February 26, 2008
Go Home Already: Now Hear This
>> "The water was temporarily shut off yesterday at one of the District's main social service offices because the commercial real estate company that leases the five-story building to the city for $212,000 a month had not paid the utility bill." [WaPo]
>> "Ben is one of the few Jewish cabbies still driving in Washington and he looks like Rick Moranis from the movie Honey I shrunk The Kids." [Diary of a Mad DC Cabbie]
>> Classes were canceled and the campus locked down at the small private Ferrum College in Franklin County, Va. as police searched for a man who was seen with a gun on campus. [AP via WTOP]
>> The Archdiocese of Washington is giving 14,000 tickets to about 120 Catholic dioceses for the April Mass that will be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at the Nationals ballpark. [AP via WUSA]
>> Sen. John Warner was admitted to a Washington area hospital Monday for observation after experiencing the return of an irregular heart beat. [CNN Political Ticker]
>> "An article complaining about the surplus of bedbug horror stories right next to a bedbug horror story. Talk about speaking out of both sides of your mouth." [why.i.hate.dc]
Photo by The Skipping Hippy
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Wouldn't it be easier for the police to find the guy in Franklin County who's not carrying a gun?
This post would've been so much better if it was titled "Go Home Already: Now Here This..."
My Zadie (grandfather) was a cabbie in DC until about 1995. Jewish cabbies do exist outside of Israel (though most over there are Arabs).
This picture is funny because poor maintanence workers are less educated than the person who edited the sign! HA!