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If your shiraz is sparkling, then it has gone bad....

Ahem, taking something that belongs to someone else....

Along this line, I'd like it if we could distinguish between larceny (or pick-pocketing) and robbery. Larceny is taking someone that belongs to someone else. Robbery is larceny by force or threat of f...

It's disappointing that it took 20 comments plus responses before somebody made this point....

The discrepancy is a little odd, given that the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports actually rely on crime numbers as reported by the United States' thousands of local police departments. But it's not unheard...

The 1200 block of Euclid St NW was without power this morning. I had to shower in the dark, and everybody's lights came back on just as I left my house and started walking to work, natch....

I drove from Columbia Heights to Dupont Circle at 11am today, and I passed at least four police cars parked on the side of the road. Blocking an entire lane. There was only one lane of travel in each ...

What?? I'm surprised you left this one out. From Wonkette: Wednesday, Feb. 11: Everybody loves NPR's This American Life, so here's your chance to meet the radio personality behind it all, Ira Glass. ...

The new design looks like Wonkette, which somehow seems appropriate because DCist and Wonkette are the best blogs for DC news and gossip....

I am right there with oyu, oceanchild. I always enjoy Sunday Source as a mindless diversion after reading the hefty front page, outlook, metro, and business sections (and all the rest) from the Sunday...

I'm sorry that I'm about to get all elitist in explaining the points that Sommer misstated. Interestingly, even though the definition of a recession is generally agreed to be two straight quarters of ...

If you want to read the comments in your RSS reader, you need to go DCist.com and then follow IMGoph's instructions in comment #10. At least, that's how you have to do it with Google Reader....

Google Reader checks for updates to a particular feed at a frequency based on how many other Google Reader (and iGoogle) users are also subscribed to the same feed. Using Google Reader (and maybe iGoo...

I have two points to make. I'm sure a lot of other people are thinking the first one, while the second one might be limited to my odd way of thinking. 1) The Washington Post couldn't even write its o...

I wonder if this is related to the work that was being done last night at the 12+O and 11+O intersections. There was some serious manhole action going, and not in the sexy way that monkeyrotica descri...