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Metro Section: Wouldn’t Be Pruden Edition
Washington DC’s bid for a homicide-free year ends after four days of no murderdeathkills. That’s actually pretty good, comparatively. We’d predict a reduction of violent crime in DC for 2006, but wait until everyone hears about those taxi fare hikes. [ABC 7 News]
Moonies go crazy, issue online clampdowns. Now, Washington Times writers are required to get permission from their editors before they write a blog. We hate it when the road to literacy gets that much harder. [FishbowlDC]
Five years from now, we’ll be tracking a parallel uptick in debilitating late-adolescent insecurity. [Washington Post]
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Metro Section: The Flashiest Robot Around Edition
• You may be excited about the Redskins beating the tar out of the Cowboys, but only one man had the guts to taunt a stadium full of Dallas fans. The sweetest $1,000 Darrell Armstrong ever spent. [Deadspin]
• It’s been suggested that Butterstick’s sex toy may actually be the interior of the Wolfgang Puck self-heating can. We say, shame! Butterstick is too cute to deserve such stern discipline. [Make]
• “…like attending a junior high school dance - lots of seating opportunities around the perimeter of the room, all the better to sit and gawk and watch white people Elaine-dancing to Kanye and dudes in stripey shirts getting cockblocked…” The PIABs go to Childe Harold so you don’t have to. [Pygmalion in a Blanket]
• When Christmas shopping, don’t forget about gifts for the people who make your neighborhood what it is! [Rock Creek Rambler]
• WMATA is looking for a new voice for Metrorail. Think of the time commuters will be saved if they go with Diane Rehm! On the other hand, think about how quickly we’ll kill one another if they go with Mark Plotkin! [DCist]
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Thursday’s Remainders: Nothing New Under the Sun
What can we say? We started drinking early yesterday.
• More unoriginal Washington phraseology: “If you’re too ugly for L.A. and too dumb for N.Y., you can still get rich and famous in D.C.” Waylon Jennings spins in his grave. [Fishboy, Waylon.com]
• Must have been looking at Myles O’Brien stroke his rocket. [OddBits]
• Who hasn’t wanted so sing along with Steve Scully? Introducing C-SPAN Karaoke. [Wilderness Puppets via B&C via CNET]
• Another take on the Hill’s Hottest: “The old ladies get tossed a totally undeserved bone. Even Nancy Pelosi’s puckered ass looks better than this bitch.” Meeeeow! [Razzy.org]
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