This looks interesting: Sir, No Sir, a film about the anti-war movement within the military in the 60s and 70s, is being screened tonight at Black Cat.

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…to Jane Galt, even if she is a jackbooted warmonger.

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Liz at Yellow is the Color spots a City Paper story about a fun-sounding plan by H Street watering hole The Red and the Black to offer a “shot and a haircut” special. Alas, it may run afoul of city regs stipulating that, as a health department spokesperson puts it, “No food establishment is authorized […]

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DCist has a great editorial on city councilman Jim Graham’s nonsensical reaction to the shooting of a teenage girl at a local club. Short version: Taleshia Ford, 17, goes to see an all-ages go-go show at a U Street club. Some asshole (illegally) brings a gun into the joint, gets into an altercation with the […]

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The America’s Future Foundation will be hosting a debate next week on “The Future of Fusionism.” Swing by Heritage on January 25th to see David Boaz vs. Ramesh Ponnuru and (grudge match!) Brink Lindsey vs. Jon Chait.

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The Washington Post Times reports on the few remaining places it’s legal to grab a smoke in the district—including, it’s nice to see, a few hookah bars in my vicinity. I note, however, this explanation for the exemption from council quisling Jim Graham: There is an element of consent so much greater if you’re going […]

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I’ll be heading over to the University of California Washington Center at 6:30 for an event with Nobel laureates Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams; should be interesting.

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About 20 minutes ago, I was sitting up in my room doing some reading, when down in the kitchen there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Not, alas, Santa, but some prospective burglar in a green coat who’d apparently managed to loudly knock over my housemate’s […]

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Housemate and journalist extraordinaire Kerry Howley reports that her bicycle’s front wheel just got stolen in broad daylight from bustling K Street downtown. How the hell does this happen? I understand how someone might be able to surreptitiously steal a bike seat, as often happens, but a bike wheel is pretty damn conspicuous, and presumably […]

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My weekend post positing a possible inverse relationship between a city’s average attractiveness and the prevalence of stranger-flirtation in bars prompted a few responses, from Ilya Somin at Volokh Conspiracy, Heather, and Glen Whitman. And to clarify for Glen: Yep, my implicit assumption was that in a high-average-attractiveness city, people will tend to have more […]

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