The Associated Press is reporting, via the Examiner, that a Department of Homeland Security employee has been placed on leave after wearing a Halloween costume that was racially insensitive – even though it won “most original” in the agency costume contest. Deciding what costume to wear for Halloween can be tricky enough, but deciding what to wear to an office Halloween costume party in D.C. is tough business. You certainly wouldn’t want to wear the…

We missed this tidbit, but boingboing, via selfaudit via Reuters, points us in the direction of news of a federal raid earlier this month on three Pandora’s Cube stores in the suburbs where the stores were selling — in plain view mind you — Xbox videogame consoles that had been modified to use pirated software. DCist can safely say that this is a stupid move, not only to jerry-rig an Xbox to play unauthorized software,…

Doing Away With Federal Screeners: Dulles and Baltimore-Washington International airports may bring back private screeners, sending federal security personnel from the Transportation Security Administration packing. The Post reports that while nothing has been settled, Dulles and BWI are considering taking advantage of a TSA program to bring private screeners back to approved airports. Taxi Strike Causes Blood to Boil: The sudden 12-hour taxi strike did what it was supposed to do, annoy people enough to…