Posts Tagged ‘DC Police’

Police Corruption!: A Toys For Tots Ponzi Scheme

Friday, December 26th, 2008

On Christmas, four DC cops were videotaped stealing from Toys for Tots. Dick Cheney will subpoena this video and masturbate to it until Valentine’s Day. [DC Examiner]
Former Post executive editor Len Downie writes smutty fan-fiction about Ben Bradlee, our nation’s first lady. [Washingtonian]
The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun will now share stories, but only those about “certain Maryland news” (traffic on the Beltways?) and sports. [Fishbowl DC]
Barry’s face will now grace Metro farecards, just like an actual fascist dictatorship. [WTOP]
The cause of Bethesda’s terrible Biblical flood is still a mystery, but a sublime mystery. [Washington Post]

Friday, September 12th, 2008

This mom just gave her daughter some vodka, so why was she arrested for giving her child the best 13th birthday party ever? Was it because later that 13 year old went to the ER with alcohol poisoning? Or was it because the jealous police were just a bunch of losers when they were in middle school? [DCist]
This DC police officer was arrested for embezzling $180k using some complicated speeding ticket scheme that turns out not to have worked anyway. [WTOP]
Maryland farmers can no longer dump chicken feces in the Chesapeake. It’s only now this is being mandated. [Washington Post]
There are more people than ever riding the Metro and for shorter distances than ever. [DC Examiner]
Oh, finally, some much-needed vapid musings about orchids, and some inept drawings of some other people, who are all missing several limbs, who also muse vapidly about orchids. [Washington Independent]

SYRIA

Friday, August 4th, 2006

On DC’s new curfew: “It’s not that city officials want to play parent to every kid in the district. It’s just that, gosh, turns out law enforcement professionals are better parents .” [Hit&Run]
America is bad at jobs. [Eschaton]
“The chorus calling for Syrian involvement in crafting a Lebanon ceasefire solution now includes Richard Armitage, Warren Christopher, and Mr. Flat World himself, Tom Friedman. ” [Political Animal]
Report from the Promise Keepers meeting — it was titled “Unleashed,” and involved clips from The Matrix. [Slice of Laodicea]