The San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing occurred on February 16, 1970, when a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the San Francisco Police Department's Golden Gate Park station. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Investigators in the early '7...

Our digest and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Charlie goes with a Dem Justice ... wingers furious "Crist made a Central Florida circuit judge the Florida Supreme Court's fourth-ever black justice on Wednesday, disappointing conservatives seeking to tilt th...

Having a solid credit score has been important for quite a while now, but it’s actually becoming more important these days as lending tightens up. There’s a reason that the Fair Isaac Corporation — the organization that calculates the credit score that most major lenders rely on — ha...

1) NOT KISSING FIRST. Avoiding her lips and diving straight for the erogenous zones makes her feel like you’re paying by the hour and trying to get your money’s worth by cutting out nonessentials. A proper passionate kiss is the ultimate form of foreplay. 2) BLOWING TOO HARD IN HER EAR. ...

Across Africa, a war is being waged on women - but we are refusing to hear the screams. Over the past fortnight, I have travelled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women at the beginning of their lives, and at the end. As girls, they face having their genitalia slice...

No matter what standard one might use to measure the extent of the current financial crisis, all the results confirm what the average consumer has known for a long time -- we are in hard times and they are getting more difficult. An article in The Economist insists that "the integration of the ...

We are now a second Sunday into Lent, a time by which great masses of faithful Catholic and other Christian observers should be seriously depressing the revenues of all the supermarkets and mall outlets, while the money they've saved piles up in the coffers of various charitable institutions. This a...

Anybody read Franklin W. Dixon? When I was a kid I started reading the damned Hardy Boys. I loved old Frank and Joe. I owned every Hardy Boys book in the series…well at the time there were only 58 titles plus the Detective Handbook. Due to money and contracts and “business,� the series was exp...

A blood oath isn't good enough for a California appeals court. The 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana agreed with a lower court when it ruled a contract written in blood between two Korean businessmen is unenforceable. Jinsoo Kim and his friend Stephen Son were drinking at a sushi restaurant ...

MARCH 12, 2009 Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. ———————————————————————- FIFTY DAYS INTO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION Consider one little factoid: H...