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 […]
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.
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. […]
My slate piece on nutraloaf is out. Apparently, in the long long past, the Onion also did a Nutraloaf taste-testing. This actually is a coincidence, though I’m surprised that more people - writers in particular - didn’t taste test Nutraloaf since it sounds so theoretically delicious and yet is sued over so frequently, thus […]
the counter spy act is in committee. it deals with zombies.