• February 12, 2012

sidwell friends

DAY OF INFAMY SQUARED

Nation Aghast As Obama Daughters Eat Asian Food on Pearl Harbor Day

by Kaia Mursi

4:00 pm December 7, 2011

Before “Pearl Harbor” was reduced to a three-hour reel of explosions starring overpriced wooden puppet Ben Affleck, it was a place where a bunch of American soldiers were attacked by a bunch of Japanese soldiers these seventy years ago today. A Day of Infamy, if you will. You may remember from every commemorative evening news [...]

METRO SECTION

Add “Sleeping” To Inauguration Day Blacklist

by Juli Weiner

4:29 pm December 12, 2008

There will be no outdoor sleepovers the night before Inauguration, which is sexist against hobos. [DCist] D.C. will get a commemorative quarter, just like a real state! The coins will feature Duke Ellington, who, fun fact!, was born in North Carolina. Oh, the city still won’t have a senator or a (real) congressperson. [Washington Post] [...]

JOHN G. ROBERTS

Gossip Roundup: Kucinich Wins Primary

by wonkette

9:23 am August 24, 2005