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The Chron's token conservative on tech hegemony
It's always fun when things are so screwy in town that the leading conservative writer at the Chron starts to agree (even just a little) with the crazy commie at this blog.Debra Saunders is unhappy...
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New NIN sounds like old NIN, and it's coming to Outside Lands
They're back and haunted.Admit it, there was a time when a Nine Inch Nails album was the hardest music in your CD collection. You slipped your Downward Spiral disc in to drown out -- or perhaps...
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NSA spying extends to Internet companies, reports say
Silcon Valley.As if a top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand telephone records over to the National Security Agency weren't enough, the UK Guardian is now reporting that the federal...
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Larkin Street Youth Services employees unionize
After a contested organizing effort that raised questions about the tactics and resources being used by management at Larkin Street Youth Services, a nonprofit social service provider funded with...
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Double standard and then some
Who indeed?knowyourmeme"Let's see. I was a reporter for the AP in Washington. I'm a Verizon customer in America. Way to go, govt. You have my phone records covered."Ben Feller, writer, today."For an...
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It's only to keep you safe, why worry?
Indeed, why worry?MadmagazineAs the story of the government data mining Verizon's customers gains (and loses) momentum, the various responses (all predictable) are rolling out. "It's Obama's fault",...
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True tales, Shakespeare, interns, and more: new movies (plus DocFest)!
A vacation ends in mystery in Aussie import 'Wish You Were Here.'Courtesy of Entertainment One Films USThe 12th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival kicked off last night with a screening of Spark:...
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Week 3
Internet "Medal of Honor"Brooke RobertsonWeek three is in the books for JAW at the SFBG. Almost a month here and while I'd like to say this is a fresh and brand new situation, Internet-speaking, it...
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No weekend plans? Let us fill in your dayplanner
Can't go back to work on Monday if you're dead! Endorse truancy at Sat/8's zombie battle.PHOTO VIA HUMANS VS. ZOMBIESGood clean, squeaky, fresh, wholesome fun. That's what you'll be having this...
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Rival condo conversion measures finally up for board vote
Tenants groups and Sup. Chiu, Kim, and Yee announce a condo conversion compromise in April.Rebecca BoweControversial condominium conversion lottery bypass legislation is finally headed for a vote by...
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Getting smogged
Los Angelesgreatbigcanvas.comSpent part of yesterday doing that peculiarly California-ized ritual, the smogging of the vehicle. As it had a bad v-tec solenoid, it had flunked initially and so the...
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Dianne Feinstein fails
You have to have your head deeper in the sand than the worst Republicans not to have noticed that the federal government has been busted spying on all of us. Pretty much every cell phone call you make,...
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Feeling Fillmore: 5 stores that make the strip
We swoon 4 high waters: Brooklyn Circus cuffed varsity stylesPHOTO VIA WWW.THEBKCIRCUS.COMThe Fillmore Street Goodwill, I will tell anyone who listens, is the best in the city. I have a theory about...
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Pride declines to reinstate Manning as grand marshal (UPDATED)
Bradley Manning is currently being tried in a court martial for leaking government documents(Updated below with a response from Manning supporters, who held a press conference yesterday outside Pride...
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A thought on the PRISM program
PRISM explained (sorta)WaPo.comThe huge story of the last week was the UK Guardian's revelations of massive data mining by the US government of Verizon and the outrage in its wake. Naturally, the...
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Solomon: An open letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate...
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Distance and racism
Angrytroubleblog.com Right now, I'm approximately 116 miles from the Mexican border.When I was growing up, I was 1600 miles from the same border. I was in Boston--I had a discussion today with some...
View ArticleThunder from West Portal: Quentin Kopp savages the Warriors' Embarcadero Wall...
(Scroll down to read Kopp's column from the Westside Observer) When then State Sen. Quentin Kopp was appointed to the bench in San Mateo County, some of his fellow judges took him out to lunch. “We...
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The Mission 'douchebags'
Okay, you have to read this. When a 1990s tech-startup guy who admits he was part of the last generation of gentrification is now so fed up with the new arrival of high-paid techies that he's ready to...
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Hot sexy events: Pride-perfect gear
Inadvisable to start your Pride season without a new Hitachi, says GameLink.PHOTO VIA WWW.GAMELINK.COMDeep in the bowels of Stevenson Street, there lies a company that could. Could surf the waves of an...
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