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Streetcars has died of dysentery....

"This is a really unique facility," White-Kjoss said. 'Really unique'? Really? Is that like being 'a little bit pregnant' or 'mostly dead'? You can't qualify unique. It's either unique or it's not....

That makes your head hurt? Really? There's 646 MPs in the British Parliament. 1386 if you count the lords. There's 802 members of the Indian Parliament. Greatest democracy in the world? Pft. If we ...

Libertarian: A Republican who still wants to get high....

Yeah, that's the real problem geek-stores have. Too much geek, not enough store. Kids these days are reading Manga like crazy and collected editions are doing quite well in standard bookstores. You'd ...

Comics went through a speculative boom in the 90's that opened a lot of comic shops. When it collapsed (unsurprisingly), a lot of shops went with them. The problems of comic shops (and their close cou...

Damn it. Who will undermine national security for partisan gain now?...

"I'm shocked, simply shocked to discover gambling going on!"...

The New York subway usually has four tracks, meaning you can do work on any one and keep regular overnight service going. In DC, with only one track in any direction, doing maintenance creates a sing...

And another thing. There are too many states these days. Please eliminate three. PS: I am *not* a crackpot!...

First Pitches? So they're all first? That's just stupid. Might as well say both teams win the game. We're all first! We're all winners!...

Unless, of course, the whole point was to provoke a confrontation in the first place. Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case....

God, I think they might have violated the Pun Prevention Act of 2007....

Okay, this seem confusing. Is the area of the vehicular road closures the same as the security cordon? It seems not, since there's public access points *inside* that area. I'd been planning on hoofing...

My own trip this morning was problem-free, but then it's a fairly short trip through middle-class Arlington, where most people were already using SmartTrip cards. I don't doubt there'll be some pain b...