SF News Nancy Pelosi Really Wants To Retire, Says Daughter According to daughter (and independent filmmaker) Alexandra Pelosi, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi really wants to retire from Congress, but her biggest donors won't let her. Now, perhaps we should take this with
SF News The Suspected Arizona Gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, Has a YouTube Channel The events today in Arizona were horrific and disturbing to say the least. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims, including federal judge John Roll, and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who
SF News DiFi Among Those Putting Breaks On Obama Health Plan Call it what you will, but hometown gal Nancy Pelosi's push to get the President's health care initiative through Congress before their August recess appears to be failing, and among those stalling it
SF News Anti-Abortion Protester Interrupts Sonia Sotomayor Hearing During opening remarks by Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor this morning, an anti-abortion protester stood up, shouted something about genocide and the unborn, and was
SF News Former <em>Examiner</em> Editor Adriel Hampton Runs for Congress What will journalists do after newspapers finally fold? Many things. Starting their own PR companies will be big. Writing for online internt weblog sites will tempt many. (Most, however, will fail to grasp
SF News House Defeats $700 Billion Bailout Bill, Dow's Drops 777 Points While we convert our money into gold, porn, and cocaine, check out how local California house members voted on the bailout, which was defeated (29 in favor, 24 opposed) today. In favor: Nancy
SF News Breaking News: Letter to Congress Claims Responsibility for Today's New York City Explosion Offices in Capitol Hill received a manila envelope with a letter claiming responsibility for today's bombing of a landmark military recruiting station in Times Square, NYC. Our parent site, Gothamist, tells us that
misc San Francisco Congressman Lantos, RIP Congressman Tom Lantos died this morning from esophageal cancer at the age of 80. He represented most of the Sunset, as well as a big chunk of San Mateo County. He was the
misc Give the Peace Center a Chance Proposition C is a call to "convert" Alcatraz into a "Global Peace Center." The idea being that Alcatraz gives off negative vibes and so should be replaced by an "International Conference Center For
misc Net Neutrality Symposium at USF and on Your PC Come and see NN guru Tim Wu, Art Brodsky, Richard Clarke, Lawrence Spiwak, and a host of others. Why should you care about Network Neutrality? Here's why. Al Gore took the initiative in
misc Fun Filipino Factoid About Frederick N. Funston Dispatches from TJICistan points out a delightful fact about General Frederick N. Funston--the apparently sensitivity-free Medal of Honor recipient known for his manliness in both the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, and
misc Behold: Frustrating Claims of Trent Lott (Sort Of, Maybe, Not Really) Having Homosexual Liaisons After reading this, we were fit to be tied. BigHeadDC claims that recently-retired Trent Lott has a taste for male escorts. Sort of. We think. Coochie-choochie-coo. Who the hell knows. It's a post
misc Wiretapping Immunity (Again) The secret room at AT&T's Folsom Street facility is in the news again. Staffers from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation are in DC this week and next, trying to convince
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Another shooting in District 5. And a man robbed at gunpoint in the Sunset. --Jerry McNerny, the man who unseated Pombo, is having a fun time in Congress. --Yikes! A guy took a
SF News California Bullet Train -- 'Steel Wheels' Only From Here To Disneyland? We mentioned a few weeks ago that the funding for California's oft-proposed bullet train system is suspect. Things are looking up in a way, as the High Speed Rail Authority approved the project's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coffee Follow-Up: Take A Pill, People (Or Not) Hey, folks, your Trimethyldioxypurist is back with a quick follow-up to the review of Meth Coffee we posted yesterday. We saw something related on the wires this morning. We're tempted to just link
Arts & Entertainment MLK Day in S.F.: A Day On, Not A Day Off Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows off her new gavel at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast in San Francisco this morning. This was Pelosi's first time back in her home district after
SF News The Warriors: Making a (home) stand If hoops is a game of streaks, right now the Warriors are Frank the Tank. They're flying so high, they're looking down on the Democrats. They're looking so good, Gavin Newsom is jealous.
SF News Today's the Day Did we mention that we know we're wrong? Nevertheless what happens here is more important because while the possible defeat of George Allen will be a good thing because it'll make us less
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
SF News Pelosi's PageGate Resolution Prohibited from Passing Foley, for those who haven't heard, was forced to resign yesterday when news of his flirtatious and extremely sick IM messages to a 16 year-old male page were made public. Yesterday, as the
SF News Spies Like HP Another thing they tried was sending out e-mails with encrypted software that would track back and report to HP where that e-mail was forwarded. So, they'd send someone a vaguely alluring e-mail and
SF News Pelosi Goes Viral And what will you find there? Oh, just clips of her playing soccer, lip-synching to pop hits, and ranting into a web cam whenever Tim Russert refuses to take her phone call. And
