If you live in the DC Metropolitan Area, please, please, please do yourself a favor and go to Colorado Kitchen (on Colorado Ave at 16th St.) Everything is homemade, from the biscuits to the purple cow– grape soda and ice cream. It’s officially the most relaxed, come through place around. Bonus: never a wait.
In the GOP’s latest effort to scramble the party platform away from public opinion of Bush, the Washington Post is reporting that Bush made the decision to commute I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s 30-month prison sentence almost single-handedly. Lone Ranger Bush didn’t even discuss his decision with the Justice Department or even his Republican buddies, who largely wanted a full pardon for Cheney’s chief of staff.
The “Free Scooter” camp is still outraged though. I mean, a commutation is like getting stuck on third base. Why not a fucking home run? One former senator Republican Alan Simpson was quoted asking:
“Why should anyone worry about that? [Bush] gets hammered every day. They don’t think George is doing anything right, so what do you lose?”
Yeah, man. I mean, George is already fucking up, so just let him fuck EVERYTHING up. Basically, the American legal system is to Bush what a room in the Beverly Hill Hotel is to Keith Moon. Still, the most disgusting part (and there are many) of this whole ordeal is the conservative fan base that Bush has regained. The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol said:
“By acting here, he is showing to conservatives the kind of leadership that made conservatives loyal to Bush once and could make them loyal once more,” Kristol said.
Good old Texas conservative leadership, folks: keep your buddies close and fry everyone else. But don’t be too hard on Bush; he’s trying really, really hard to pretend to know what justice really is. After all, just because Scoot is getting out of jail, that doesn’t mean that the judge, jury, prosecutor, defense, media and the rest of America wasted it’s time and money:
“The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged,” Bush said.
The poor man’s gone through so much already. He’s probably never going to get a job again. Hmm. He’s going to be blacklisted from Washington. No…well, it’s going to really, really suck. Seriously.
Source: Bush Wipes Away Libby’s Prison Sentence [Washington Post]
Source: A Decision Made Largely Alone [Washington Post]
The Supreme Court released a buzzkill of an opinion yesterday on the Morse v. Frederick free speech case. The trouble started in 2002, when the then-senior Jason Frederick was suspended for holding a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner at a school assembly in Juneau. But the Ed Rooney-esque actions of Principal Deborah Morse were just the start. Frederick’s mellow was ultimately harshed upon in a 5-4 majority decision from the Supremest of Courts that said his free speech was not violated in the suspension. But maybe they are right that the banner could have been disruptive to the educational environment, considering Alaska is ranked as the 46th dumbest state in the union. It gets better; Clarence Thomas even wrote a concurrent opinon in which he proposed overturning Tinker v. Des Moines, the foundation of students’ free speech jurisprudence. Bong hit banners are just a step away from black armbands.
Read the Post’s coverage here. They have to define what a bong is in the lead paragraph.
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Tucker Carlon’s show, Tucker, on MSNBC is kinda awesome.
Sure, it serves up the content like a snarky J-Crew ad, but it’s actually witty and they oscillate well between real news and serving up the anti-news stories we all crave– like Paris Hilton’s possible pardon and parliamentary brawls in Taiwan.
If you look at all the latest batch of news shows trying to target younger audiences it actually seems like the program designers are coming up with a more effective formula. As we know, they really need th 18-34 crowd so badly.
Thoughts on what I would do as an exec to lure the spring chickens in after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Fire is generally bad for business
It’s easy to read about how a stupid fire accidentally burnt up the building that houses the indoor portion of Eastern Market. But looking at this picture of this man coming to grips with the destruction of the business his family has owned for four generations is heartbreaking. As a cheesemonger, I can say with some limited authority that cheese is not necessarily a profitable business. It may be expensive, but unlike say, an expensive shirt, cheese goes bad. The amount of waste is huge, and to see cheese you really have to love it. I had only been to bowers once, and that was before I started selling cheese, and I could see that they were a tight community and they had fun. I’m sure that the same could be said for every business destroyed in the fire. These people put the emphasis on the customer and were truly a part of DC; much more than any monument. The rebuilding has already begun, but let’s at least recognize what’s been lost. For all that to be ruined is really fucked up.
Thank you, Craigslist, from Mia.
The Supreme Court Clerk of my heart - m4w - 30
Reply to: pers-318677509@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-04-25, 3:39PM EDTMy words come to you by ‘Writ of Certiorari’ from my heart. I have an ‘Opinion’: You are without a doubt the most perfect girl on the Hill. I look forward to argument days just so I can see your smile and say hello as you pass me in the Courtroom hall. Some days you are in your Clerk uniform tails and some days you are not, but you always look stunning. When I see you across the way during arguments it is hard to concentrate on keeping the record.
Now that this session of Oral arguments is over I am bummed because I never really had the chance to talk with you. So here on Craigslist I am bringing an ‘Appeal’ to take you out to coffee sometime?
On ‘habeas review’, my heart is doing time and you have been found guilty.:0)
C.R.
This is obviously never going to happen. But we wish it would.
For 13 years, Pamela Martin and Associates, a “high-end adult fantasy firm which offered legal sexual and erotic services across the spectrum of adult sexual behavior,” was DC’s leading escort service. A quick Google search yields tasty evidence. User Dickless C. left this review of the company on the consumer review site Judy’s Book (”The place for smart shoppers”):
It’s getting tough to get one’s groove on in this town if you are a Republican… However, this service has shown to be descreet, and the women are super. Ya’ gotta have the dough if you want the ‘full’ service…
Operating out of Rockville (301 231-5800) and Baltimore (410 244-1818), Madame Deborah J. Palfrey, who went by Jeane, would dispatch girls to four and five star hotels and private residences from 1993 to until October 2006, when the IRS seized her assets. Now Jeane’s looking at some serious legal bills, and how do you think she’s going to pay for them? By “selling the entire 46 pounds of detailed and itemized phone records for the 13 year period.”
Whoops! Nothing worse than being caught with your dick in your hands!
We promise you, dear readers, to stay on top of this one till, ride it, until its fumbling, awkward, feverish and expensive climax. But for now, read this interview with Jeane at the Smoking Gun.
