"Twisting Facts Sideways—700 days a year"
NEWS SWIPES
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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[...] by Paul Potocky’s post over at SF Bay Timeless (or whatever the heck it’s called): Hollywood calls us Frisco!, a very entertaining list of the films which have helped to perpetuate the irritating [...]
Indeed we are SF Bay Timeless. And while I too cringe at the Frisco attribution, I’m ready to take my knocks for bringing on a new diarist calling himself “Frisco Fats.” Fats does assure me, however, that once he drops his targeted 70 lbs. (no small task should he succeed) he intends to change his moniker to “San Francisco Slim.” The moral of the story being, I guess—Frisco=bad fat, San Francisco=good, slim & healthy.