There’s a new Firefox browser add-on that warns web surfers when they arrive at a site owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., such as Fox News or the New York Post. Can a “Tiger Wife” action figure be far behind?
- State Sen. Mark Leno says he’ll forego running for mayor and focus instead on winning San Francisco’s lone state Senate seat in 2012 after redistricting.
- It’s been two weeks since Casey Anthony has been seen in public and of course cable TV talkers are already treating her like Greta Garbo.
- Chronicle deputy editorial page editor Lois Kazakoff was named “opinion journalist of the year” by the National Conference of Editorial Writers.
In case you wondered, Stanford has eclipsed Yale as the priciest place in the U. S. to go to college, with an estimated “cost of attendance” of $55,918 per year. - For the record, a stench at the state Capitol the other day can’t be blamed on lawmakers. A skunk got in.
- The rest of the economy may be down, but not Mendocino County’s marijuana harvest, apparently. Illegal drug-related property and money seizures equaled $646,000 the first six months of the year, triple that of a year ago.
- Self-booking: A San Jose travel agent who swindled three dozen Vietnamese travelers by taking their money without buying their plane tickets turned himself in.
- True crime: In Novato a car stolen with a giant effigy of Mohandas Gandhi on top was recovered where it had been abandoned about a mile away, with Gandhi intact.
- Chronicle columnist C. W. Nevius on San Francisco’s likely top options for mayor: “Better the Lee you know, than the Yee you don’t, I’d say.”
