missed Connections -- "I saw you on the MUNI. You had a sad smile and a book about Camus. Call me?" So we're happy to say we've managed to make a match between two people trying to find each other! The anti-Chris Daly website The Daly Show (nice title!), which features photographs......

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......

Uh-oh, there's drama between The Daly and The Gavster once again -- GavvyGav brings his veto hammer, but Chris throws the recent reconcilliation speech back at him. Speaking of real estate, an Oakland developer wants to mix light industrial and residential in a new West Oakland construction. Google can't avoid politics anymore, turning away FBI requests for information on the one hand and defending their book search against angry publishers on the other. More......

We've been dying to debut the new name for this column for weeks now -- weeks! Of COURSE SFist will be covering the District 6 race! This week -- Everyone hates the Marina. The Daly-friendly Beyond Chron reports that Small Business Commissioner and ">columnist for the Daly-unfriendly SF Sentinel Jordanna Thigpen (pictured at right) is sending out feelers about possibly running against Old Daddy Thumbkin, claiming that he's not very environmental and too confrontational. C'mon, what about the time Daly snuck Sierra Clubber Adam Werbach onto the PUC? Not environmental: 0! (but confrontational: 1). Thigpen is an attorney and runs Mask Italia on Chestnut Street, and is active in the Marina Merchants Association. She's previously come out against the San Francisco universal health care plans in 1996 (favoring a federal solution), and helped save a movie theater in the Marina by working with Walgreens. Also, she placed 982th in the 2004 Run to the Far Side. (There is too much information available about people on Google). District 6ers, Thigpen'll be on SF/Unscripted (the show that formerly hosted beloved SFist Jackson) this week, if you're looking for your "anybody" in the "anybody but Daly" category. ...

One of the ways bloggers can leverage their collective influence is through a good, old-fashioned pile on. We don't have to necessarily break the story, but if a critical mass of bloggers start addressing it simultaneously, the s**tstorm will finally hit the mainstream. Just ask Dan Rather. The worldwide blogosphere was shocked -- shocked -- at the implications of a recent Chicago Sun-Times article. Turns out that armed with someone's phone number and a......

Well, the buyout offer the Chronicle gave former columnist Ken Garcia must not have been enough to retire on. Either that, or he missed having a public forum to laud Gavvy-Gav and harrass The Daly, and like a champion boxer wanted back into the ring:"This is a great chance for me to write about what I love: San Francisco and the Bay Area and all the politics, personalities and eye-opening exploits that entails," Garcia......

The Daly City vice squad's running sting operations targeting immigrant-owned stores, where sales clerks who don't speak English have been selling beer to underage kids. The Daly City police department is unsympathetic to the clerks' claims (through interpreters) that they don't know how to read the IDs they're produced, saying that the clerks should have been instructed that you can't sell to anyone with the "I'm Not 21" red stripe running down the side of their license. To be fair, the cops had sent all the local stores a notice saying that they were going to be sending underage decoys in to try to buy beer. Weird. A foot-high pile of feathers was found scattered over the block of 2nd Avenue and Clement. Authorities are baffled. They got one of those street sweepers to wet down the feathers so they could sweep 'em up. The other day, Matt Drudge released footage that he claimed was from an Oakland sideshow, where a woman was reputedly beaten to death for talking to the police. The Oakland Tribune has since figured out that the footage is actually from a 2002 DVD called, "World's Wildest Street Fights Vol. 1." The Oakland PD remains interested in hearing if anyone has any information about the footage, but Drudge is now no longer returning phone calls. ...