Science Festival, Freedom Plaza, Oct. 23. © 2010 Matt Dunn

Good morning, City Desk readers. Your news:

Yesterday on the MPD-4D listserv, Petworth residents tossed around the idea that the wave of violence had come to an end (or that everyone who cared had moved away), but it looks like they spoke too soon. Police are now looking for a black pick-up truck that shot at [...]

In her policy speech yesterday, her first, Palin and Palin's people based it on her one talking point not yet deemed a "lie" or "false"–motherhood. She tries to drop some science on fruit-fly research. She deems fruit-fly research a joke. One of those wasteful earmarks.
Science bites back. Science doesn't like Sarah. At all:
"This idiot [...]