misc Pelosi Says Voters, Not Superdelegates, Should Decide Whether you're a pro-Obama gloater or you live in pro-Hillary Delegate Hub fantasyland, the next few weeks should be interesting. News about City College dedication after the jump.
misc Tom Lantos Stepping Down Lantos, who turns 80 this year, is a Holocaust survivor, chairs the House Committee on Foreign Relations (that's gotta be an interesting gig), recently attacked Yahoo for releasing user names to China, and
misc Anti-Gay Group to Exhibit Their Folsom Street Fair Doc/Repressed Desires for National Press Club O! What we wouldn't give to attend this press screening in Washington DC tomorrow! DCist has the pleasure of reporting on the anti-invert, pro-missionary sex group called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH)
SF News Day Around the Bay -- And then Nancy was all, "Like, what the hell, you guys?" [SF Examiner] -- The Central Subway Project. [Transbay Blog] -- Now you don't have to leave your bedroom to travel. Ever
SF News Dianne Feinstein Fit To Be Tied Over Oil Spill Well spun, Dianne. Looking to use the oil spill to get some much needed face time -- perfect for balancing out other less savory images of the Senator -- Dianne Feinstein flew to
SF News Umbrage Alert! Umbrage Alert! Last weekend, while conducting mass, the Archbishop was giving communion when up came two people "wearing bizarre makeup and costumes, including one dressed in a parody of a nun's habit." Hmm…couldn’t
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.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Code Pink vs. the S.F. Federal Building The whole affair was very mellow (surprisingly?) with no assaults from any pie man or woman. Of course the Speaker has the right to choose with whom she meets and the protesters have
SF News Pelosi V. Sheehan Someone else viewed as unbeatable has a hail-Mary opponent from the progressive left -- and we're not just talking about Gavin Newsom and Chris Daly! That's right -- the stridently anti-war soldier's mom
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 And We're Off (Sheehan Runs Against Pelosi) Let the vanity runs for offices begin: Tenacious Texas trespasser and brilliant anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan just promised to maybe, possibly, perhaps make a run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if our current
SF News Day Around The Bay --We're up to 130 Galaxies now. [picture from the Fillmore Jazz Fest this weekend by megac0rp, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Huge fire on University Avenue in Palo Alto; officials suspect arson. [Merc
SF News Chimpanzees For Peace! We don't even know where to start with this news item -- we had to read the article like three times before we figured it out. Who has a pro-war protest in San
SF News Speaker Pelosi on Gas Prices: Talking the Talk (Speaking the Speak?) Nancy Pelosi is sticking up for her constituents, amidst all the recent news that San Francisco has the highest gas prices in the nation. She says that she's trying to make July 4th
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Fog City Mavericks</i> -- Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Sunday night, the SF International screened the world premiere of the film Fog City Mavericks at the Castro Theater. There were shades of Sundance as many of the films featured filmmakers and actors,
Arts & Entertainment Eric McCormack Sings! Alas, Drew reports that scheduled guest Annette Bening didn't make it, but a source who was there tells us that Nancy Pelosi did. Pelosi missed the performances, but was surrounded by an entourage
SF News The T-Third S-Staggers to L-Life This is the first official week of service on the T line. And it's not all roses and rainbows -- this weekend saw delays, bunching, and nice long waits. At one point, the
SF News Ralph Nader Pours on the Haterade --> Ralph Nader is in town this week to promote his new book, The Seventeen Traditions. He did an interview with KGO radio criticizing Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and 2008 Presidential Candidate
SF News She's Leaving, On a Jet Plane, Of course, there's much more to the story, mainly that a lot of it, if not all of it, isn't true. It is true Nancy gets to fly a plane back east but
SF News Today's Installment of <em>As the Gav Turns</em> ANYWAYS, let's take a look at all the big picture stuff out there, starting with the rumor that DiFi wanted Gavin to resign. This morning, the rumor was completly denied by DiFi's people.
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
SF News Pelosi Strikes Back What seems to be going on is a case of "I Dare You." The Democrats are making noises of fighting the new policy and the White House is saying we dare you, and
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
