Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week Peskin introduced a wee bit of legislation that would obliterated said department. Yoinks....

Now that there will be no city sanctioned Halloween debauchery in the Castro, Civic Center, or anywhere else, it'll be exciting to see the police state that's sure to erupt come 10/31. Even though, as Wyatt Buchanan reports in the Chronicle, "officials are still trying to prevent any festivities in the Castro" and that "Bevan Dufty sent a letter to 110 owners of bars, restaurants and stores in the Castro, asking them to close shop......

-- PSA of the day: never forget your BDSM safeword, kids. [Chron] -- Alt-Weekly Death Watch returns. Yikes is right! [AWDW] -- Matthew S. Bajko says the gays and their bills are drawing more GOP votes. We're shocked. Seriously. [BAR] -- Awful landlord hit with awfully big fine. [Examiner] -- Dead body found inside airplane's wheel at SFO. [Chron, KPIX, KGO] -- Wyatt Buchanan’s blow-by-blow recount of Daly/Dufty's near slap-fest. (Our money is on......