Morning Roundup: Goodbye, Abe Edition
Vegetate to Close at the End of the Month
D.C. Police Seek Suspect in Series of Bank Robberies
Suspect in 9-Year-Old's Murder Found Dead in D.C. Jail
Wizards Owner Abe Pollin Dies at 85
>> While the Post spends precious column inches on the risk of infectious disease in our produce, some GW microbiology students have dedicated their study to a more harrowing bacterial risk: those slimy, salmonella-ridden beer pong balls. [GW Hatchet]
>> Rarely do you find hipsters and schoolmarms on the same side in a fight, but the collective force of the PTA and the retro-food lovin' Bohemians is united against the War on Cupcakes. [Washington Post]
>> In one of the tightest races in history, outgoing Rep. Cynthia McKinney may have wrapped the title of Most Undeniably Certifiable in the wacky 109th Congress with one final act of symbolic insanity, the impeachment of George W. Bush. [Wonkette]
>> Virginia thinks it can pin down sexual predators' screen names and block them from MySpace. Can you see state troopers keeping 13,500 people from just changing their e-mail address? Oh, RoVa! [WTOP]
>> Talk about prepared! We haven't even slipped the bourbon into our eggnog yet, and some folks are already working on curing our holiday hangover! [Express]
Photo by Flickr user flickr-rickr, who caught lots of good Santarchy shots this weekend.
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Is that a flash pop-up ad I see? Cmon...
Can we please retire the term "hipster"? It's an over used generalization.
"hipster" and "foodie" are two works I hate.
ed. note - minor change made to the McKinney blurb, since I neglected to mention what zany competition she was in. But I rather like "hipster", which has become one of those fantastically charged descriptors. It's either admiring or condescending, totally at the discretion of the reader.
DCist Jeff - That's kind of exactly my point. It's like labeling someone a liberal or conservative; it almost doesn't matter what you meant when you said it, the meaning of the word is in the eye of the beholder. Thus rendering the word somewhat useless.
how about hip foodster to really get that stomach churning?
Finally, there a photo of me in a Santa suit and a green backpack taking a picture of a friend of mine in front of the Washington Monument on DCist. Scratching that one off my Life Accomplishments to do list now.