Even more pressure to stop screwing around and settle down, this time from advice columnist Jeanne Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, aaka Dear Abby. "I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em," the syndicated advice columnist told The Associated Press. "That is the highest form of commitment, for heaven's sake." Pft.......

Thanks to the extensive background checks we perform on our contributors, mostly by reading their blogs or hunting them down on Google (we have your IPs!), we sometimes find tidbits that are, shall we say, amusing. And they're rarely what we're looking for. So thanks to extensive researches on a certain SFist that may or may not have been quoted in the Weekly, we stumbled upon WULAD. Transylvanian count with no knowledge of lower case?......

California let you hump dead folks until just recently. Who knew?...

While the New Yorkers and the nation are gearing up for the Repbulican National Convention in New York City this weekend, protesters are gearing up for what is likely going to be the largest public demonstration in a generation. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, will be in the street speaking out against what many feel is a dishonest if not outright corrupt administration - including a sizeable contingent from the Bay Area. For those......