Flamklore

Jun 17

Artist's firm on hook for $2.1 million

A federal appeals court has some dark news for the self-described “Painter of Light,” Thomas Kinkade - it has restored an arbitration panel’s $2.1 million award to two former gallery owners who say…

Jun 12

Comfort Wipe: For When You Just Can't Wipe Yourself Anymore [Toilet Paper]

Do you need help wiping your own behind? Do you just not like touching toilet paper, and want a plastic device to do it for you? It’s a good thing that you live in 21st-century America,…

Keeping promises

No American president has ever been elected on a more progressive agenda for GLBT equality than Barack Obama — but unless that agenda is actually implemented, the victory will be an empty one.

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Jun 11

The View From Your Recession, Ctd

A reader writes:

Your reader is not totally correct about the Metreon in San Francisco. Its downfall is much more the product of long-term bad management than the recession (although of…

Utardation

Ah, Republicans. Why are you so stupid?

Today, Orrin Hatch sent out a press release denouncing Obama’s health care plan.

HATCH AND REPUBLICAN FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IMPLORE OBAMA: NO…

How To Get 63% of Americans to Support Gay Marriage. (Maybe.)

Back when I used to do high school debate, there were all sorts of esoteric arguments related to the notion of positive and negative rights. The distinction, to simplify the matter greatly, is that…

Jun 10

Angels and Demonizing

Over the weekend the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco fired back against me for asking them to pay the city transfer tax the law says they owe to the City and County of San Francisco.

The…

The View From Your Recession

A reader writes:

Just a little over 12 years ago the Metreon movie and shopping complex opened in downtown San Francisco. It was supposed to be the biggest and best high tech upscale shopping…

Jun 8

Board of Supes to Consider Resolution Urging the Release of (Alleged) Cop Killers

According to Peter Jamison at SF Weekly, the SF Board of Supervisors plan to serve up a controversial (and, ultimately, benign) resolution that would ask for charges to be dropped…

Jun 4

Did you use a credit card at a Sports Authority ... [Lawsuits]

Did you use a credit card at a Sports Authority store in California between April 30, 2007 and April 30, 2008? If so, you’re eligible for a class-action settlement. At that time, the store…

May 30