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Posts Tagged ‘buses’

OUR FLOURISHING ECONOMY

Newest DC-NYC Bus Service, with Bonus Reviews!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

A few lovers’ quarrels aside, people in DC and New York City just love to visit each other. We love it enough that an industry of low-cost bus services has given birth to itself just to meet our human demands. Sure, it’s not as sexy as a train, or as opulent as a fancy personal automobile, but that’s what you get. MORE »


METRO SECTION

Several Comical Instances Of Botched Crimes

Friday, November 14th, 2008
  • Apparent 1980s Orlando club owner Paul Strauss, who moonlights as a DC “Shadow Senator”—an entirely unreal position he’s sometimes leveraged in attempts to hook up with Hayden Panetierre—acted like he was a real Senator during a recent DUI arrest. [DCist]
  • Rent out your apartment for thousands of dollars to Inauguration goers, the whole city is doing it! [DCist]
  • Hooray now buses, called “Circulators” apparently, will run through Adams Morgan. [DC Examiner]
  • Sexy thievery went terribly awry when some sunglassed mastermind stole a million bras but left behind her cell phone, which conveniently held artsy self-portraits. [WTOP]
  • A firefighter has been arrested for starting a fire that he was later called to fight. [Washington Post]

HIJINKS

Straight Talk Express Will Vote For Obama, Too

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

A boil on the assPoor Straight Talk Express, it sure had an awful go of things yesterday. At some point, either before or after it crushed an elderly black handicapped war veteran hero’s minivan, some rascally kids put an Obama bumper sticker on it. Check out the first comment on this website, too: “We were planning on doing that in my home town in iowa with a Ron Paul sticker, but decided against it as we figured it would upset people rather than make them laugh.” Huh? [Political Irony]


DEMOCRATS

John Edwards Throws Vice Presidency Under The Bus

Friday, April 4th, 2008

He would prefer to spend his time wearing gogglesYou would think that John Edwards would have more respect for the nation’s second highest office. After all, he himself was once elected vice president, before Ken Blackwell and voter suppression in Ohio robbed him of the chance to serve as #2 in John Kerry’s Thwarted Reign of Glory. However, after all the vice presidency has done for him, John Edwards has pulled down his pants and pissed all over the notion that he’d run as second fiddle to either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. MORE »


BUSES

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

straighttalk.jpgI’m on the fancy new WiFi bus. Seems to be working so far! But that could change! Also, there are no A/C outlets! There will still be content today, though, I promise. And Ken said he’s getting up early. Update: It just stopped working! Then it started working again!


METRO SECTION

CIRCULAMITY IN G’TOWN

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Next Stop: Danger - WonketteA rogue Circulator bus crashed into a Georgetown office building earlier today, causing one injury and the hilarious image you see to the right. MORE »