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...
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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...Little girl is super sad that George Washington is not our current president
Sick of campaign ads? Disgusted by the DC insiders and/or Tea Party outsiders running for office? This four-year-old girl, who just finished learning about early American history and became very enamored of our first president, feels your pain.
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.
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