Most days out of the last two weeks, my morning commute has been hampered — no, assaulted — by young men and women with their earnestness matched only their rudeness. They stand on either side of the sidewalk — occasionally on both sides — and attack with fliers all people exiting the subway. They are [...] Read more »

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We just got started on our first cold snap here in the District. “Cold Snap” in Virginia generally means temperatures in the teens and twenties with high wind, although when I was in Blacksburg we once had a week with wind chills around -30F. *That* was serious cold, and I learned never to walk a [...] Read more »

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I’ve heard a number of places — not the least of which was a DNC letter in my own in-box — that Terry McAuliffe has been taking credit for an increase in small-donor “grass-roots” donations.
That may be. But I’d like to say here that I donated to the DNC _in spite of_, not because of, [...] Read more »

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I went to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving paper that year, which had always previously had a photo of a turkey (alive or cooked), or a community dinner at a church, or an illustration of a cornucopia, had _this_ year as the Thanksgiving photo a closeup of the face of the Crucified Christ, [...] Read more »

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Why oh why is there so much spyware? Could it be because people just don’t care anymore? “Sure looks like it.”:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65906,00.html
Frankly, I think it’s amazing what people will trade for “free.” I thought sharing some of your attention and brain-power on advertising was bad enough, but now some people feel it’s worth trading _every click [...] Read more »

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