Is this it for the Zodiac Killer?
Nearly 40 years later, The Chronicle still gets confessions and clues about the Zodiac case. Usually some overworked reporter who might be old enough to remember the actual case (not the movie) will...
View ArticleNo chickens were sacrificed in the creation of this blog post
I still feel a little dirty this Halloween. When a professional Santeria priest in the backstreets of Havana tells you you need some extra aura cleansing, you need to pay attention. Five (maybe six)...
View ArticleRhinos, tigers, and chickens, oh my! SF’s Wild Kingdom. . .
San Francisco – a place where chickens go free, gorillas are aloof, tiger maulings are blithely replaced by tiger promos and some guy, clearly not learning from my past mistakes, tries to scale a black...
View ArticlePlanes crashing? Nah. Here’s your really weird Friday news…
It’s Friday, there’s a plane bobbing in the Hudson River, a new hero is improbably connected to otherwise publicly excoriated commercial airlines and the cold cats are out of the bag. AP reports that...
View ArticleBond’s alleged drug mix – BALCO aside, dude looks like a lady?
If Barry Bonds was a little testy in the locker room during his last years as the really Giant home run king, we now may have a clue as to why. Aside from the juiced up flaxseed oil and chemically...
View ArticleA silver lining to the economic storm? You could have it worse. . .
Life, as we have been leasing it subprime, may still be over. If you just look at cable news, the economic word is rat-a-tat awful today. “Isn’t this the worst we’ve seen things in 30 years?” asks the...
View ArticleRampant groping and wife-beating? It ain’t the “fairer” sex…
I’m hardly an expert on women, though I’ve married several. In this lull between Valentine’s and Mother’s Days (Octo-Mom and her $1 million porn offer or not) it seems a tribute is in order. Even to...
View ArticleIt’s not Back to the Future — It’s the news.
I saw the lame remake of “The Day The Earth Stood Still” on a plane last week but it didn’t strike me until today that our globe is actually spinning backwards. As of now, we’re somewhere back in the...
View ArticleAll work, no play makes us all dull: Who will replace Jack as THE bad boy?
I’m thrilled to see they cut some slack for that criminal kid who brought the camping utensil to school. He got off with time served. Maybe next year, when he’s seven, he’ll understand the rules...
View ArticleEye on the Tiger. OR: Will the real Phil Bronstein please stand up?
Wait, where was I and when? There’s a Tiger Woods lesson in here somewhere. I had a great time at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington the other night. Or I might have, if I’d been there. But, wait,...
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