The Bay Area is now home to two of the top ten most dangerous cities: Oakland (fourth) and Richmond (ninth). Oakland was ranked eighth last year.CQ Press published the annual rankings based on several statistics: homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft.Oakland officials have already come out and cited several problems with the study. This all sounds like the usual commotion that arises every time someone is placed at the bottom—or top—of some ranking system (e.g. U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges”).The Clog cannot imagine this news affecting Berkeley students, who have long treated Oakland as a leper colony. The closest most students get to setting foot in Oakland during the semester is walking across the platform at the MacArthur BART station to transfer to the San Francisco train.As for Richmond, the Clog can’t name one thing located in the city other than Costco. As long as the gangbangers consider Costco a neutral zone, we all should be just dandy.The report also included a list of America’s safest cities. San Jose, which was perched atop these rankings last year, slipped to third behind Honolulu and El Paso. Seriously, El Paso? That must sting the pride of San Jose dwellers.Image Source: David Corby under Creative CommonsOakland 4th-most perilous U.S. city [Oakland Tribune]San Jose loses title of safest big city in America, falls to third [Oakland Tribune]

You should have. According to the United States Geological Survey, a magnitude 3.0 quake hit just after 4 pm today. So you all can go ahead and tell your grandchildren years from now that you were there for the Great Quake of 07. Not a bad accomplishment for the second day of class, huh?If you’re interested, you can ogle a map of the quake. And there’s all kinds of cool, scientific-type data over here. If you happen to be an unquenchable paranoiac, and who here isn’t, campus provides info on disaster preparation. As always, in times of crisis, the Clog recommends a fifth of whiskey. That always seems to work for us.Magnitude 3.0 - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA [USGS]

We usually don’t comment on the pro sports world, but a local event of this magnitude has to at least be acknowledged by the Clog. The Golden State Warriors’ 13 year long curse is finally over. The team’s infamous playoff drought ended Wednesday night with a victory over the thankfully feeble Portland Trail Blazers.

In case you’re a Southside denizen who was shocked by that horn honking and yelling last evening, rest assured that it probably just had something to do with the local team’s success. Oh, who are we kidding? If you live on Southside, you probably didn’t think anything of horns honking and drunk people screaming. And it probably had nothing to do with the game.

Get ready for insufferable Warriors bandwagon trendiness. It’s bad enough when those retro “The City” jerseys were threatening to become a Telegraph Avenue epidemic a month ago. Now that GS state’s actually won something, you might be blinded while walking to section by the sun’s reflection on a crowd of puke yellow thread sporters.

Who can blame the fair-weather trendies, though? Retro sports apparel is undeniably sick. Even the Jewish News Weekly loves the uniforms—in part because they believe that the emblem looks a bit like a Torah scroll. We are not making that one up. Perhaps they’d appreciate the team’s coming to maturity after 13 years more than anybody. Mazel tov, Warriors, mazel tov.