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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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Dept of Obvs.

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on June 16, 2009 | Comments Off

I pretty much agree with MY here. I would only add, “duh”.

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Yeah, boyyyy!

Posted in Posts, tagged , on June 3, 2009 | Comments Off

Well done Spackerman!  Sometimes I miss my hard-roll sandwiches or whatever, but I also love it here and have made it my home. The mid-Atlantic is a region with its own cuisine, traditions, values.  Just like the Southwest, or New England or the Pacific Northwest, or (gasp!) NY Metro. I can’t eat crab, and don’t [...]

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Summer Style

Posted in Posts, tagged , on April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Attention, gentlemen seersucker-wearers: for April, your oxblood bucks are OK. (Yes, well, the seersucker in April seems a weird, but when it’s 98 degrees out with 2 days to go, I can sympathize with mens’ heat concerns…because no matter what day of the year, seersucker is better than poplin.) For May and June, break out [...]

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Dude, you live in America

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on December 16, 2008 | Comments Off

GAH!  Why oh why can’t we have better civics classes?  Or, like, any civics classes?  Especially for those who opine about civics.  I apologize in advance:  This sort of thing gets me so incensed that I can’t argue, I can only rant. We have multiple points of failure for legislation in order to provide opportunities [...]

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Quantum of perspective

Posted in Posts, tagged , on November 19, 2008 | Comments Off

I liked the recent Casino Royale well enough. (I thought I was being beaten over the head with the love story.) But I thoroughly enjoyed QoS when I saw it this weekend. I do have an affinity for Bond movies (they provided the structure for my favorite college paper ever, which I still think is [...]

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Dept of Kids Today

Posted in Posts, tagged , on June 16, 2008 | Comments Off

It is like that FOR. A. REASON. people. For Pete’s sake. Via. Now, the political structure of this country is not particularly favorable to urban areas. There are plenty of ways (the Senate, and relatedly the Electoral College) that rural areas receive disproportionate political power.

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The English, they hate the Irish…

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on June 3, 2008 | Comments Off

…the Americans, they hate the Reds. The punks, they hate the mods. ah, thanks kev. Put in mind of that fantastic work by the ModLog by this: Joshua Keating “Anti-Emo Riots in Mexico: ¡Pánico en el Disco!” by Joseph Contreras in Spin. Newsweek‘s Latin America editor examines the bizarre epidemic of violence against Mexican emo [...]

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Can Johnny read?

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on November 26, 2007 | Comments Off

Yes, a lot of folks stare at a computer all day, but school-age children still do most of their reading from books.  (I went to 15 different public schools and all of them required almost all of my reading to take the form of book reading.  At least 60% of my college reading was from [...]

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Hockey nostalgia

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , on November 16, 2007 | Comments Off

Well, here’s a hockey-fight story for you, MY: Back when the Caps played at the Cap Center (shudder), they had a game with the NY Islanders that was ugly from the first minute.  So, in the final moments of a particularly foul-ridden third period, the players on both sides just sort of skated around in [...]

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