Everybody’s Debating the Obama Nobel

But all I can think about is this:

Reason No. 47 Muni Sucks (Catfight)

Sad Men

How Cool is This?

CUT THE PRESIDENT SOME SLACK

For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn

Police are trying to track down the psycho parents of a toddler who was ABANDONED in a stroller on an UES sidewalk after a fight. The only shred of evidence is a receipt for baby shoes (from H&M), never worn, which has since led to the arrest of the baby’s father for reckless endangerment of a child. Bet Hemingway never thought about that.

Another Reason I’m Glad the NYT is Killing the Chron

When THIS woke me from my slumber early Saturday morning, the first place I  turned to find out what it was was SF Gate.

That’s the last time I fucking do that. The level of incompetence at our local hometown paper has reached new lows. Lows you never thought you’d see, living in one of the most expensive, “cultured” and “European” cities in the Union.  San Francisco deserves a better paper than the Chronicle, even if that paper is just a local insert of the New York Times.

Fin

Must See: Don’t-Stop-Non-Stop Gogol Bordello

Dov Charney Cries Over Lost Workers

Although I am crying as I write you this letter, I am confident that immigration reform will be achieved in the near future – Dov Charney

For once, Dov Charney is not being sarcastic, or self-referentially ironic, or just shitting you when he says he’s crying, fucking crying over the 1500 workers his Downtown LA factory will shed this fall after it was discovered they didn’t have the documentation to work in the States.

I’m not being sarcastic either. It’s a sad, sad day for retail when Old Navy can employ indigent Indonesian children to sew their Plus-Size line and American Apparel can’t hire hardworking adults from Pico Street to sew zebra-print thongs for the perilously thin. I AM BEING COMPLETELY SERIOUS.  IT’S SAD.

To emphasize the point, Charney penned a letter to his followers out there in Internetland, describing his grandparents difficult journey to the New World and their pride in seeing the company they helped him form.

It is my belief that immigrants bring prosperity to any economy. They become motivated workers, and they sometimes become motivated business owners like me. They bring fresh ideas, optimism, and passion to any economy and they help contribute to a prosperous future.

Unfortunately, Charney writes, Obama isn’t getting immigration reform done (although maybe he should be kissing the man’s feet for writing him a letter instead of rounding up his workers and summarily deporting them ala AgroProcessors). Meanwhile, we have this shit clouding up the conversation. If you think healthcare is acrimonious, don’t stick around for immigration.

UPDATE: Crown Vic Goes Boom

So…we still don’t know what caused last week’s crazzzzy taxi fire, but we do know a little bit more about the Ford Crown Victoria.  Gothamist reports that more than 20 cops have died in Crown Vic related fires–Ford’s crown jewel of a sedan comprises the majority of taxi and police fleets, and they have a penchant for blowing up (at least when you hit them from behind). Yet, as I pointed out in an earlier post, virtually none of the recent explosions resulted from a crash (ex. 2006).    Here’s a complete list of problems with the CV, courtesy of The Center for Auto Safety. Nerd much?

Small Mystery…not solved