After reading the cover of the Washington Post this morning, my roommate Tom pointed out that DC may need to change it’s liscence plates. ‘Yeah, taxation with only partial representation!’ I chimed in. Thats right, the House of Representatives finally passed a bill giving the Distr[...]
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Top 10 Reasons I love living in Washington, D.C.
1) I can walk down the street or ride the metro, listening to my ipod, dancing, and no one cares. 2) I love the metro and metro bus system. I love people watching and talking to strangers. 3) Throughout a day, it isn’t unusual to hear 5 or 6 different languages spoken. For me, the [...][...]
Genocide is Bad
Friday morning I was at the gym, browsing the Post Express. Every day they have a different ‘survey’ questions, polling their readers. This week’s question was “Should the US do more to combat violence in Darfur?” Now, I had always assumed that genocide wasn’t a p[...]
Immigration, Compassion, and Self-righteousness – repost
I wanted to repost this (it is from September) because I think it is still a very pressing issue and didn’t want it to get buried… ————– I could go on for hours about the current immigration debate. The part of this that really shocks me is the disregard for[...]
The News Tonight
This morning I was watching CNN at the gym and reminded of the horrid school shootings that have occurred, most recently at the Amish oneroom schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. As I looked around and realize that very few people were taking in the horror of this action, Jack Johnson’s song “Th[...]
Favorite Photos from my years in DC
I live 7 blocks from here: In DC, we like to protest against bad things like GWB’s inauguration: and for good things like rights for people who immigrate: While I wish the implications of this photo were true, I think it is funny to see a moving van in front of the white house: Sometimes [...][...]
Lessons from a DC coffee shop part 3: 2005
Update on C. C came into work yesterday for the first time after several days absentee. She said that she had had her biopsy and they had found two small lesions on her liver. She needs an operation. Sounds like something that many people will, not take for granted per say, but be able to [...][...]
Lessons from a DC coffee shop part 2: 2005
So, a week has passed since my lucid realization of class privilege. To make this awareness even more palpable C, a homeless woman who hangs out at the coffee shop, brought me a gift the other day. C is perhaps in her mid-40s. She talks to me a lot about how hard it is to [...][...]
Lessons from a DC coffee shop part 1: 2005
I realize that most people have, at some point in their life, been in debt. A few days ago I woke up and found out that I had negative money in my checking account. I had come face to face with a reality I had been teetering on since graduating from college and working for [...][...]
FMA Hearings – DC
Part one: Today was Tuesday, and that means that I get to get up at 5:15 and take the ever-exciting bus ride into dc to hang out in senator Feingold’s office… and, every week it is very worth the effort (although the night before I wonder sometimes). Anyway, why am I sending a semimass [...]