crazydrumguy » Washingon D.C.

Reading Isn’t Always Knowledge

Eric — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:26:34 +0000

DC Republicans (???) do not care for Councilman Jim Graham’s plan to name a park after Barack Hussein Obama Jr. Maybe they just want to see the birth certificate first? (CityDesk)
A MetroBus driver who was caught reading on the job was told to please don’t do that again. Who knew that reading while driving would be so frowned upon by Metro? (WTOP)
The DC sales tax holiday weekend used to be the only reason to stick around in this swamp in August, but there is no sales tax holiday this year thanks to the whole major economic depression thing. (DC.gov)
A drop in violent crime in the DC area has confused so-called crime experts, who figure we should all be murdering each other for apple cores and bread crumbs by now. (Washington Post)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Brotherhood

Eric — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:45:33 +0000

Sen. Tom Coburn will never tell us what he said to John Ensign about Ensign’s affair, except he already has. (Roll Call/Politico, via DKos)
Visitors to DC, it is totally reasonable to confuse the Capitol with the White House, what with both of them having giant frickin’ domes on top of them. (Spotted: DC Summer Interns)
Poor Michael Jackson! Your House of Representatives will not vote on a resolution honoring him because there are too may “contrary views.” Too bad, because it’s not like they have anything important to do, right? (CNN)
Sen. Al Franken is meeting with Sonia Sotomayor to exchange humorous race-jokes about white people. (Minnesota Public Radio)

The Obama Diet

Eric — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:51:40 +0000

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Here you go, DC, a Google Map of places where you can never ever eat again because Barack Obama et al once ate there, when they aren’t eating their fancy dijon mustard and arugula salads, and now everyone in the universe has to go to Good Stuff and/or Ben’s Chili Bowl when they visit Washington. [...]