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One Quarter of DC Snow Plows Broken
In news that will surprise nobody: 25 percent of D.C. plows out of commission As many as 60 of the District’s snow plows are not working — bad news for thousands of residents still waiting for their streets to be cleared. To make matters worse: The city is nearly out …
San Francisco Just Wants To Help
This was spotted on a sidewalk in San Francisco. Perhaps Liz Glover can help explain. h/t NR
Rahm Emanuel Offers Up An “Even-Tempered Apology”
This is fantastic. “You come after me on Facebook? What, are your fourteen? Here’s a status update: Grow the f–k up! Poke me again, and I will write s–t on your wall so obscene your computer will cry. Go back to the tundra, you f–king gimmick!” h/t Lazy Hazy’s SIL …
#snOMG Photos Piling Up
Leave it to CSPAN’s Howard Mortman to capture a #snOMG picture that happens to have a CSPAN ad prominently featured.
Famously Quoteworthy: Matt Labash
When recently asked when he was going to write a “real book,” Matt Labash, one of DC’s funniest writers, had this to say: What do you mean “real book”? This was nearly 15 years in the making. It has hardcovers, and pages, and even page numbers. I didn’t want to …
One Bad App
This is for the thousands of you bored DC residents waiting on the snow plow to show up.
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures #snOMG
This is what happens when the power goes out during a snow storm. [h/t BS via Don Seymour]
Why Does Brownie Hate New Orleans so Much?
Has he learned nothing? Seriously. Former FEMA chief Michael Brown isn’t the most popular guy in New Orleans, and his Super Bowl pick won’t help: “I have to go with the Colts,” Brown told the POLITICO Podcast. “I just tend to follow them more and I’ve just never been a …
Famous Friday [Wrap Up]
Doug Heye got a Drudge bomb and a new gig, Jon Stewart is more powerful than most politicians, a demon sheep stole the news week, speaking of Newsweek, Jim Treacher was struck by a black SUV, NBC continues to leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, Ed Chen saved the …
Facebook is Making Joan Rivers Look Like an Amateur
*Yes, we originally misspelled amateur. That’s the way we roll. Facebook gets another facelift: [just when we got used to the old version] Facebook on Thursday began rolling out a new design to its more than 350 million users, with various tweaks to encourage people to use the popular social …
Famously Quoteworthy: Ray’s: The Steaks, The Catch, The Glass, The Game
Restaurateur Michael Landrum is cranking out more Ray’s and more great quotes: “The truth is that rich people suck. Important people suck,” Landrum said. Not all of them, of course, but the “people who define themselves by whether they are wealthy or important. They are the worst to have to …