February 2011
"Twisting Facts Sideways—700 days a year"
NEWS SWIPES
SAN FRANCISCO — Nob Hill hotels folding their cards amidst economic malaise
THE GEYSERS — Yet another earthquake
SAN FRANCISCO — Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence give female condoms to gay men, enraging ultra-gay cross-dressing Papacy
WASHINGTON — Clarence Thomas won't respond to allegations he's a bought and paid for corporate toady
SAN MATEO — Klepto cat caught cruisin'
BERKELEY — City Council votes to welcome wronged Gitmo inmates; John Yoo expected to gift each with a personalized water board
SAN FRANCISCO — Same Sex couples make Valentine's Day — Right to Marry Day
GLEN ELLEN — Here's why a glen named for Ellen gained renown
SAN FRANCISCO — Archeological Earthquake — "Automatic Human Jukebox" Grimes Poznikov's fountain pen discovered at flea market
SILICON VALLEY — High tech execs jet lagged, brain dead &/or narcoleptic; manage making millions, no matter
SONOMA COUNTY — Hippie icon Lou Gottlieb's Morningstar Ranch on sales block. Son says sacred site status quo unsustainable
SAN FRANCISCO — SFMOMA showcases famed photog & isolated eccentric, Murdering Eadweard Muybridge — Helios, the "Father of Cinema"
OAKLAND — What's new? Feds want pot "farms" gone, haven't a clue of prohibition history
SAN FRANCISCO — Beyond Chron beats up Bay Guardian; progressives punch & pummel
PEBBLE BEACH — Noogies galore! D.A. charges Bill Murray to pro-am victory.
SAN FRANCISCO — SF shames LA in American Idol search
SILICON VALLEY — Wael Ghonim gives Google gigabuck goosebumps' grab for green
VALLEJO — "We're #2!" — Vallejo, Big time "dying city" and "most miserable to live in" community embraces national recognition
SAN FRANCISCO — Candlestick's newly unearthed 130 year old scows deemed too costly to save
NAPA — Newly revived Napa city shakes off frumpy past
SAN FRANCISCO — SF Beer Week—dedicated drunks drink bodacious beers
CONCORD — Round Table seeks square deal in bankruptcy proceedings
NAPA — Napa Pipe — can you say Getty?
SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor Ed Lee gets stuff done now that Gavin's gone
SILICON VALLEY — MegaRich-Meg promises she'll cut her taxes in half and have the middle and lower classes make up the shortfall
NAPA — Curtains for Cabernet? European grapevine moth invades Wine Country
SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Bridge 15 months behind because U.S. no longer smelts or drafts
BERKELEY — Where did free higher education go? UC Regents wants private school fees larded on debt-burdened grads
SILICON VALLEY — Whitman ignores press at "open press" stop
SACRAMENTO — Anti-gay Republican State Senator caught drunk driving with male companion after leaving gay bar
CUPERTINO — Jobs says stockholders don't want to know what environmental damage Apple is doing
BEVERLY HILLS — And we thought Carrie Prejean was nuts. "Miss Beverly Hills" says murdering gays and lesbians is mandated by her Bible
NAPA — America's first wind powered ferry to take wing on the San Francisco Bay
SAN FRANCISCO — Right wing talk show shill gets the corporate boot , runs to "ultra-left" union for help
SONOMA COUNTY — Why the Bohemian Club's mega-wealthy members' plan to cut old growth redwoods is a really bad thing
SAN FRANCISCO — Yoo boo-hoos critics who claim his green-lighting torture constitutes high crimes
U.S.A. — Class Warfare! Top 400 households make a MILLION BUCKS DAILY, but their tax rates drop below six-figure wage earners
SILICON VALLEY — Larry Ellison drops $400 million into winning the America's Cup — a mere 1/67th of his personal worth.
SAN MATEO — Too few boo Yoo at Rotary Club confab
SAN FRANCISCO — Google's Buzz launch doing evil
SACRAMENTO — Anthem Blue Cross gauges policy holders another 39% — proving massive insurance rate hikes, not reform, the only rational route to riches
BERKELEY — U.S. Justice Department backpedals on John Yoo's torture memos. A little torture good for everyone?
CALIFORNIA — Democracy in action? Top ten Californians ponied up more than a quarter billion dollars to have their say
WASHINGTON — Obama doesn't begrudge banksters destroying the U.S. economy, then walking away with millions. "That is part of the free market system."
NEW MEXICO — State House tells banksters to shove-it. $2-5 billion to go into local banks & credit unions
MILL VALLEY — Conservative Groupa-Polooza to be "Largest Gathering of Conservatives in the Bay Area." Four hour tea party expected to attract all four Mill Valley conservatives.
SAN FRANCISCO — Postcard Row house a $4 million steal?
CALIFORNIA — Budget hawk & gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman spending like drunken sailor
SF BAY AREA — Clean green sliced in half, but Bay Area still leads investments
SILICON VALLEY — Next American Economy "stakeholders" laud replacing union of 50 states with New Bohemia
WALL STREET — Bailed-out billionaire banksters dump Obama & Dems for suggesting financial reform. Repugs to wallow in Wall Street's filthy lucre
WALNUT GROVE — Hash house huddle at high noon — one hundred gunslingers howling to pack loaded heat
CALIFORNIA — Will faulty finding knock California High Speed Rail off the tracks?
SF BAY AREA — Old wine rebottled? Comcast limits broadband use, calls de-enhanced service XFINITY
WASHINGTON — Foiled Xmas terrorist plot - or foiled right-wing coup? State Department tells House Committee on Homeland Security that U.S. Intelligence interceded to prevent revocation of bomber's visa.
SILICON VALLEY — Does Steve Jobs require endless war for Apple to survive?
NORTH BAY — SMART ain't BART says Met Transpo Commission. $155 million shortfall could screw Sonoma
MOUNTAIN VIEW — iPad rockets beyond cuneiform tablets, papyrus, town criers and wood pulp into new digital universe of journalism...or, a mere temporal trinket?
HARRIS POLL — News-less newspapers continue to lose readers
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