Will sex scandals ever stop?

No. And as long as they continue to occur in San Francisco, the Chronicle will continue to remind us.
In its latest recap, the Chron chronicles San Francisco’s Top Ten Sex Scandals from 1879 to the here and now, proving anew that old sex scandals never die, they just find abbreviated life in media outlets desperate [...]

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Pol Dancing

With his selection of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, Barack Obama has kicked up a few little dust devils within the Republican Party.
If the party leans on Sotomayor too heavily during her confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate, it stands a good chance of alienating the tiny Hispanic vote [...]

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I Pulled a Boo Boob

To err is human. To forgive is divine.
I therefore enter the realm of divinity by forgiving myself for predicting that Donald Trump would remove Miss California, Carrie Prejean, from her position as Miss California USA, based on a picture or two of Carrie’s half a boob that reached the public eye.
Oh, and there was that [...]

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Wish They All Could be California Girls

What’s the big deal with Miss California’s boobs? Everyone seems all fidgety because she posed with a half a boob (no nipple) in a lingerie ad. Now, her position as First Runner Up in the Miss USA contest is at the mercy of Donald Trump, who is supposed to make a final decision on Carrie’s [...]

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Facebook Frenzy

Lately, I’ve been in a Facebook frenzy.  For some reason, I started working a few of those idiotic exercises that remind me of the 2nd Grade, like “What kind of element are you (Krypton, it turns out),” or “First 5 cars you owned.”  On the cars thing, I actually couldn’t remember, so I just named [...]

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We Need a Woman on the Supreme Court

But not the ordinary run of Supreme Court nominees.We need a woman who has never been s judge in any venue, period. Prior experience corrupts the brain.
Taking it a step further, we need a a Justice without a scintilla of legal education or training. The Constitution requires no such education or experience, and it’s time [...]

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I was Rich until My Wife Got Sick

I haven’t been able to post anything lately because my wife has been in and out of the hospital since early April.
First, she was admitted for a sort of combined urinary tract-pneumonia infection.
Then, after leaving the hospital, she spent a couple of days at home before she fell and fractured her hip. The hospital surgeon [...]

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