WestEnder

Ah, Ronald Reagan's old "Welfare Queen" canard. You are indeed a dedicated acolyte, able to recite the Catechism flawlessly. Look at the root causes of someone "having kids by the truckload", and yo...

I (heart) income inequality. Thank you, Saint Reagan, for reducing the marginal tax rate for the richest Americans from 70% to 28%, enabling the rich to get richer, and the poor to ... well, you know...

Anybody who actually wants power should be disqualified from elected office. We'd be better off with a lottery, kind of like jury duty....

The Examiner has a rather more complete story. Seems like the guy bailed out once he got to the hospital, and immediately jumped into a getaway car. Wonder if this is the same Terrence Moore who w...

The kind of attitude that makes you think it's OK to pull a gun on a snowball fight doesn't simply appear one day after an otherwise exemplary 20-year career. And policing isn't a "job", it's a posit...

Amen to abolishing tenure. The only justification I've ever heard for it is "without tenure, a teacher could be pressured to give good grades to powerful politicians' kids." If it comes to a choice ...

Shooter's name is now on the WaPo and AP wire. If Google is any guide, sounds like he's a computer geek libertarian gone psycho. Just another failure of our national mental health care system. Won...

"I never fucked anybody over in my life that didn't have it coming to 'em."...

I like the way the DPW release says that you have to put your bleach-laced black plastic trash bags out on the front curb by 6:30 PM the day before collection, and that you have to bring them back in ...

The problem with this kind of thuggish "street rule" is that it works both ways. Once it's OK to for you to vandalize cars, it's OK for the other guy to retaliate. What, you don't think anybody sees...

30-minute waits for trains (and another 30-minute wait for any transfers) pretty much meant that it was faster to walk in most cases. Record-low ridership on the day that you're the only motorized t...

American science education died a long time ago....

Well, that's 10 years of therapy down the drain. Thanks for that....

The Mount Vernon Trail bike trail runs from North Alexandria to Rosslyn. Of course, NPS never plows the trail, so it might be very rough going without skis/snowshoes, but -- unlike all the other pede...

Due to its compact urban nature, DC can be flintier than the suburbs. I'd expect that many, if not most, DC workers can reasonably walk or Metro to work. Which is a totally different situation than ...