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Wha?

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

If stuff this idiotic can be published by a NYT columnist, then I am obviously getting short-changed on the reader count for this blog (not that I don’t love you guys! I do!).  Or, I chose the wrong line of work when casting about after the USSR collapsed.
Oh, wait.  President Obama is older than I [...]

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Something for Nothing

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

So, this week the “temporary” Metro fare increases took effect.  Yesterday I managed to catch a bus from the Metro stop to the office, and the man who got on after me spent my entire ride ranting at the top of his lungs that his fare was $1.45.  I’m not kidding; I wear noise-isolating earbuds [...]

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Here’s to Winter

Posted in Posts, tagged , on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

You know, I don’t like the summer.  It’s hot.  It’s muggy.  It’s sunny. I mean, you can always put on more clothes if you’re cold; there’s only so far you can go in the opposite direction without getting fired from your job.  I have a low body temperature (if my temp is 98.6, I have [...]

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Murphy’s Law

Posted in Posts, tagged on November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Thanks, Universe, for making today sort of suck.  It started with me cutting my hand open this morning, and has continued in that vein (ha! see what I did there?) all day.  It’s best not to write a whole whiny blog post about it.  I’ll just say that I blame the Damn Yankees, and leave [...]

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Manners, people, please!

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , , , on October 1, 2009 | Comments Off

What is with the rude behavior this morning on the bus and the Metro?
First, I was on the bus riding from home to the Metro station. A man signaled for a stop, and got up to patiently wait (behind the line, like he’s supposed to) until it was time for him to disembark.  With half [...]

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Oh Noes! A Pantsuit!

Posted in Posts, tagged , on September 10, 2009 | Comments Off

Oh. My. God.  First of all, people actually wondered about what Elena Kagan was going to wear for her first oral argument?
Second of all, anyone with half a brain would realize, after (amazingly) wasting the time wondering about this, that she’s a woman.  Women aren’t meant to wear cutaway coats and striped trousers for morning [...]

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Bartending 101

Posted in Posts, tagged , on August 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Washingtonian Magazine tweets their post that at DC’s new W Hotel bar, the Point of View Lounge, “[o]rdering a drink ‘on the rocks’…is not so simple.”  We click through and we learn that the bar serves iced drinks with the ice in one of five forms — shaved, cubed, chopped, speared (?), and spherical.  (Personally, [...]

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Dept of Duh

Posted in Posts, tagged , on August 10, 2009 | Comments Off

Could it be that one of the main reasons the National Mall is such a disgraceful collection of crappy-looking patches of dead grass is that D.C. has a serious dearth of city parks and so the jackass-filled Kickball Leagues, etc., must play on the Mall instead? The Anacostia Park and Rock Creek Park are beautiful [...]

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Salaries

Posted in Posts, tagged , on July 2, 2009 | Comments Off

Well, I was going to post this as a comment over on MY’s blog, but then I realized that would be stupid since it’s really just yet another BigLaw rant:
Commenter Micah said:  Although there are lots of goddamn lawyers.
To which I say:  The starting salary at a Biglaw DC firm these days is approx. $150K.  [...]

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Gov Sanford

Posted in Posts, tagged , on June 29, 2009 | Comments Off

Why don’t people seem to understand that the issue is not whether he slept with someone else, but that he DISAPPEARED for five days and not even the Lt. Governor was sure whether he would be in charge in the event of an emergency?
I believe that is what we call “dereliction of duty”.

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