Making jokes about the President is pretty easy. It's even easier to make fun of him these days what with his 38% approval rating and the Republicans sudden discovery that he's not wearing any clothes. In fact, it's so easy to do it now that there's an element of kicking a man when he's down to it. Which makes us feel kind of guilty about it. Oh, wait. Check that. You can never make enough fun of the President. This Saturday night is the The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party: An Evening of Political Comedy. The first one was held about this year in an attempt to raise money to defeat him. Obviously, it being the "second annual" means that the first one didn’t succeed. While saying that it's yet one more attempt to send our President back to Crawford might be a joke, the money for the show will go to the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors' (CCCO) "Military Out of Our Schools Program," those people trying to prevent military recruiters out of possibly excercising their freedom of choice and choosing the military. Comedians include Bill Santiago, Diane Amos, Scott Blakeman, Lisa Geduldig, Alana Devich, Ross Turner, and Aundre the Wonderwoman (who according to the press release is an Anti-death penalty advocate by day; comic by night-- those death penalty activists are always a hoot.) ...

Oh, woe is the Giant fan. This week we were taunted at by our resident A's scribe and all we could come up with as a retort was "at least we got a stadium." My, how the mighty have fallen. What else could we come up with? Our DL list could crush your DL list? Our GM has a better mullet? There's only one thing it appears that can save our season: Crazy Crab. What else do we have to look forward too? You've seen the Web site, you've heard the stories, you've bought the baby t's, now rally for the cause. This Saturday before the inevitable botched pitching job against the Cardinals, the Crustacean Liberation Coalition is calling for a rally to help bring back Crazy Crab-- Crustacean Commotion. Join the fun, drink some beer, wear crab hats, and fight injustice. The fun starts at noon in front of Pac Bell SBC Park and afterwards, everyone will continue fight crab discrimination at the Park Bar & Grill. As Triumph once sang, "Fight the good fight every moment/It's your only way."...

Cares is back and more shallow than ever. SFist knows our readers are already super cute. But we'd be remiss if we didn't let you know how to get cuter and help a good cause at the same time. This Saturday Herrero | Martenson DDS will be offering half price ($250) on teeth whitening treatment as part of the 6th Annual Smile for the Cure. Okay, yeah, that's a bit shallow for Cares but......

Crack den. Independent bookstore. Same thing. You're going to drop $200 at either place before you even know it. One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is, afterall, where this SFist goes on Sundays for our European gossip rags, hidden of course behind literary journals). Kepler's, in Menlo Park,......

This Saturday, there will be a big abortion protest taking place in the city in response to it being 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. We know- big yawn. Except it’s not what you think, it’s an anti-abortion rally. At first, when SFist heard about this, we thought it was a joke, you know ironic- kind of like all those Billionaires for Bush protests. But it’s not a joke, it’s real. There will be a......

The Scottish might not have a big holiday in which everyone gets to revel in offensive stereotypes and drink artificially-colored beer, but it's not for want of trying. This Saturday Night is Scotland’s own St. Patrick’s Day- Burns Night, named after favorite son, the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Traditionally, the night calls for the Burns Supper, the reading of some Burns' poetry, and, well, drinking. Heavy drinking. In celebration, the good-ole Edinburgh Castle is hosting......

Quick, name the poet who wrote these verses? "As we know/There are known knowns/There are things we know we know." Or these: "Things will not be necessarily continuous/The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous\ Ought not to be characterized as a pause." John Donne? William Blake? Jewel? Nope, it's the words and wisdom of everyone's favorite Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfield. This Saturday night, the always rocking Noe Valley Ministry has a performance......

This Saturday, SFist was browsing the Sunset Branch library new books section, when we came across Fade to Clear. We were intrigued enough by the jacket copy to check it out, and we read it over a lazy Sunday morning. We really enjoyed this book,the third in a series about fictional San Francisco private detective Allen Choice. It has a nice noir feel, intellectual (but not boring) plotting, and a nice perspective on Korean-Americanism. We especially enjoyed the detail with which the author, Leonard Chang writes about life in the city. It's all too frequent that a novel set in San Francisco has SF native characters doing things like hanging out at Fisherman's Wharf (which neither SFist nor any of our local friends do, unless a craving for dinner in a bucket kicks in). We were thrilled to find ourselves knowing exactly which building, street, or convenience store Chang was refering to, places that show the details of real life in San Francisco....