Poor Mojo's Newswire

At approximately 5:45 p.m., a customer exiting a 22 Fillmore electric trolley bus fell from the extended wheelchair lift of the vehicle, which was stopped (pointed southbound) on Fillmore Street at Haight Street (the northwest corner). The customer was transported to the hospital with unknown injuries. At approximately 6:05 p.m., the Muni bus moved forward and the wheelchair lift hit a fire hydrant and sheared it from the sidewalk. The cause of the bus's movement is under investigation. The fire hydrant reportedly struck a Muni Inspector who had responded to the incident. The Inspector was treated at the scene. Water from the hydrant reportedly caused flooding in at least one nearby building.

In the 1990s, the literary journal made its name as a fearless, equal opportunity deflator of conglomerate-orchestrated alternative rebellions, a muckraker that found its targets in the co-opting of cool and breathless hyping of killer apps. It swung to the left, but the piety of any ideology was never outside its crosshairs. Or as Frank put it, the real target was "the bubble of the moment." So, yeah, it's relevant. Indeed, the new Baffler looks a lot like the old Baffler, at least from the masthead up. ... Thomas Geoghegan, a Chicago lawyer and old friend of the editors' who ran last year for Rahm Emanuel's U.S. House of Representatives seat (but lost to Mike Quigley). He's now onboard as a "senior adviser," O'Neil said. Said Geoghegan: "It's a strange and interesting publication. Its take on the world was so non-American but defiantly Chicago at the same time. You got this sense its literary heroes were old-fashioned Chicago progressives like Studs Terkel. But it wasn't pushed in your face." ... In late 1992, The New York Times ran an item about grunge slang that Seattle scenesters supposedly used for everyday objects such as shoes and pants. The slang was entirely contrived by an employee of the Sub Pop record label, irritated with the carpetbagging media descending on her town. Word of the prank filtered down to Frank, and the Baffler ran an expose a few months later.

According to local Hemet, CA police, Gregory R. Denny arrived at the doorstep of a local woman, "arrested" her, and drove her to a local border patrol station asking them to take her into custody. He apparently did all of this while dressed as a U.S. Marshall wearing a law enforcement uniform, badge and a handgun. When the border patrol post could not verify the existence of a warrant for the woman, he drove her to the San Diego airport, made her buy her own ticket to the Philippines, then bypassed security to be sure she got on the plane telling the security checkpoint staff that he was deporting her. Denny has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, false imprisonment, impersonation of a peace officer, burglary, and false arrest.

PALO ALTO, CA—Alzheimer's researchers at Stanford University published a study this week showing that the degenerative brain disease is beginning to affect the baby boomer generation, causing many to remember the 1960s even less accurately than they normally would. "We're seeing men and women who have spent so much of their lives misremembering the past grow even more detached from reality," said neuroanatomist Dr. Arthur Rothensen, who conducted the study. "This terrible disease has made thousands of boomers' memories of the 1960s almost completely unreliable and fragmented. And we're talking about people who, even before they contracted Alzheimer's, believed they single-handedly ended the war in Vietnam." Added Rothensen, "It's just sad, really." The study, which surveyed more than 1,500 baby boomers, found that Alzheimer's disease had a noticeable effect on those already suffering from "selective memory loss," and only added to the unrealistic and often romanticized nature of personal accounts from the time period.

Ten Americans have been charged with child trafficking after they allegedly tried to leave Haiti with more than 30 survivors of the country's devastating earthquake. The Americans say they were trying to help orphaned children, but Haitian authorities say they had no documents to prove they had cleared the adoption of the children. The Baptists were arrested at Malpasse, Haiti's main border crossing with the Dominican Republic, after Haitian police conducted a routine search of their bus. There were 33 children, aged from two months to 12 years, on board.