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 [...]

"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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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