A reader sent us these two photos the other day, taken at 14th and Columbia Road NW late Saturday night. A pair of police officers appear to have been watching Family Guy via Hulu.com on the squad car’s computer. They had paused the video to enter a nearby store when the photo was taken. Now hopefully these officers were on a break or off-duty. And we guess it’s good they weren’t watching World’s Wildest Police…

Conventional wisdom, for many years, went that American audiences and British humour just didn’t mix. Apart from legions of cultish fans who could quote Python chapter and verse, and PBS viewers glued to re-runs of Upstairs, Downstairs and Fawlty Towers, most American audiences seemed either to not get it, or just not care. But the recent pond-crossing successes of Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais suggests that maybe tastes are changing on this side of…

David Bowie reference aside, perhaps you too, as a way of sticking it to the man for subjecting you to the indoors on a gorgeous day, start coming up with inane ideas, looking for good Family Guy quotes online, and doing other pointless things. Essentially, anything to make the time go faster and to avoid the work you really need to be doing. I’ve been staring at this pile of pennies that has managed to…