Martin Austermuhle
Photo by peter.hill
- As the nation waited for the Supreme Court to hear arguments on President Obama’s health care reform, both the paid and the patient hoped to snatch one of the few public seats inside the courtroom. If they got in, they likely saw a “plane wreck” of a performance by the government’s lawyer and a likely decision to be rendered by Justice Anthony Kennedy.
- Like many other news outlets, we reported that Chick-fil-A would be launching a food truck in D.C. in April. The news provoked heated reaction from people angry with the chicken purveyor’s donations to anti-gay groups—and we were forced to respond.
- In other news, a Herman Cain video included imagery of a bunny rabbit being launched by a catapult and shot, we cataloged the wild animals that have wandered the streets of D.C., police made an arrest in relation to an anti-gay incident at IHOP in Columbia Heights, the National Cathedral reopened its central tower (and we climbed it), Metro turned 36, a report found that most of us would likely survive a nuclear blast in D.C., murder defendants started wearing hipster glasses to try and look more innocent, and Sekou Biddle won the Fugazi primary.
- Mayor Vince Gray envisioned a D.C. covered in speed cameras, Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) laid out his opposition to extended bar hours, OccuPeep D.C. won the Post’s Annual Peep Diorama contest, a motherf**kin’ snake came to a motherf**kin’ D.C. museum, Pleasant Pops announced that it would open a store near U Street, Occupy D.C. gained some furry and flame-retardant friends, Georgetown got a new and adorable mascot, six sites were chosen for medical marijuana cultivation centers in D.C., and a scaled-back and toned-down “Walmart of Weed” opened in Northeast.
