I just blogged about My Friend Ray’s $60,000 diet bet on the CityPaper’s blog and the first thing Ray said to me when he saw the blog was, “Man, I wish some gold digger would come along and help me lose some weight so I could treat her right when all this is over.”
the cnmi’s first member of congress, enjoying some noodles at raku
new story in the citypaper - about a library report that rather shockingly came right out and said that the older, richer, whiter people in a wealthy part of DC would really prefer there be fewer homeless people in the library. it’s not the sentiment that’s shocking - it’s a sentiment that it seems a lot of people struggle with, or struggle to make sense of, or something; it’s the frankness of the report that’s shocking, instead. but the head librarian in this library says he’s not kicking anyone out - the library is for everyone.
as someone I (barely) know put it yesterday: they’re having YOU write about baseball?
well indeed! baseball and free tickets and scalpers and libertarians in this week’s CityPaper.
Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist, who says:
There is the possibility of something beautiful and true and new. But to find it requires spending a lot of tedious hours alone working on it.
from the complaint that got the DC gun ban case started:
“Plaintiff Dick Anthony Heller is a natural person and a citizen of the United States
and of the District of Columbia. Mr. Heller resides in a high-crime neighborhood and is a
Special Police Officer of defendant District of Columbia. As a Special Police Officer, Mr. Heller
is licensed to and does carry a handgun in the course of his employment at the Thurgood
Marshall Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., providing security for the federal judiciary. Mr.
Heller lawfully owns various firearms located outside the District of Columbia, including
handguns and long guns, and presently intends to possess a functional handgun and long gun for
self-defense within his own home, but is prevented from doing so only by defendants’ active
enforcement of unconstitutional policies complained of in this action. Mr. Heller applied to
defendant District of Columbia for permission to possess a handgun within his home but was
refused. Mr. Heller fears arrest, criminal prosecution, incarceration, and fine if he were to
possess a functional handgun and/or long gun within his home. ”
Apparently being in my thirties and moving into a group house makes me newsworthy.
(oh wait, upon closer reading I see, this ad is a call for people who are in their late thirties and living in group housing. I’m merely in my mid-thirties. Not noteworthy! Yay! Plain as yogurt!)
