The D.C. sandwich guy™ has been found not guilty of whatever crime they decided to charge him with this time. He’d previously beat a grand jury on a felony charge, so the U.S. Attorney for D.C., in her infinite wisdom, decided to charge him with a misdemeanor. For throwing a sandwich at a cop. It’s laughable. Why? Because if somebody threw a sandwich at me, and I called the cops on them to charge with felony assault, or even some misdemeanor, the cops would laugh at me. “Why are you wasting our time?” they would ask. And,...
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What cutting down a couple trees tells us about D.C. statehood
So, as you may have heard, President Trump has decided to destroy the East Wing of the White House to build some kind of Bribery Ballroom (name pending, but actually not because it’s going to be called the Trump Ballroom because of course it is). He also, you may not have noticed, cut down a few heritage trees for the same reason. If this were just a normal building somewhere else, owned by a real property owner, this would have been illegal. Mostly due to lack of permits, environmental protection (or lack of report of environmental impacts),...
Continue reading...From occupied DC
How does it feel to live in an occupied city? Well, it fucking sucks, man. How does all this feel? It fucking sucks, man. In case you’re unaware because you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, our so-called commander-in-chief decided that the capital (capitol) city is such a hornet’s nest of criminal activity that it is a national emergency that he had to surge the troops or whatever the fuck he is thinking on any given sundown. It’s all bullshit. This whole administration is bullshit. Don’t worry, though: it’s all a distraction....
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Well thank goodness DC may have ranked choice voting in 2026 because this is absurd. Expelled former DC council member Trayon White wins his seat back despite 70.55% of the albeit small electorate voting against him (probably on account of the crimes). You may think being a criminal would be a problem for people running for election, but that’s just not the case anymore, if it ever was. I mean at least he’s not an adjudicated sexual abuser who was found guilty of a ton of felonies and is no longer allowed to run a foundation in...
Continue reading...D.C./Virginia area, here’s your (belated) weather report
Sure, it’s already snowing a bunch*, but you need this. We at V+V HQ have now watched this five times to make sure we get all the information. *LOLBoston P.S. Have a hot toddy; the government’s closed tomorrow.
Continue reading...Panda loves snow
So, it’s snowing today in the nation’s capital, which is friggin’ annoying, but you know who fucking loves it? That’s right, that little bastard Bao Bao, our resident kind-of-a-baby panda at the National Zoo. It’s his first snow, and he friggin’ loves it. Like the bastard he is. Anyways, carry on with your miserable day.
Continue reading...Ninety percent of fast food cooks will be affected by D.C. raising the minimum wage
D.C. recently passed a law gradually increasing the minimum wage, from $8.25 to $11.50 by 2016. According to a report by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, this will affect ninety percent of D.C. fast-food cooks. I don’t have much more to say about that, except it’s a damned shame we have to have this job-killing minimum wage, because corporations would be paying workers way better without it. Or something. Unleash the free market or whatnot.
Continue reading...Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Happy Primary Day wherever you’re voting today. I know I have some crossed fingers in some races today.
Continue reading...Yes, it's hot outside, but the Potomac River is really not a good place to go swimming
As if we needed another reason to avoid swimming in the Potomac River, now we have to be afraid of…sharks? Willy Dean has an incredible fish tale to tell. On Tuesday, he caught a shark while on the Potomac River in St. Mary’s County, Md. Don’t believe him? He has the pictures to prove it. Dean put out a net Monday at Cornfield Harbor in the Potomac three miles north of Point Lookout with hopes of catching cow-nosed rays for a Solomons Island Marina biologist. When he checked Monday night everything seemed normal. But when he checked again Tuesday...
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From the GW Hatchet, the George Washington University newspaper: Though the rally was a mostly peaceful gathering, two rally attendees got into a heated argument with an employee at the GW Deli over the D.C. bag tax, which ultimately resulted in the tea party member throwing a sandwich in the deli employee’s face. The GW Deli declined to comment on the issue. The D.C. bag tax is a fee levied on disposable bags from stores and restaurants. It costs five cents per bag.
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