Thursday, February 18, 2010

Thursday morning roundup

China's charm offensive in South Asia continues: Nepal edition.

Sorry, tenthers: even Scalia says you're s$it out of luck, in not so many words.

The growing stimulus criticism industry.

Mail services in DC are catching up. I just got a week-late UPS delivery last week. The area will soon deal with potholes, which have quite a place in local history:
For decades, potholes were such an issue that some local political platforms were based in large measure on a promise to fill them. Marion Barry once launched a $1 million mayoral "war" on potholes; in 1987, potholes were so large and numerous that snowplows had trouble clearing the streets.

When Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to the District in 1990, crews rushed to patch potholes in places his limo might travel. The same year, a candidate for the D.C. Council patched a dozen potholes herself to make a point. Columnist Art Buchwald wrote in 1996: "Many of them are so large that an aircraft carrier can disappear into one and never be heard of again."
This column isn't posted to the site yet, but Thomas Heath reports that Crumbs is coming to DC in May. Because we need another cupcakery.

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