June 26, 2008
Go Home Already: Take Off
Photo by Samer Farha
- Is one man's trash another man's art installation? [Penn Quarter Living]
- One blogger sees racism from customers at Barnes and Noble. "People would rather go through Hell's fury than sit at the table next to me. Some are even afraid to sit at the table behind me or in front of me." [The Anacostia Diaries Blog]
- Lost in the Supreme Court shuffle this morning: The Rand Corp. has issued a report suggesting the District should spend $90 million of tobacco settlement money to expand primary and urgent health care through community health centers in the city's underserved areas. [WaPo]
- The Metro Board approved a new $1.9 billion budget today that includes $21 million in service and security improvements for Metrorail, Metrobus and MetroAccess. [WaPo]
- The chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents and his wife are giving $15 million to support the new Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History. [AP via WUSA]
- Robert Rice, a former interim superintendent of the D.C. public schools and former education official in Maryland, has died. He was 69. [AP via WTOP]
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Oh, get over your damn insecurity about why people don't sit next to you! What is this, 1968?
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Agreed. DCist, don't give credence to this racist by reprinting and linking to his scurrilous story.
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Hm. Maybe nobody sits next to you because you stink? It's usually the guys in the suits and ties that smell like Hai Karate and wide-open ass. And I don't care what color you are, if you need to wash your butt, you need to wash your butt. Cologne is not a substitute for personal hygene.
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Funny, I have the same problem. After a half hour walk home in 90 degree heat, no one wants to sit next to me while I sip my grande skim mocha at the P St. Starbucks.
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I take offense to the comment about Trader Joe's in that guys blog. I find TJ's prices to be a lot better than a regular grocery store.
Maybe he not only smells bad, but reeks of anger and "reverse-racism" as well. He doesn't seem to be the paragon of open-mindedness that he expects everyone else to be, judging from his blog rants.