I'm really starting to get frustrated with all the people from more northerly states who are talking about how people in DC and Philly are wusses for how we reacted to the snow. I was just watching Rachel Maddow, and she was talking about how stupid people in Washington DC are for not having the equipment required to clear the snow, which meant ( Read more... )

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Obvious bias in reporting makes me sad.There isn't really any question where the reporter stands on this issue. Council=valiant warriors for truth, Church=mobsters willing to hold the poor hostage to advance their agenda. The truth, of course, is far different. I can't imagine that the Council was oblivious to the consequences when they started ( Read more... )

God bless John Allen Muhammad, as well as those who participated in his execution. I don't understand the need that we have to kill people who have been effectively stopped from killing again and basically pose no threat to us anymore, maybe it's a holdover from our base nature. He may have been unrepentant, but he never would have seen the outside ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's a sadder fact that I just screamed at my television screen because of an inaccurate question on Jeopardy! or that they got it so horribly wrong. The answer was something along the lines of "This river flows through Washington, DC," and as the geek that I am I immediately stated the correct answer which is the Anacostia. To my ( Read more... )

It's really about timeI cannot say enough how much I hate this building. It's out of place in the area where it is, or for that matter in any area that's not part of a dark, dystopian future. The congregation doesn't want to continue worshiping in the bleak building, and I doubt that any other congregation really would want to take it over from ( Read more... )

Truly a bittersweet moment in DC historyIt figures that, at the moment that Congress may finally grant the residents of DC their well-deserved rights, the very same Congress may take away the very safety and security of those same residents. Apparently it's not enough that they forced DC to allow assault rifles to be sold freely on their streets ( Read more... )

Barack Obama is finally our President, and let me say that I have been waiting a long time to see that helicopter take off from the Capitol with George W. Bush on board. DC looks insane with activity, part of me really wishes I could have been there but the sane part knows that I couldn't have handled wading through such a large crowd of people and ( Read more... )

It just keeps getting worse

I was afraid that this might happen when we got news about the closing of the Lansburgh Olsson's. Apparently the book distributors really wanted Olsson's shut down (maybe they prefer faceless national chains like Barnes & Noble), and ultimately they got their wish. This is a victory for bland, generic bookstores and a ( Read more... )

Please, dear Lord, let them tear that awful building downAnybody who hasn't had the aesthetic displeasure of going down I Street toward Farragut Square and passing by this affront to architecture has no idea how truly awful it is. This building is, by far, the worst idea of a church structure that I have ever seen. The article is accurate in ( Read more... )