I have to give Christwire credit.  Normally, when people who hate gay people open their mouths, the most trenchant remark they make approximates, “Butt sex!  Eww!”  It’s usually Godshit, because paranoia about the national character and the debilitating effects effeminacy will have on the general population fell away after WWII.
Not so much this time.  This [...]

It’s still technically summer until early next week (and in SF today it’s motherfucking hot outside) so there is still ample time for a number of famous people to kick it.  Something was in the air this year, tampering with the law of averages and mowing down one well-known person after another.  You could argue [...]

Cover the mirrors and sit around in sackcloth, because Bea Arthur died yesterday.  I would have blogged about this sooner but I was out of town, getting very, very drunk. I made a sort of punch (which I stole from a friend who made it on Easter) involving vodka, kiwis, lime, mint and cucumbers. [...]

I totally twittered about this yesterday, but it’s gaining traction and I think it’s amazing.  Some thoughts:
The article does not explicitly disavow Rep. Brown’s use of the word Americans, which seems to exclude Asians.  If you’re defining out the model minority (ahem), you’re probably not including a lot of other, perhaps more “controversial” groups.  [...]

Here in Bernal Heights, a high concentration of Latinos and a history of lefty politics can only mean one thing: murals! Naturally, they cluster on the walls of schoolyards and other public areas where children can be exposed to the thriving, pre-literate tradition of pictographic pedagogy. Here is a nice one from some [...]