Notes & Errata
Every Wednesday and Friday, Mark Morford's deeply skewed,
raw n' lubricious Notes & Errata column on SFGate.com brings potent
doses of political satire, cultural insight and wicked humor all
wrapped in a sexed-up package of delirious wordplay specifically
designed to kick-start your day and titillate your id, all while
inducing moderately painful convulsions in neo-conservatives and
the religious Right. Not suitable for children, members of the
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How to regret ever having children
It was a time, wasn't it? Back when you could only walk about 10 feet with a telephone, cars the size of Buicks got five miles to the gallon and the sun itself wasn't yet planning the certain doom of the entire planet? Those days, when you were a kid,...
Buick - General Motors - Technology - Energy - United States
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
America out of Iraq now! Oh wait
Calmly, quietly, with little fanfare or outsized media attention, after more than seven years and thousands of soldiers dead, hundreds of billions of dollars wasted in one of the ugliest and most unnecessary military operations in all of American history, the...
Iraq - United States - Military operation - Middle East - Warfare and Conflict
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
The glorious myth of "female Viagra"
This much we know for sure: You do not touch the third rail. You do not betray your closest friends. You do not eat the fuzzy part of the cheese. You do not rise up from the watery depths too rapidly, lest you go quickly insane. You do not drink five...
Fuzzy - Artificial Intelligence - Cheese - Food - Shopping
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
The last tuna nigiri on Earth
I call it a "Republican moment," one of those surreal and disturbing thoughts that sneaks into my soul every now and then like an unwelcome but insistent visitor, a nasty little thought made of equal parts greed and unchecked entitlement, all overlaced with a...
Home - Cooking - Tuna - Sushi - Fish and Seafood
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
Your momma sucks iPad
So there I was, giving my wonderful but happily technologically unconcerned septuagenarian mother her 147th semi-repeated lesson on how to do various relatively simple tasks on her beloved MacBook, because as default Apple tech support for my whole family,...
Apple - IPad - Technical support - Product Support - Companies
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
Thank you very much, British Petrol
Please sit down. Take a deep breath. I am going to ask you to recall something very traumatic and painful, to take a moment and remember exactly how things were not all that long ago, how pathetic and lost it all seemed, for nearly a decade, one of the worst...
United States - Politics - Gasoline - Health - Iran
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
Mel Gibson's 10 tips for sexist monsters
A second audiotape has emerged in which Mel Gibson allegedly heaps disgusting verbal abuse and threats on the ex-girlfriend who is the mother of his baby daughter. --CNN Many have asked, how does Mel do it? What does...
Mel Gibson - Arts - Literature - Cyberpunk - Authors
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
The great Dick Cheney empathy test
Former Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has undergone surgery to install a small pump to help his heart work, as the 69-year-old enters a new phase of what he called "increasing congestive heart failure." -- Associated Press
Dick Cheney - Heart failure - Surgery - Health - Conditions and Diseases
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
What to do when it all goes right
Tragedies come in swarms. Evil comes in mobs. Piles of bilious bad news and nefarious negativity hit the fan, spray all over the walls of your exhausted perspective, befoul your entire week. You know how it is. Far rarer: those instances when genuinely...
Games - Video Games - Subcultures - Anti Social - Evil Geniuses
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
How to properly mount your deity
The 5,000-year-old god arrived in an enormous, heavy-duty cardboard box -- as gods are wont to do -- nearly four feet high and two feet deep, weighing nearly 100 pounds, packed like an incandescent rock in dense industrial Styrofoam, because that's just the...
Foot - Rock music - Business - Recreation - United States
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
10 amazing truths you already suspected / Volume V! San Francisco brains, gay disco priests, Wikileak sighs
(Previously: Volume I | Volume II | Volume III | Volume IV) Did you already know? I bet you already knew. Or at the very least, had a sneaking suspicion. Here we go... 1) I know what you're thinking: In these times of acrimony and divisiveness,...
Disco - Wikileak - United States - Gay - Gay Lesbian and Bisexual
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
92,000 pages of awesome misery
Great news! I have now read and analyzed every single one* of the 92,000 highly classified, top-secret documents recently uncovered in the WikiLeaks.org mega-saga military scandal, the very ones being fretted over by President Obama, the Defense Department...
Wikileaks - United States - United States Department of Defense - Classified information - Military
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
Oh my God you are so missing out
It slaps me particularly hard when I peruse the local foodie blogs, reading about the latest and greatest San Francisco bars and cafes, boutique coffee joints and tasty underground lairs, gourmet pig butchering classes and DIY absinthe workshops, any of a...
San Francisco - Coffee - Do it yourself - United States - Metro Areas
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
Gay marriage makes the world shrug
Argentina, at last check, is not yet writhing in flames. Canada, as far as I can see from my window, is still right up there, stoic and mild, smelling of pine trees and bitumen, watching lots of hockey, shooting guns, being Canadian. The Netherlands? Why,...
Argentina - Canada - Same-sex marriage - Netherlands - Gay Lesbian and Bisexual
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
The world's most perfect product
Recently over in the sweltering, surreal wasteland that is Las Vegas did I participate in a curious and fascinating event, one that did not at all involve strippers, donkeys or hallucinogenic unicorns on the moon. Well, mostly. The gathering was...
Las Vegas - United States - Nevada - Business - Relationships
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
Thank God global warming is a hoax
I mean, right? You know? Because gosh Jesus in angry apocalyptic heaven, wouldn't it be just terrible if it were all true? Wouldn't it be horrible if all this stunning, insanely mounting, irrefutable evidence -- death, floods, fires, heat waves, the...
Global warming - Environment - Jesus - Opposing Views - Climate change
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
19 reasons why God torched Jesus
Charred remnants remained this morning of the large Jesus statue iconic to Interstate 75 that was destroyed following an apparent lightning strike during a thunderstorm late Monday night. -- Dayton Daily News Why would...
Jesus - Lightning - Christianity - Religion and Spirituality - Dayton Daily News
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
The rise of hugely insufferable women
Not all grown men are suave, sexy, progressive George Clooney/Viggo Mortensen/Colin Farrell lookalikes with sharp blue eyes, stubbly outgrowths and abs like World Cup forwards, all hearts of gold, full heads of hair and perfectly sculpted genitalia custom...
World Cup - Sport - Soccer - Competitions - Gold
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
BP welcomes you to the apocalypse
Please do not worry. Please do not fret about that one thing you always fret about, or that other thing, or even that third thing that might have something to do with erupting oil, dead pelicans and that sickening feeling in your gut that Something is Very...
BP - Business - Energy - Oil and Gas - Oil spill
Categories: Ext Blogs - Social / Political
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