Oh, like for instance, looking over and finding that he's been decapitated? Or is half-eaten by a bear?

Oh, there hasn't been a bear on the Blue Line in at least five years....

Yeah, sadly, that's not news. Edit: Hey! I meant the deleted post,

Heh. Sorry about that- I realized that it wasn't recent news and deleted it. I'm whimsical like that.

From that Nerve article

It's not like I'd never been to D.C. before I moved here. I went to Georgetown for college. People there would actually ask what you got on your SATs. It's the most vulgar thing in the world, and it's typical of people in D.C.: you can't relate to people as human beings; you can only find out if they can do something for you.

Yeah. Only at Georgetown would college students ask each other about their SAT scores. How vulgar! Tish.

Also news to me? Everyone in DC is in politics. I mean, if she was saying all of this stuff was only true of people on Capitol Hill, fine. But she doesn't:

Most people are in a couple in Washington. There are very few singles.

White people who move to DC love to talk like their world is the only world. Don't get me started. (Luckily, am currently rereading Nick's Trip.)

Sorry about that- I realized that it wasn't recent news and deleted it. I'm whimsical like that.

No prob. I appreciate the whimsy!

And that's when I knew she was stupid, crazy, or both.

Heh.

If you go to Wonkette, there's a contest for trying to figure out who the author is....

The crazed, window-whacking cardinal is back. Plus his girlfriends! Plump little buggers.

Note to self: not 19 anymore, and 4 hours of sleep = NOT ENOUGH OMG.

it's typical of people in D.C.: you can't relate to people as human beings; you can only find out if they can do something for you.

I did spend a summer as a receptionist for a high-power PR firm, and one of my funniest experiences was being talked up by bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young things. They would turn on the charm, ask me questions about my life, like I was practice for whoever they were going to chat up next. It made me laugh and laugh, friendliness so obviously used as a tool. And I bet they wouldn't have bothered practicing on me if I had been a middle-aged balck woman from the secretarial pool.

White people who move to DC love to talk like their world is the only world. Don't get me started.

OMG yes. It's not possible to have that much hot air in one city without a gigantic professional class to support it, but those people obviously don't count, because they don't wine-and-dine with Christopher Hitchens.

White people who move to DC love to talk like their world is the only world.

...I'm not really sure why that's a less objectionable generalization than any of the ones in the article.

We could all start generalizing about how people who live in LA are all a buncha phonies.