Sunday, July 31st, 2005 – 07:36:36 PM
I was out doorknocking in the Lake Braddock precinct of Fairfax County today, when I knocked on one house.
Immediately I heard thumping, running footsteps to the door, where I heard a toddler scream…
“MOMMY!! MOMMY!! THE CHINESE GUY IS HERE!! THE CHINESE GUY IS HERE!!”
My mind was reeling about what that meant…a family of Chinese-haters? What?
“THE [...]
Sunday, July 31st, 2005 – 03:18:16 PM
I’ve been meaning to write about this one. Sorry. I wasn’t going to reinvent the wheel, after Lowell had posted a thorough writeup, but I received an email saying that some coverage was expected out of me. Oops.
Anyway, it was very impressive to me how Lt. Governor Kaine took some time out for us bloggers [...]
Saturday, July 30th, 2005 – 07:51:55 PM
After an outage this afternoon, all 750 Volts of the third rail are back online. And here I was, frantically pulling all I could off of Google caches of my site, thinking all was lost…haha.
[And don't say "You spoke too soon."]
Saturday, July 30th, 2005 – 03:33:44 PM
The Miami Herald published this photo on the front page on Thursday. Lying in a pool of his own blood, pistol clattering across the floor and spectacles lying in the foreground, suspended Miami commissioner Art Teele committed suicide in the lobby of the Miami Herald. Some in Miami say that Teele was tipped to suicide [...]
Saturday, July 30th, 2005 – 11:52:38 AM
Daily Press
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Indigent Defense Commission asked its executive director to resign Friday after complaints about his leadership and allocation of the commission’s $32 million annual budget.
Richard C. Goemann has led commission, which oversees and supports public defenders and court-appointed attorneys who provide legal services to the poor, since October 2003.
He [...]
Friday, July 29th, 2005 – 08:57:20 PM
Reader Tim Fullerton tips us off over email to an article in the Times Dispatch detailing yet another instance of conservative hatred.
Chesterfield Republican delegate Bradley Marrs sent out a fundraising letter attacking independent challenger Katherine Waddell for receiving a $10,000 check from a wealthy businessman. Say what? Is that anything new? Candidates have been accepting [...]
Friday, July 29th, 2005 – 05:29:47 PM
Coming out on the heels of the NRDC’s “Testing the Waters” report on America’s beach water quality (not too terribly pleasant reading, by the way) is this Daily Press article noting that both of Virginia’s senators voted for a survey of offshore oil and gas–a possible precursor to oil wells off of Virginia Beach. Earlier [...]
Thursday, July 28th, 2005 – 09:59:41 PM
…or skin you alive.
Up a little on 395, across the 14th Street Bridge and on toward the Capitol, The Hill thinks there are hotties, having taken it upon themselves to publish their second annual list of “The 50 Most Beautiful” people on Capitol Hill. DC Pussycat notes drolly it’s nothing to drool about. Oh, and [...]
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 – 11:43:11 PM
Note to West Springfield High School: Don’t get any ideas.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian educational authorities are investigating claims that noisy school children had had their mouths taped shut to keep them quiet, officials said Tuesday.
Police said the children, from a Catholic primary school at Wollongong, about 50 miles south of Sydney, had been at rehearsals [...]
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 – 12:39:45 PM
Finally got a chance to write about Monday night’s Asian-American dinner for Tim Kaine at the China Garden Restaurant on Wilson Boulevard, which I was at thanks to the help of FCDC Diversity Chair Rose Chu. I popped out of the Rosslyn metro, ran up and down Wilson Boulevard in the blazing heat, and then [...]
