Before we begin, we’d like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It’s the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we’re trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where to…

The Metro, like D.C. itself, belongs to both everyone and no one. So when someone sues the Metro, just as when someone petitions for D.C. Vote, the courts have to consider just how much of a state D.C. really is. States, and agencies that qualify as “arms of the state,” are entitled to sovereign immunity from suit under the Eleventh Amendment. The theory underlying sovereign immnunity is that no one should be able to bankrupt…