The Science Times Delivers Again

The first ever Google, in 1934.
Continuing with what I guess are this week’s themes: Hasidic Jews and baseball in Brooklyn.
“Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t.”
Maryland Elects First Black Woman to Congress!

OMG Hil is SO Pressed for Barack

Picking a vice presidential candidate is a lot like choosing a prom date.  Politics would be a lot more fun if politicians had IM and  we could read their transcripts… (On a related note, at the AIPAC Conference this past week, Clinton and Obama apparently walked past one another in the hallway, but didn’t speak.  [...]

All Sorts of Goodies

Barack Obama loves a beverage from Bethesda!
A rap mixtape all about Seinfeld. AWESOME. (”Soulja Boy features prominently, natch.” Mexico tourism: don’t paint our sacred temples on a naked lady.
Apparently our genes tell us how to vote.
Shakespeare was a schlub.
I love obnoxious bride stories. Thank you Michelle Singletary.
Just for you, Arielle: Bob Herbert writes a [...]

Assorted Things You Should Know

University of Maryland Team Wins First National Quiz Bowl Title! You have no idea how excited this makes me.
Stuff White People Like: Grammar.  Look for the hidden grammar errors!
Kids From My High School Caught in a Drug Bust.  Well done, Whitman, well done.
Good WNYC interview about Life as a Talking Head.  Now I want to [...]

Thrilled!

Here’s a not-so-big secret:  I was super involved as an undergraduate at the University of Maryland.  One of the things I worked hard for, but eventually failed at accomplishing, was opening up the UMD shuttle bus system to the residents of College Park, Maryland.  If you’d like to know all the details why (and why [...]

Yeserday’s Times

Old news can still be timely.
An article about the newest show to hit Broadway, “Glory Days.”  The guys who wrote it are from Maryland (although my fine researching skills by way of Google are not letting me find out where, exactly, in Maryland they’re from)!  Regardless, the play is about high school students, its writers [...]

Quick Notes

First: As of “press time,” the Nationals are still this season’s winningest team.  This is not an April Fool’s Joke.
Also, my graduate school is playing my dad’s graduate school in a sporting event.  100 points to whoever posts a comment on which game I’m talking about.  Bonus points if you know the degree my dad [...]

Monday Mess

First, what I’d like to call the Switcheroo, the New York press covering the D.C. region, and the D.C. press covering the NY region:
Times article on Smith Island cake. I just wish it came with an audio of the great accents (and maybe a taste of cake…).
A Post article on the abundance of (white) [...]

Happy Opening Day!

The Nationals’ new ballpark is finally open! I am so excited, I can barely contain myself! And, even though, I’m in New Jersey, the game is on ESPN tonight, so I can at least watch my boys play.
Here’s the Post article about how things went yesterday for the pre-season game versus Baltimore:
Fans Carried [...]

Sunday Sports

Another good article from today’s WaPoMag, about a fan who is thrilled to have baseball back in D.C., although it took a while for him to get really excited about it. (I for one, am thrilled. Too bad I didn’t actually get tickets for opening weekend.)
Also, the worst clock cheating of the 21st [...]