- Bars and restaurants are possibly maybe finally going “smoke-free” in Virginia, the Philip Morris State. In the past Tim Kaine had stopped this from happening but now who knows. [DC Examiner]
- White powder and a dead fish were mailed to the Dept. of Homeland Security, meaning Rahm Emanuel is the Zodiac. [Washington Post]
- The journoterrorist who accosted Barry to get his autograph yesterday has been identified as some neocon driven to the brink of madness by the impossible demands of his twelve-year-old son. [Fishbowl DC]
- Elitist northeast grocery warehouse Wegmans is, like some people you knew in college who have decided to become “all activisty,” probably moving to DC soon! Both will text you incessantly for the names of cool bars. [WTOP]
- You can now take out a subprime mortgage on Nats tickets. Do it for your children’s futures. [DCist]
Virginia Isn’t Sure About This Whole Tobacco Thing Anymore
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MM..Wegmans!
Yay! Was a cashier at Weggies.
If only their warm, soothing light could stretch out to this cold, dark, flat expanse of the midwest… ah, but some hells are only reserved for those that deserve them.
David Sedaris wrote “It’s safe to assume that by 2025, guns will be sold in vending machines, but you won’t be able to smoke anywhere in America.”
I gave it up 15 years ago but don’t begrudge anyone a smoke if they do it out of my airspace. A lot of places will hold you to a limit of 2-3 drinks anymore so the last refuge of sinfulness may be in the home. And that’s not right.
oh my god!!! My IT guy finally got this proxy server shit sorted out. I haven’t been able to read this site all week and it’s been bugging the shit out of me! Anyone point me towards the highlights?
Have the sense to do what Tennessee did. No smoking, unless it’s a 21-up joint. Then it’s up to the owner. Sensible compromise.
Close of business and no stimulus package. This is a direct consequence of Harry Reid saying it would be done today.
Autograph-seeking journo: “harmless, to put it mildly.”
Ouch.
I went to school in western NY. Love me some Wegman’s.
[re=238323]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: All of my posts were brilliant, so just search on them. Shortsie only put up about 400 posts this week, of which about 60 percent were done with caps lock on, so it was kind of an OFF WEEK FOR HIM11!!!1!
[re=238323]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: We tried to make Denby cry, raccoons attacked our Barry, a runaway beagle tried to adopt Joe Biden, a groundhog attacked Bloomberg (there were a lot of critters this week), Ken used a potentially inappropriate picture and people got mad, there was a troll, and we all hated on dead Ronald Reagan. Oh and Obama is the worst epic failure in presidential history. That is basically it.
[re=238323]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: We’ve been pounded on Reagan today. Still hoping for a Peggy Noonan segment. She got on to ‘Cassius Clay’ today for being uppity and tries to tie that to Obama.
Also, Kev-O you were banned, by majority vote. THAT’s why you couldn’t get in.
(Hey don’t look at me, I abstained.)
[re=238349]OffTheRecord[/re]: I just read that post about racism. WTF? People were flipping out over all kinds of stupid shit. It was like Lord of the Flies…
[re=238370]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Damn. Was it my constant inability to stay on topic?
RE: the smoking thingy… When I was in VA last month I couldn’t get over the fact that cigarettes were like $3.00 and I could smoke anywhere. I kept stepping outside to smoke because it’s been years since I’ve lived anyplace where I’m not treated like a fucking leper. Honestly I just took it up again after a failed attempt to quit. Depressing. I made it eight months. Ho hum. I’ll give it another shot soon. These things are really lousy.
FUCK WEGMANS! They won’t sell you cigarettes. FASCISTS! That said, i do like the marketplace area and the soothing track lighting… and the CHEESE
The deal with the no-smoking in VA thing is that an important state legislator’s new son-in-law got rated as a smoker on his insurance even though he doesn’t smoke, just plays in a band in smoky bars. The effects of 2nd-hand smoke apparently matter now. Phillip-Morris be damned; we’re talkin’ about the father of powerful grandchildren here.
Bars and restaurants are possibly maybe finally going “smoke-free” in Virginia
A sure sign of the End Times. Does anyone else hear hoofbeats in the distance?
Oh I thought you were saying there was a Wegeman’s in NE DC. Which would have been HI-LARIOUS.
Hooray for Wegmans! (I’m from Rochester and we love our Wegmans!)
Elitist northeast grocery warehouse Wegmans is . . . probably moving to DC soon!
Juli, you goddamned tease. I went to high school next to Kingstowne, and it is not DC, despite where my comrades and I may have said we were from (although it is much closer than the Woodbridge location that opened).
I wish I still lived near a Weggies. That is the best shop ever. I would go there once a day because there was nothing else to do in the places they are located.
[re=238473]AutomaticPilot[/re]: When I went to (the) Eastman, we called Wegmans the “Mother Ship.”
Wegmans, always near the top of the ‘best companies to work for list’…this is good news for you out of work DC-ites.
I bow to the grocery god that is Danny Wegman.
[re=238627]klap[/re]: i grew up in Rochester and worked in a Wegmans photo lab during high school. Honest-to-god they gave me (and many, many others) a $1,000 scholarship to college. This was extra happy at the time, as all of GW’s gymnasiums, latte-stands, and Crossfire studios weren’t going to build themselves.
Wegmans is a wonderful case study of what happens when you don’t trade shares on the market… you can actually show your employees some love, so after you get huge and successful no one will hate you.
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