I understand that every publication on the interwebs is trying to crack the whole 'monetizing' nut, but these scrollovers really take things too far.
Take Slate. This a.m., I stole three minutes from actual work to read up on the essentials—you know, my daily dose of counterintuitive rhetorical questions and columns on the best way to [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"Should District-Funded Lawyers Be Able to Sue the District?"; "Hoyer: D.C. Vote Through House By May?"
Morning all. So Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is back in [...]
Just some recap to get you feeling centered on this Monday morning: Washington City Paper's "Best Of" issue came out last week—it was a whopper, with a readers poll that pulled in 29,000 ballots and a huge editorial hole filled with picks on everything from Best Restaurant to Best Place to Buy a TV Stand.
Weekend [...]
This afternoon I called Mindy Good. She is the Child and Family Services Agency's press person. I had put in a request to interview the director of the troubled agency. When I hadn't heard back, I thought this merited a phone call to Good's cellphone.
I asked her about my request.
Good replied that all calls must [...]
Tickets for Phish at Merriweather Post sold out as soon as they went on sale today.
Looks like you'll have to deal with this guy.
Courthouse, 1990
I hate these things. Next time I order something over the Internet, I am going to send a query of some sort–maybe even call customer service–and ask if the thing comes packed in packing peanuts. If it does, I am sure I can make do without whatever consumer durable I was about to order. Because [...]
For the past two years, the District of Columbia has budgeted millions of dollars to help the poor hire lawyers to do civil legal work. This year, for instance, $3.6 million has been handed to the D.C. Bar Foundation to be in turn disbursed to various groups that do legal work for the indigent. This [...]
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer just appeared on WAMU-FM's Politics Hour to discuss the future of the D.C. House Voting Rights Act.
Hoyer acknowledged that "we've been distracted by the gun issue and a couple of other issues that haven't gotten as much publicity" but said he's been "talking to the mayor, talking to Vince Gray, [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"This Guy Is Running Your City Today"; "Traveling Fenty Jilts Ward 3 Dems"; "Feds: Barry Stopped Paying D.C. Back Taxes in July"; "Nickles on Mayoral [...]
JournoList, the top-secret liberals-only Google listserve that the America Prospect's Ezra Klein started in 2007, has made its way into the wide world, courtesy of the irreverant Mickey Kaus. The list has drawn conservative's ire since Politico reported its existence earlier this month. NRO's Mark Hemingway threw a fit and fell in it, asking "if [...]
I was saving this for my morning roundup, but Gawker, Wonkette and the Twitterverse are buzzing around this item like flies on a dead oppossum (I'll provide better context at 8 a.m.):
Observant blogger RobG at the horror site Icons of Fright has reported a somewhat alarming faux pas by Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing, distributors of Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In: The subtitles on the DVD and Blu-ray discs made available to the public suck.
And I say "made available to the public" because the film's [...]
In this week's issue, pages 88 and 89 have the correct page numbers on them. Unfortunately, they don't have the correct content. If it's not too much trouble, please cut them both out, transpose them, tape them together, and write 89 where it says 88 and 88 where it says 89.
Then you will read the [...]
Ivy City, 2000
