
>> There's a new webcam available showing the progress of Monument Realty's Half Street project, which includes the expansion of the Navy Yard Metro station. [Near Southeast DC Redevelopment]
>> Georgetown student pleads not guilty in hate crime investigation. [WJLA/AP]
>> Members of the Metro board representing D.C. are pushing for higher parking fees at suburban stations in order to avoid increasing bus fares. [Examiner]
>> A bunch of streets will be closed this weekend for a cultural festival, neighborhood parade, bike race and more. WTOP has made a handy Google Map of the closures, which should make it much easier to bitch about them on the internet. [WTOP]
>> Our baseball writer Charles Gray likes to tell a story about his baseball coach brandishing a firearm during a game. Some Maryland peewee football players now have a similar story of their very own. [NBC4/AP]
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Regarding street closings: Forget those big festival and racing events a minute.
Did you know temporary street closing permits for neighborhood block parties are issued by the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency?
Are terrorists threatening to hold our charcoal grills hostage or something?
http://dcema.dc.gov/dcema/cwp/view,a,1225,q,533060,dcemaNav,%7C31808%7C.asp
Dazang!
Sommer got dissed:
http://thewhitmandc.blogspot.com/
I suppose it was only a matter of time before they started doing live streaming gentrification porn (SEE HOT HOT WILLING PROPERTIES OPEN THEIR GAPING HOLES TO WELL-HUNG CHAIN FRANCHISES!!)
Once upon a time, the internet was about bukkake and German watersports JPEGs. Now, its developer cams and cats and cheeseburgers.
This used to be one hell of a country. Damned if I know what happened.
What a stupid comment monkey... this used to be one hell of a country?
Here's a tip, beanbrain... everyone generation says that about the one before it...
It's all cyclical your trite griping is just more of the same... just in the present.
Yap, yap.
I could just continue the cyclical trite griping, #4, but I'll allow you the last trite gripe. I need the karma.
Oh Monkey, Monkey, Monkey. You're straying perilously close to knee-jerk hipster doofusism.