The alleged revelation, first reported by the New York Daily News over the weekend, that Melky Cabrera's associates had created a fake website for a fake supplement in an attempt to help him maneuver around a 50-game steroid suspension has jolted San Francisco's sports media into anger.
Earlier this summer we informed readers that, contrary to its reputation for being overly sensitive in that ACLU-kind-of-way, San Francisco doesn't care if you spank your kid.
And guess what? Two months later, people here still don't care.
A San Francisco jury acquitted another father of charges that he abused his 11-year-old daughter when he hit her with a belt as punishment for being a serial thief. The jury deliberated for two hours before it concluded that Chaya Chhoeurm, 30, exercised reasonable discipline after the girl was caught repeatedly stealing from her teacher.
Chhoeurm, a carpenter with sole custody of his three kids, admitted to the jury that he spanked his daughter with a belt, but only because he was desperate to teach her a lesson about stealing. He claimed he never meant to injure his daughter, who was left with bruises on her right side.
After an all-day meeting last Thursday, the Ethics Commission decided in a 4-1 vote that the sheriff committed official misconduct when he bruised his wife's arm during a domestic dispute last New Year's Eve. Although the commission could not agree on a formal recommendation to the Board of Supervisors pertaining to his fate as the sheriff, Mirkarimi doesn't have much reason to be optimistic.
The Board of Supervisors will ultimately decide whether or not to fire Mirkarimi as sheriff. Until then, he remains suspended without pay.
So, why would Mirkarimi keep fighting this on, especially after his own attorney, Shepard Kopp called this whole thing an "unnecessarily protracted dog-and-pony show?"
Last week, a San Francisco Chronicle correction regarding an erroneous report of the brandishing of a dildo-crucifix in a local Catholic church made its play for the The Corrections Hall of Fame.
The item in question:
C.W. Nevius' column about Most Holy Redeemer banning drag queen performers incorrectly stated that entertainer Peaches Christ appeared at an event at the church's hall with a dildo shaped like a crucifix. He did not appear at the event, nor does he use the prop.
If anyone in San Francisco tells you that Oakland sucks, obviously they're lying.
Honestly, we were kinda surprised to read in our sister blog today, the Exhibitionist, that folks in San Francisco tend to stretch the truth far more than their counterparts across the bay in Oakland.
Honest Tea ran this unscientific experiment where, in 30 cities across the nation, the company set-up unmanned stands stocked with bottles, teas, and jars asking for people to donate $1 for every bottle they took. The payment was based on the honor system, but what the consumers didn't know is that a hidden camera was keeping record of how many bottles they took and how many they actually paid for.
Oakland came in second place, while San Francisco had one too many fibbers, putting the city in in fourth place, according to the National Honesty Index.
Now for the burning question: What kind of people tended to lie?
Adam Tod Brown will tell you. The Los Angeles transplant got a real taste of San Francisco when he lived here for a short three months. He published a list on the humor site Cracked.com ticking off all the horrible awesomness he noticed while living in the City by the Bay.
Here's what he came up with:
San Francisco Is Nasty. In what other city has human feces amassed so much in local escalators that they were unusable for anything other than taking a crap? Okay, we get it -- that's gross, but you can clean that shit up in a day or two, as opposed to the smog in Los Angeles; that toxic stuff goes straight to your bloodstream.
A 65-year-old man was killed early Saturday morning after he collided with another vehicle in the city's Nob Hill neighborhood.
At about 7:50 a.m., Lionel Parisi was driving along Post Street when a driver on Van Ness ran a red light and hit Parisi on his motorcycle.
Parisi was pronounced dead at the scene, said Officer Albie Esparza.
"It was a tragic accident, honestly," Esparza said.
As we witnessed with the Chick-fil-A gay marriage debate, nothing gets Americans off their asses to protest, vote, or generally fulfill their civic duties like the promise of food.
And seeing how Obama needs all the help he can get now, the Hungry for Obama movement has reactivated in San Francisco. The experimental fundraising project was started in San Francisco during Obama's 2008 bid for the White House; at that time, the dinner parties helped kick in $50,000 in San Francisco.
Now Hungry for Obama founders and San Francisco housemates Louis Eisenberg and Brad Wolfe are hoping to raise significantly more money via viral dinner parties this fall.
Here's how it works:
While you all have been lazily basking in the sun this summer, this 8-year-old girl has been working her tail off to change the world, one lemon at a time.
In the Northern California city of Fairfax, Vivienne Harr has spent the last 57 days of her summer vacation turning lemons into lemonade -- literally. She's been selling the sweet, refreshing beverage with plans to use all her proceeds to fight human trafficking across the world.
As of Saturday afternoon, the young entrepreneur had already earned more than $30,000 at her makeshift business, which she appropriately dubbed Make-A-Stand! Lemonade: The Sweet Taste of Freedom.
She's plans to keep selling lemonade until she raises $150,000, using only fair-trade lemons, of course.
"And it's really hard to find fair-trade things. I
mean, we're buying fair-trade things because, I mean, you can't be
freeing slaves and having them to work harder for the cause that you're
trying to do to help them be free," Harr told reporters.
An 18-year-old man remains in the hospital after he was shot in broad daylight on Saturday while walking through the Bayview.
About 3:43 p.m., two men attacked the teen and shot him twice as he was standing on the corner of Third and Gillman streets, police said. After the shooting, an anonymous witness saw both suspects running into a house on the 1000 block of Fitzgerald.
Police surrounded the house, as they talked to a resident living in the home. They finally got consent to come inside, where, sure enough, they found the two men who matched the description of the shooters, police said.
