Last week’s comment section was full of goodness (and a technical glitch, sorry). From schools to traffic to illegal second timeouts, there was plenty to go around. The comment of the week comes from G Lover Park (who also narrowly missed the coveted best username of the week award). G Lover had a brilliant theory:

Yet more evidence of vast Supermarket Industrial Complex, more casually referred to as the Perishable Triangle.

The major brands get together with the supermarkets and the media to whip everyone into buying frenzy so that the stores look like scenes from 24 Days Later.

Then, regardless of whether it actually snows (see, Historic Trace Preciptation of 2000, generally), it’s back to trying to make news out of kiddie car thieves running people over, WMATA bus drivers running people over, and the OTR scandal numbers that seemingly double every two weeks. You know, the kind of infotainment that allows steady sales of toothpaste, adult diapers and hand cream, although to a lesser extent than the promise of frozen Armageddon that lends itself to poor driving condition (not so funny) and snowmen/snowwomen posed in compromising situations (ALWAYS funny).

After the jump, Gibbs a plenty, squirrels, closing D.C. schools and more.

Keep those comments coming, and why not go ahead and replace that panda avatar with something else?

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