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It's Got to be the Morning After

Warriors 120 Suns 118- No, Shaq Diesel didn't play, thus depriving ESPN hours of blathering, but he was spied by our overlord Brock at a hotel and was described as "very tall." Monta

Election Season Bumper Sticker Report: Let's Go Crazy

Dear automobile driver/registered Democrat, We heart you. Love, us We found this over at Nature abhors a vacuum, and we couldn't be more tickled. This is usually the kind of image that

Week Around the -Ists

DCist spent the week honoring some local heroes. First and foremost, they honored 75 year-old Mona Shaw, who smashed up a local Comcast cable office with a hammer after she got fed up

What Would You Do with Barry Bonds' Ball?

The dude who plunked down $752,467 to get the home-run ball that is #756 has decided to put it up to an online vote as to what to do with it. If

Week Around the -Ists

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. As LAist melts away in their

Karl Rove's Car (Barely) Vandalized

Karl Rove's (admittedly awesome) Jaguar gets "victimized" with plastic wrap, fake eagles, and "I love Obama" stickers while parked on a private driveway next to the White House's West Wing. Or it's all

It's Got to Be the Morning After

SFist Jon is taking the day off, so in honor of the Giants playing the Washington Nationals, SFist has the pleasure of announcing that White House Spokesperson Tony Snow will be filling in

Feinstein Folds on FISA

The bill passed after some sheninagans by the White House when sixteen Democrats chickened out and voted with the Republicans. Most of them came from supposed Red States who thought that President 25%

Swells by the Numbers

SFist Rita is out of town for work, so we are donning our tiara and gown for this weeks Swells analysis. Tra-la-la! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column:

A Little Piece of the Puzzle

The little part of the story involves the ex-Prosecutor Kevin Ryan and his replacement, Scott Schools. Now Ryan was one of the eight attorneys let go in the purge, although there doesn't seem

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

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

Democracy in Action- Name the New Couple

We thought we had come up with some good names ourselves, but you, you people...we want to party with you (and yes, that somehow makes this the second Stripes reference of the

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Interviews: SF For Democracy

Remember those heady days of 2004, when the Democrats thought they might have had a chance to take back the White House with Howard Dean? Well, we all know how that turned out.

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Reviews <em>9/11: Press for Truth</em>

We all know the anger of extremist Muslim fundamentalists, but what we don't know and what the White House keeps conveniently hidden from the American public is how we let them get so

Who Loves the 90's? The Raiders Do!

Let's go to the rap sheet, shall we? At his first stop in Indianapolis he was let go after making obscene gestures at the coach during a game. At his next stop in

SFist Rants: Our Poor, Poor Favorite Book

Of course, with anything coming out of the White House, we first have to plead skepticism. It would be like this Administration to leak out the names of hefty tomes as a way

Mo' Pelosi

Well, our little congresswoman made a stirring come-from-behind comeback victory yesterday and overtook Cynthia McKinney in Wonkette's "Congressional Catfight." We hope it was our valued readers who helped take the prize for ole'

The Chron's Stomping In Its Air Force Ones

Wow, we're kind of embarrassed to admit that when we first read this article about how "the Chronicle" exposed a major security breach on the President's Air Force One, we automatically assumed it

"The Daily Show" Takes on the Perils of Pelosi

Yes, our beautiful city and it's congressional representative once again made the "Daily Show." Yay! And could we be more provincial? Anyways, the bit was on latest political meme being that despite all

Breaking News Story: Alien Invasion!

Picture this story with the Drudge Report flashing lights, but we have an exclusive, late-breaking and developing story from The Weekly World News: ALIENS ARE COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO! We repeat, ALIENS ARE

SchwarzenWatcher Reads the Gossip Pages

We have the latest and hottest political news today, coming to you from the best place to get the hottest California political news, the gossip pages. Which raises this interesting question: for those

Arts & Entertainment

Ho U

The classes are part of the 4th Annual Sex Worker Film & Arts Fest, Sex Worker, of course, being the nice, politically correct term for a hooker (SFist, being the essence of politically

Enter Congress

Now some of you might be wondering why congress would want to get involved in such a matter. After all, they haven't been able to figure out yet what happened to those WMDs,

SFist Crush: Lizzie Spiers

Okay, so this has nothing to do with San Francisco but everything to do with blogging. One Elizabeth Spiers has, in the last month, done more to lend credibility to the practice of