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.

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 […]

 
this one’s on the wall in the Smithsonian in Anacostia

 
the church it’s memorializing - Our Lady of Perpetual Hope - is just down the street from said Smithsonian
and has something called the Panorama Room
which just sounds intoxicating
speaking of Anacostia, you should read this crazy story of the handsome devil named Captain John Smith
the first European […]

from the Washington CityPaper:
Attorney at Blah
if there’s a moral in this story it is this: go to law school with your eyes open

Here’s the piece for the ABA Journal about Indian lawyers who do work for American companies and law firms:
Manhattan Work At Mumbai Prices

turned into a real article for the Washington CityPaper
Wanted: Gullible Lawyers