Martin Austermuhle
>> As you’ve all no doubt heard, we’re all Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Unless you’ve never authored a blog post, a comment, or even submitted a loosely-sourced tip to a blogger who would irresponsibly publish it. Then you’re nothing. [Time]
>> Thieves rob hipster bar, police shrug. It’s Christmas, after all. [City Desk]
>> Police have responded to a shooting on the 1200 block of U Street that took place around 4 p.m. today. One person was shot in the neck and taken to Howard University Hospital, their situation apparently critical. [NBC 4]
>> If you find yourself alone during the holidays this year, fear not — one local blogger found a creative, if creepy way to have his family over for dinner without actually having them over at all. And it’s much less high-tech than you’d think. [Pave the Whales]
>> If you see city bureaucrats walking out of the John Wilson Building with bags full of cash, it’s not your imagination — they really have gotten good bonuses this year. [D.C. Examiner]
>> We know that politicians will do anything for votes, but nothing as exciting as what George Washington apparently did when running for Virginia’s House of Burgesses in 1758. According to a fascinating book I’ve been reading, “A History of the World in 6 Glasses,” Washington’s campaign team “handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider — in a county with only 391 voters.” Awesome.
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