Kudos to CNN for leading its Obama Beer Summit story with who drank what instead of who said what. There's a special place in hell for people who pander. Also, did you know Obama had another meeting yesterday, with Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? Of course not.

While we're on the topic of elevating abusive cops above world leaders, I've got two more candidates for future beer summits--and one of 'em's local!

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"The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention man need ever make." Statistician I.J. Good said that in 1965 in an early attempt to define technological singularity, or the moment when a machine's independent intelligence first genuinely surpasses a human's. (Think Skynet from the Terminator movies: machines run the show and humans are detritus; or, at best, slaves to their creations.)

Good's quote is the first thing readers will see nestled inside the front cover in Nanoman: The Post-Human Prometheus. Opposite the text is a panel, drawn by "rising star" Jon Reed, depicting a mechanical man dressed like Matlock sitting at a writing desk...on the bare surface of the moon.

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City Paper Contributor Arthur Delaney did some fine work on this week's cover story, "In Loco Parentis," which investigates how one 19-year-old who's about to "age-out" got stuck in D.C.'s foster system. She's the second in three generations of Child and Family Services: Her mother and her daughters are all part of the cycle.

Shawntaye Debrew has had placement after placement. She has two kids---Paris and London---who are no longer with her. Her sister wound up dead. She has had some trouble with weed and no GED.

The system didn't put Debrew in a case file and forget about her; it's been the one constant in her life. Who's to blame for this sad story? Delaney's been working at the answer for about six months. The results are complicated and, we think, pretty well-told.

(City Paper illustration by Doug Boehm)

Update from Ward 6: Don't miss this hard-hitting tell-all, in which Arthur Delaney (a.k.a. Sir Pants-a-lot) holds forth on his incredible dark horse campaign, the resonance of his message, his umbrella woes, and the perils of picking Glick.

Don't be fooled by the blazer, folks. Arthur Delaney may look like your typical District politico, but he drinks his beers one at a time. Just like the rest of us.

Trouble viewing? Try the YouTube version.

Photograph by Darrow Montgomery

Delaney Projections Done Right:

I thought of all my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing about.

—Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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