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Morning Roundup: Second Helpings Edition
Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress
Fire at 17th and L NW Forces Evacuations
Increased Urban Walkability For The Win
- If you're commuting by car to Montgomery County this evening, you might want to come up with some other plan, or wait until much later. The county's traffic lights still aren't timed right after a malfunction this morning.
- Area corporate executive denied first class seating on United Airlines because he was wearing a track suit. WTTG/FOX5 investigates!
- Jean Cryor, commissioner of the Montgomery County Planning Board, has died at the age of 70, AP reports.
- The latest on the H1N1 epidemic: yes, your pets can get it too, reminds WaPo's The Checkup blog.
- The Hill is Home sits down with Ward 6's Tommy Wells to talk youth crime.
- Why.i.hate.dc scolds Jim Graham for being clueless on the 15th Street contraflow bike lane project.
- Roll Call reports that Capitol Police temporarily shut down Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office Wednesday due to a suspicious letter that turned out to have been written by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.
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Does anyone know about the armed robbery on 13th NW last night in Columbia Heights? The helicopters
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The comments on that United Airlines story make one embarrassed to be a human being. Good thing I'm a muppet...
The story is nothing but classy all the way around. FOX5 points out it's an exclusive interview ... like, everyone else realizes it's big joke, not a story. Even better that it's a Best Buy exec. I hope the writers from Chuck see the story and work it into a show.
P.S., This is perfect light fare for a Go Home Already blog post at the end of a long day. Thanks, Sommer!
A Best Buy executive experienced poor customer service? Oh, the irony.
I'm reminded of the Onion headline, "Best Buy Employee Suggestion Box Brimming with Urine."
Best nugget from the last story was at the very end:
Koop declined to say who hand-delivered the envelope, saying it was “too complicated.”
If that's not a euphemism for "I'm banging an intern in Reid's office and she did me a favor," I don't know what is.
wow.
i know this probably belongs on gothamist, but i'm drunk on baseball right now.
That United story is disturbing, I've seen people in sweats fly first class for years. Were they afraid he was going to shed them and have a marathon up and down the aisle?
Arlington's traffic lights are screwed up this morning too, like it's not hard enough to get though that slum with the roads torn up 365 days a year.
The airlines make huge stacks of money by branding "First Class" tickets as an escape from the discomfort and indignity of rubbing elbows with the unwashed masses.
And then an ostensible member of the unwashed masses tries to walk into First Class.
The results are predictable.
It's the very concept of First Class that is disgusting, not this particular event.