SF News AP Decides 'Husband' And 'Wife' Only Applies To Straight Folks The Associated Press, whose stylebook is "the journalist's bible" used by writers and abused by bloggers the world over, issued a memo today clarifying when writers should use the terms "Husband" and "Wife"
SF News AP to Open North Korean News Bureau Wow. Um, OK: Associated Press announced today that, in an agreement with the eerie and truthiness-riddled Korea Central News Agency, they will open a news bureau in Pyongyang. Interesting. And... odd. Maybe AP
SF News Breaking News: <i>Gilligan's Island</i>'s Mary-Ann Sentenced for Pot Possession Actress Dawn Wells -- i.e., Mary-Ann from Gilligan's Island -- was busted for smoking the doob, it seems. The Associated Press has the harrowing, mary jane-fueled details: On Oct. 18, Teton County
SF News San Francisco's Tap Water Reigns Surpeme Although last week's test on the American tap water by chemists claims to have detected the sex hormone estradiol -- found such vertebrate animals as birds, reptiles, and fish -- a more recent
SF News The Vatican Revises Thou-Shall-Not List On the environment, both Pope Benedict XVI and the late Pope John Paul II frequently expressed concern about the fate of the Earth. During Benedict's papacy, Vatican engineers have developed plans for some
SF News Sunday's Protest Against Kosovo's Independence A small but vocal amount of the local Serbian community held a minor protest about the United States' recognition of Kosovo as a separate state, going up Market Street on Sunday afternoon; the
misc AP Report: Cosco Busan Pilot on Prescription Drugs During Accident? A lot is going on with the aftermath of our big oil spill. An update is here.
Arts & Entertainment At Long Last Glove Oh this is a smashing idea. Jennifer Gooch's site One Cold Hand reunites missing single gloves with their owners. Yay! Since her site opened in March of this year, her finds have spiked
SF News RIP: Mr. Whipple Chastises His Final Squeezer Born Riccardo DiGuglielmo, Wilson changed his name while working as an actor in efforts to avoid typecasting as an Italian-American. Little did he know that he would be typecast as America's favorite, um,
misc Dear Abby Supports the Gays 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
SF News Republicans Also Want You To Cut Your Hair, Hippie Associated Press' Scott Lindlaw reports that at yesterday's federal building grand opening, as Nancy Pelosi was in the middle of playing the time-honored role of ribbon cutter, "anti-war protestors" audibly chanted such gems
SF News EarthLink and Google Alliance Wins The San Francisco WiFi Race Next up: EarthLink and (less prominently) Google will begin contract negotiations with San Francisco. It's too soon to tell what the end result will be (unless you're Kimo Crossman, who hasn't been that
SF News Deep Throat Revealed No, not that Deep Throat. Or the documentary. Via Chris Lopez, we've learned that Vanity Fair is reporting W. Mark Felt, former FBI second-in-command, revealed himself to be the famous anonymous source for
SF News Mistakes, We've Made A Few Unlike some people, we're willing to own up when we've made a mistake or three. The problem is, we may not even know that we made a mistake. You can imagine that in
SF News 'Tis The Season -- For Sentencing People to Death Nothing the like Jesus' birthday around the corner to get juries in the hangin' mood, apparently. We understand that getting home to your family for the holidays after a long sequestration would be
