Jan 05, 2006
The Gambling Continues in City Hall
It wasn’t three days ago the D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams ebulliently announced that he had won a bet with Philadelphia Mayor John Street over last Sunday’s Redskins/Eagles match-up. Now four cheesesteaks richer and riding a wave of confidence, Williams is betting that the Redskins will defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday’s first round playoff game. Should he go two for two, he’ll pick up six Cuban sandwiches from Tamba Bay Mayor Pam Iorio, should…
Jan 03, 2006
Morning Roundup: Living With Bugs Edition
A lead story in the Post’s Metro section this morning is the stuff to either make you queasy or curious. It involves one house, eight entomologists, and 70,000 bugs of assorted variety. It also features a man paid $11 to sit in a lawn chair with a patch of skin exposed for up to eight hours a day, a guinea pig for testing insect repellants. This isn’t the stuff that real news is made…