Marion Barry Is The Problem With Ward 8
Councilmembers in the District of Columbia hold an inordinate amount of power, so the current battle over the boundary between Ward 6 and Ward 8 is no surpri...
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Instead of football tonight, I watched Exit Through The Gift Shop. I’m a bit of a Banksy fan, and I wasn’t sure what to expect from this foray into film. I ...
Twelve Things I’d Rather Do With $30,000 Dollars
Hedda and I went to see Second City’s touring company at the Woolly Mammoth Theater last night, for their show entitled A Girl’s Guide to Washington Politics...
Goddamn Gentrifiers
By some measures, Heather and I are long-time residents of the District of Columbia. We moved into a small condo on the 1200 block of 13th Street NW in March...
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Statues In The Capitol
In a move one might describe as “adding insult to injury”, or perhaps as “petty and dickish”, the House has graciously decided that the tax-paying-but-unrepr...
Write Like No One is Reading
I haven’t blogged much lately. My employment has taken away my ability to talk publicly on most technical topics of interest to me, and my interest in engagi...
Dear Councilmember Bowser, Please Raise Our Taxes
Dear Councilmember Bowser,