Washington, DC is known to be America's "capital" city—of hipness. Much of that hip, young vibe is driven by "millennial"-generation "hipsters," spreading their hipness around the city like a blanket of comforting disease. But has DC gotten too hip for the good of its own hipness?
On Monday, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray signed a bill which will decriminalize possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. If caught with such possession, you will only be fined $25 and it will be considered a civil offense.
The D.C. Council passed a decriminalization measure today that would reduce the penalty for possessing an ounce of pot to a $25 civil fine. Unless the various federal police agencies feel like busting people under federal law, or Congress uses its colonial-rule powers to throw the whole thing out.
This strange and savage American winter has produced many oddities, and the appearance of Snowy Owls from the Arctic Circle has been the only delight in a season of ice and gloom. And then a Washington DC bus struck a beloved white owl a block away from the White House Rose Garden.
"We're going to be the hippest city in the United States!"—Vincent Gray, the mayor of Washington, DC, speaking to a hip local crowd last night. What does he mean, "going to be?"
Last night in Brooklyn, two New York City transit cops stationed at a subway station at Lewis and Broadway in Bed-Stuy heard pounding above them. They walked up to the street to find a man with a cane banging on their patrol car. The two cops approached the man, who swung at them, striking one in the face. The other —…
The wave of hipness that has lately washed over Washington, DC has bathed the city's new residents in a glorious young, hip vibe. But it has also washed away the once sedate lives of the city's elderly, who now cower in their apartments, fearing that the next tidal wave of coolness may drown them for good.
More "millennials" are moving to Washington, DC than to any other city, which proves everything we've ever said about both millennials and Washington, DC.
When you think of "hip," there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that, just after you think "the joint between the femur and acetabulum of the pelvis," you think, "Washington, DC, which is just a hip darn area in general." DC is so hip that it will unilaterally declare itself hip, facts be damned.
Jofi Joseph, the White House staffer fired last week (and unmasked on Tuesday by The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin) for tweeting disparagingly about Obama administration officials, turns out to have been one of those Internet-based tough guys who make Twitter such a valuable medium. A few highlights from an archive of…
And boy are his arms tired.
Can this on-again, off-again trucker protest in D.C. get any fucking weirder than it already is? Yes, because anything is possible with speed. Despite one of the protest's organizers saying yesterday that the "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" rally was all a lie from the start, a rival organizer now says the…
Earl Conlon, the Georgia man who said he and a squad of other truckers were coming to D.C. this weekend to clog the roads and try to arrest congresspeople, now says his wild-eyed threats were just a bunch of baseless lies. This kind of honesty from fringe wingnuts is rare, so savor it.
The man who died last week after setting himself on fire on Washington D.C.'s National Mall has been identified as John Constantino, a 64-year-old resident of New Jersey. An attorney representing Constantino's family released a statement saying his motives weren't political, but instead were the result of “a long…
A trucker group plans to intentionally slow the flow of traffic in the Washington, D.C., beltway's inner loop beginning this Friday in a rally being called "Truckers Ride for the Constitution." Those truckers then plan to march on Congress and put legislators in handcuffs. What could go wrong with this genius scheme?
After being berated for his alarmist rush to judgment by Twitter users like @young_guac, Congressman Griffin has deleted the tweet condemning Democrats and apologized.
Over twenty reporters have accepted leadership positions in the Obama administration since 2008. And they’re having fun! “Journalists who became Obama operatives speak highly of the experience,” The Washington Post observes, after noting that four of the paper’s former staff members now work for the government.
A middle-aged man—he looks like a stockbroker dressed for Hooters—was just arrested for throwing lit firecrackers onto the White House lawn. This is not generally advisable behavior, but it seems especially stupid after the day D.C.'s been having.
