SF News Dick Cheney Speaks at Noon Today at Palace Hotel Former Vice President Dick Cheney will appear in San Francisco today to speak at the fourth annual CLSA AsiaUSA Forum at The Palace Hotel. The event, according to Politico, "involves more than 200
SF News Matt Gonzalez for VP, Says Nader Whenever a presidential candidate announces his VP choice this early in the game, it's either to try to help him win a state, or to strengthen a weakness. Take, for example, Bill Clinton
misc Bush to California: Choke On It The reason given is that in lieu of the recent energy bill, there's no need to have each state create their own rules, even if their rules are better than the Federal Government's.
Arts & Entertainment Sing-a-long With Dick and Condi As we told you last week, the San Francisco Mime Troupe performed in Dolores Park for the public on the 4th and last weekend. It was the premiere of the group's show "Making
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Reds 6 Giants 3- Giants lost, blah...blah...blah but the big news is that Barry has decided that he won't participate in Monday's Home Run Derby. Bad legs and all that. Now,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today It's the Fourth of July! Streamers! Bunting! Brass bands! And in San Francisco.... the opening of the hotly-anticipated SF Mime Troupe production in Dolores Park! The acidly-political theater group (note: , though it would
misc Call Me One name that has already been bandied about is noted toe-sucker and Fox News suckup Dick Morris. Palfrey dropped his name but Morris denied it, even though he supposedly admitted to it in
Arts & Entertainment Opposite of the New Black Where do we begin? Victoria's plunging neckline that doesn't really plunge into anything? Vanessa's weird headband she ripped off Ashley Olsen and/or Prince at the Superbowl? Victoria's Dick Cheney-esque smirk? Vanessa's creepy
SF News GooTube vs. Viacom the Sequel First Viacom didn't want its stuff on YouTube. Then it did. Now, once again, it doesn't. So some poor schmos at YouTube are looking at missing the Super Bowl as they have to
misc State Supreme Court to Hear Gay Marriage Case How did we get here? Let's go take the Way Back Machine and see. We start in 2004 when Gavin (gaw-- that was one wife and at least three girlfriends ago) decided to
SF News Google in Space! Also as part of the agreement, Google and NASA will be sharing information and knowledge and are even talking of co-habitating. According to a spokesman, all this will "soon allow every American to
misc Irony of Ironies Isn't it ironic? Don't ya think? This, of course, comes from the party that gave us Mark Foley, and the methamphetamine man-massage loving religious leader. The one that's been running against gays and
SF News Voting Stories? But just because we haven't voted doesn't mean you haven't voted yet. So, in the comment section, if you got some interesting story to tell, post away. Got caught in voter fraud? Some
SF News More Spin from Bush After making more flip-flops than an Indonesian child-labor sweatshop, the Environmentalist-in-Chief finally decided to spend his Earth Day Eve and morning at Dick Cheney's favorite disclosed location, Meadowood Resort in St. Helena. Although
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Myth's a Myth. The interior design is stunning: a wide square room with an open kitchen is lined up with bench against the opposite wall, and sleek booth on one side. Behind the booth sits a
SF News Political Junkie: Lucky For Us No Buckshot Was Involved Man, there isn't Bay Area connection to Dick Cheney shooting that 78-year-old guy in the face? We're so jealous of DCist and Austinist right now. Well, we gotta content ourselves instead with reporting
SF News Bush/Cheney Escape Another Close Call So why did Elsbernd push it off to committee, a sure-fire way to delay the sucker and keep the thing from ever being voted upon? Says Elsbernd in Matier & Ross: "I have
SF News SFist Doesn't Watch the State of the Union Which raises the question of what to do? Well, there's always NetFlix, of course, as well as good old TiVo. It's also a good night to go to the movies and while Brokeback
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Bad Reporter As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And
SF News Nancy Pelosi Gets a Lift We San Franciscan's like to think that we come from a brave and hearty stock. Constantly living under the fear of the next Big One, we're the inheritors of a proud tradition of
SF News Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Over here at SFist's fortress of solitude (above Jerry's Tattoo and Java), we've just been informed that "Big" Dick Cheney is currently ensconced at the Mandarin Oriental downtown, and an entire block of
SF News Barbara Boxer Cowboys Up about all of this, but it appears as though those rallies and e-mails to Sen. Barbara Boxer worked. Today, during a joint session of congress to certify the electoral vote count, Boxer, along
SF News Yes, We Had No Banana Far be it from us to post stories making some spurious claim about some noted official and then disappear whenever they try to defend themselves. So when said noted official tries to defend
SF News Debate This We here at SFist were totally going to blog this debate because blogging is, from what we hear, the new black, but since we were also playing the officially sanctioned Wonkette Vice-Presidential Debate
