We're doomed ... then again, maybe not.At some point the San Francisco Chronicle's home page (http://www.sfgate.com/) will figure that one out, but right at this moment it looks like they're hedging their bets. Their top headline says a tsunami may be bearing down on the West Coast, but another headline just below it says there's nothing to worry about.Personally, I'm going to play it safe and stay inland. Read Full Story

Check back on TWGB in a couple of weeks to see if I'm still alive and kicking because I'm pretty sure I've been expose to the swine flu.I was actually feeling terrible before I was exposed to the latest, greatest doomsday disease but today I'm worse than ever. I'm sore, totally fatigued, my eyes hurt, my throat is sore, I sound terrible and my nose can't decide if it wants to be totally stuffed up or runny.Who knows, maybe it's ebola.  I knew reading "The Hot Zone" would make me par... Read Full Story

By now it's painfully clear from all the details coming out of the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping that our law enforcement system is utterly, inexcusably broken and pathetically incapable of policing known sex offenders. Convicted sexual predator Phillip Garrido was inexplicably cut loose from a 50 year prison sentence and then breezed through years of incompetent parole followups and a police visit, on his way to 18 years of raping and torturing Dugard before finally being caught last week thanks... Read Full Story

OK, let's get this out of the way ASAP: I don't really care for cops.Never have.Maybe it's just an immature disdain for some authority figures but I've never been a big fan of law enforcement.Even with that in mind the Jaycee Lee Dugard story becomes more infuriating by the minute.More details continue to emerge out about what a sick, twisted bastard Phillip Garrido is and how his wife is just as despicable for her role in the kidnapping.But the thing I can't get over is how criminally incom... Read Full Story

Proving, once again, that Dean Singleton's ContraCostaTimes.com sucks is today's "CelebPix" at http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13161769. The headline reels us in with the promise of Britney Spears in a bikini.Once click later you're feasting your horny eyes on Bill Cosby (top photo).That's right up there with the time the CCT teased to photos of Megan Fox and delivered a shot of Betty White. You can see what you're missing in the bottom photo.God bless America. Read Full Story

Is The World's Greatest Blog dead?  No, but it is really freakin' tired in an "I had no idea parenthood would be this exhausting" kind of way.Throw dealing with some major mold and water damage at the house on top of getting a hang of the whole "dad" thing and you can see why this site is a lot staler than usual. Tweeting is proving to be a lot easier than blogging these days (https://twitter.com/howlingmadjay).So here's a dive into the sleep-deprived puddle of grey matter... Read Full Story

A whole lotta people in Pleasant Hill smell like potatoes, bacon, tortillas and cheese.At least I assume they do because the Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito was sold out at Taco Bell on my lunch break this afternoon. * THE RIGHT TIME FOR ROAD RAGE: I got stuck behind a moron puttering along at 20 miles per hour while he was flossing his teeth.  If anyone ever deserved to be run off the road and beaten with a blunt object it was this guy. * I HATE YOU TACO BELL GIRL: Why'd you even ask if I want h... Read Full Story

If loving the A's is wrong, I don't want to be right.The second half of the baseball season is about to start and the sports columnists for the major Bay Area newspaper Web sites don't exactly have warm and fuzzy feelings for the Oakland A's. The San Francisco Chronicle's Ray Ratto (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/15/SPMV18OH4A.DTL) says the club has "made an annoying and self-destructive virtue of being bland and faceless as well as mediocre." Fellow chroni... Read Full Story

The Contra Costa Times just sinks lower and lower into the rancid quicksand of Dean Singleton's ramshackle journalism empire.Today's absurd example? The CCT's list of blogs on its homepage featured a headline "A's to NUMMI" which sounded damn interesting to this blindly devoted A's fan. One eager mouse click took me to the page in the top photo.  Following the "Click here" link took me to the page in the lower photo ... which happens to be the San Francisco Chronicle ... t... Read Full Story

Here's one more example that every newspaper owned by Dean Singleton eventually becomes a bad joke ...I surfed over to ContraCostaTimes.com this morning to see what the local paper had to offer today and was naturally drawn to the Celeb Pics link at the side of the page. Who could resist?The CCT was teasing to a slideshow full of Megan Fox photos.  Could there possibly be a better way to start the day?I enthusiastically clicked on the "Slide show" link and waited for the "Trans... Read Full Story