Joe “Question Boy” Garafoli profiles Rachel Maddow in yesterday’s Chronicle:

It is a showdown made in cable talk heaven, and it will be a staple of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which premiered on MSNBC this week. Maddow, a 35-year-old lesbian and former San Francisco ACT-UP activist squares off against 69-year-old Pat Buchanan, who in 1992 called for a Republican “cultural war” against gays.

When Maddow heard Buchanan’s Republican National Convention speech as a 19-year-old, it left the Castro Valley native in tears and – along with her Bay Area upbringing – inspired her along a life path where she now gets paid to argue with Pat Buchanan.