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• Posted Morning Roundup: Goodbye, Abe Edition to DCist
  Photo by Command Z Good morning, Washington. Given that the Metro system was already unusually full by yesterday afternoon, we're guessing that D.C. is going to be a bit of a ghost town today. If you're unlucky enough to still be stuck in the office, we hope the empty halls and cubicles at least provide a peaceful day before you cut out early. Pollin Remembered: The Post has a lengthy and glowing reflection on...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Shade of Gray Edition
  The real question is whether MW2 multiplayer would appeal to an unreconstructed Doom/Quake/Halo* arcade-style FPS player like myself. Even Gears of War's cover mechanic is mostly too boringly realistic for me; I've never played any of the CoD games, but...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Shade of Gray Edition
  MW2 wouldn't have lent itself to a Palin joke nearly as well. And anyway I'm still grinding on Borderlands....
• Posted Morning Roundup: Shade of Gray Edition to DCist
  Photo by Mr. T in DC Good morning, Washington. Well, it's been out since yesterday, and we're sure that many of you are already most of the way through your copies, doing your best to grapple with the rallying cry of the utterly braindead masses that, despite their arguably justified prominence in the pantheon of "authentically American" culture, actually represent a grave threat to our society and democracy. I'm speaking, of course, about Left...
• Posted Morning Roundup: Torrential Edition to DCist
  Photo by hellomarkers! Good morning, Washington. We hope those of you who had yesterday off had a pleasant holiday, despite the rain. It looks like today's weather won't be any better — though we're not sure if that's good (no ironically beautiful weather upon your reimprisonment at the office) or bad (rain is rain). NTSB To Hold Hearing on Metro Crash: The Examiner is reporting that the NTSB isn't done holding Metro's feet to...
• Commented on New Discount Bus Option to Philly, Wilmington, Boston
  Most of the buses that go from DC to Philly have no wifi, Cardozomite. You NYC travelers don't know how good you've got it. This will still be a huge step up from New Century and the very-intermittent Apex service...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Off-Year Over Edition
  Sorry about that, and thanks. Sleepy fingers....
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Off-Year Over Edition
  Well, Maine, too. But you're right, I've changed it to "in general"....
• Posted Morning Roundup: Off-Year Over Edition to DCist
  Photo by brianmka Good morning, Washington. As expected, Bob McDonnell thoroughly defeated Creigh Deeds in yesterday's race for the Virginia governor's office. Conservatives' efforts did well nationwide in general, in fact, with the exception of the tumultuous NY-23 race. Experts will be quick to tell you that election results during an off-year shouldn't be used to draw any broad conclusions... before wondering aloud whether there are any broad conclusions that they can draw from...
• Posted Morning Roundup: Copters, Boats, Rockets Edition to DCist
  Photo by FiZ Good morning, Washington. How many of you made it to last night's High Heel Race? The weather must have made it not only unpleasant for onlookers but downright treacherous for participants. But a quick search of the tubes (from my warm, dry couch) makes it sound as though the event went off without any major problems, which is good to hear (and hey, it looks like Mayor Fenty was in attendance)....
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Too Many Shots, and Too Few Edition
  I won't wade into your prescribed solution, but I do think this is a mischaracterization: The violent gangster's goals are political in nature - control of the street corner and illegal drug economy. Again, we're stretching the words. I wouldn't...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Too Many Shots, and Too Few Edition
  I'm sympathetic to your concerns, but the idea that we should refer to all violent criminals as terrorists is ludicrous. The word terrorist connotes a very specific form of violent political action -- an element of asymmetric warfare designed to...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Too Many Shots, and Too Few Edition
  Believe me, I would've liked to include something -- I live at 9th & O. But I wasn't able to find any good online accounts prior to posting the roundup, and wasn't in a position to report it myself. But...
• Posted Morning Roundup: Too Many Shots, and Too Few Edition to DCist
  Photo by Chris D Good morning, Washington. Two more days! If my dashboard widget is to be believed, the beautiful weather is supposed to last through Thursday (Friday will be warm but rainy). Enjoy it while it lasts. Shooting Outside Petworth Safeway: A shooting in front of the Georgia Avenue Safeway has left a teenager critically injured. The Post reports that it happened around 8:30 p.m. last night. Two people, one on a bicycle,...
• Posted Morning Roundup: Awkward Cranking Edition to DCist
  Photo by Hoffman Good morning, Washington. Today's top puff/cross-promotional item: local diamond merchants Ronnie Mervis and his son Jon have started a petition claiming that they'll try to buy the Redskins from Dan Snyder if they get the stated support (and email addresses) of 10,000 Redskins fans/diamond-buyers. On the one hand, this is obviously a brazen attempt to take advantage of those of us who lie in the sizable overlap between the "Redskin fan"...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Epidemiological Ennui Edition
  Those didn't strike me as being as newsworthy because the event happened a while ago -- one was sentencing, one was a surprising mid-trial confession. The Friendship Heights shutdown happened yesterday, so folks might be wondering about it. Plus there's...
• Posted Morning Roundup: Epidemiological Ennui Edition to DCist
  Photo by Matt Dunn Good morning, Washington. The swine flu is back in the news, and nobody's very happy about it. Not only because the illness is debilitating and occasionally deadly, but also because by now it's just so boring. America spent a good part of the summer freaking out about H1N1, only to see it betray us by failing to kill very many people. And now it's back, and we're supposed to just...
• Commented on Morning Roundup: Selective Enforcement Edition
  Aw, y'all are making me blush. But seriously, doing this one day a week is easy -- I can just sacrifice an evening, wake up a little early and get it online. That's not really a sustainable model when you...
• Posted Morning Roundup: Selective Enforcement Edition to DCist
  Photo by Jessica Juriga Good morning, Washington. No doubt many of you have been following the news of longtime fugitive and admitted sex offender Roman Polanski's recent arrest in Switzerland. For many — including some at our hometown paper — the case has revealed a confounding moral dilemma: should we punish those who break the law even when we sort of like them? Truly, this is a question with no easy answers, as two...
• Posted Morning Roundup: Parasitic Oscillation Edition to DCist
  Photo by Chris Rief Good morning, Washington. Remember yesterday's taxi strike that no one noticed? We barely do, too! The Post has a story explaining what it was all about: apparently drivers are protesting a scheme proposed by Jim Graham to require medallions or a similar certification system — a measure explicitly designed to contain the number of cabs operating in the city. As with the switch to meters, we predict that our city's...