October 1, 2008
Go Home Already: Rain on Your Parade
Photo by izik
- "...unless you work at a bi-partisan law firm, reside in the environs of Capitol Hill, or go out drinking in Adams Morgan, you might never meet someone from the 'other America' during your time in Washington, D.C. You will probably work, sleep, eat, drink, and party with folks who are more or less just like you." [Campus Progress]
- "Evaluating a West Virginia man's claim that a Frederick County surgeon stapled his rectum shut, a jury Tuesday in U.S. District Court told the patient he was full of it." [Frederick News-Post]
- Final autopsy reports on the bodies of the two children found dead inside the freezer of their adoptive mother will take at least six weeks. [WaPo]
- An interview with “the only Wasilla resident living in Washington, DC.” [Wonkette]
- The fight in Ward 5 over the redevelopment of the Florida Market is heating up big time.
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That photo is exactly why semiautomatics and high-capacity magazines should remain illegal in DC. Between the Segway lazies and the fug sculpture, there are just so many layers of suck going on I fear my monitor might implode in a quantum singularity of suck. And then Q shows up and says something bitchy.
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That's a silly article. Arlington might have relatively more conservatives than Columbia Heights, but geez, it's (probably) the bluest county in Virginia. I don't know where the writer is from that he thinks a few douchy young conservatives at Whitlow's and Clarendon Ballroom qualify Arlington as solid Bush Country.
Georgetown I dunno about, I only go there to eat at Georgetown Vietnam restaurant.
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If you're the average lumpen AU student you're too busy saving 'Darfoore' and f**king fat chicks in your cosy little dorm room to get out and actually meet anyone other than your classmates.
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I agree that that article was just another stupid attempt at humor through making shallow generalizations and tired cliches. It's the equivilant of the whole "well white people drive like this..." line of humor. That it is also self-serving (my group good, your group bad) in its criticism is also part and parcel of that type of article.
That said there were some generalizations in there that I think at least are "truer" than others. I agree that Arlington is where most Southerners (who are generally more conservative) move to when they move to the area. Although I'd say the predominant schools are not the snicker-in-Northern-liberal-arts-students-inducing University of Georgia or SMU. I think the biggest contingent is probably UVA and William and Mary (but citing those as an example wouldn't make the author feel quite so superior, I guess).
Of course the description of Georgetown as being home to a lot of Republicans is simply wrong. There are as many "Impeach Cheney First" stickers around there as there are in any other neighborhood.
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While I was not a Wasilla resident, I did grow up in Anchorage, and spent all my summers in Wasilla. I know a real Wasilla resident who lives in Alexandria. So I wouldn't say that girl is the ONLY one.
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I agree that that article was just another stupid attempt at humor through making shallow generalizations and tired cliches.
Which is 98% of what that monkeyrotica a$$hole posts.
You've made a very powerful enemy, Reid. Don't be surprised when you step on that burning bag of poo on your front doorstep and find it's full of digested wax fruit.
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"An interview with “the only Wasilla resident living in Washington, DC.” [Wonkette]"
"I know a real Wasilla resident who lives in Alexandria. So I wouldn't say that girl is the ONLY one."
Alexandria hasn't been part of DC for over 150 years..
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re: a Frederick County surgeon stapled his rectum shut
I wonder if he kept feedin' him and feedin' him.
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"Which is 98% of what that monkeyrotica a$$hole posts."
Well, even if that were true, the remaining 2% represents about 100x the output of everyone else combined.
But I don't think it's true. Your cliches are nowhere near tired. They're like a five-year-old watching saturday mornign cartoons after 10 Red Bulls and a line of speed. And your generalities are deep like the pool of infant blood in Marion Barry's cellar.
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Monkey's comments are also insightful, like the lady on teh bus wearing the American flag on her head with the full granny cart.
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I know a real Wasilla resident who lives in Alexandria.
So is this person a resident of Wasilla or Alexandria?
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That photo is exactly why semiautomatics and high-capacity magazines should remain illegal in DC.
Man, remember when the fat fucking rubes from flyover country used to have to walk from museum to museum? Or take the big trolley bus?
I remember a time when a trip to DC was quite literally the single opportunity for exercise in the great majority of these folks impoverished lives.
I'm looking forward to the day when the average "Red-State" tourist can't even support their own weight anymore, and we'll start up a company that provides motorized wheelchair tours.
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How about a "Segway Tax?" Any fatass Red Stater who needs one to ride around "Warshinden" should pay a tax equal to 99 cents per pound of body weight. The revenue would get DC out of the hole in a big hurry. The heifers in that picture alone would pay for at least one new library.
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gotta say, there don't appear to be too many "heifers" in that photo.
still, shooting people on a segway is OK!
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loose clothes hide a lot Goph