Fifth and Oh

I wasn’t feeling well, so I missed the ANC meeting Wednesday night, naively thinking that a new era of civility and cooperation had begun. So it was with great dismay that the next morning I fo...

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I was just reading about the growing controversy about voting irregularities in Alaska, stemming from the extraordinarily low number of counted votes in Tuesday's election. See here and here . T...

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I've had an Obama sticker on my car for 2 years because I was convinced the first time that I heard him speak that he was someone truly extraordinary. The campaign he waged to win office was hono...

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Got to our precinct voting location (Shiloh) a bit before opening, and lines were already around the block onto Q Street. It took a little over an hour to cast the ballot--not bad, considering th...

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I've already spouted off about the ANC2C races, but there's another local election that deserves some attention too--maybe more. That's the one for DC council member at large. You get to vote fo...

http://fifthandoh.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-local-election-to-think-about.html

Yesterday evening I volunteered to canvas voters for the Democratic party out in Virginia--a new experience for me. First, I gotta say that the Obama people definitely have their act together. T...

http://fifthandoh.blogspot.com/2008/11/canvassing-for-obama-in-burbs.html

Just in case you have a life and weren't home to see Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, I can report that she didn't do much of anything to rehabilitate her image. In fact, she didn't say or do ...

http://fifthandoh.blogspot.com/2008/10/palin-on-snl.html

Part of my Saturday routine is to go by the Catania Bakery to get their fantastic fresh croissants and bread. This morning when I arrived, there were police outside and the bakery was closed. The...

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Seriously, folks, this is the robocall that the Republican National Committee has authorized and is being used in Virginia right now. I don't know if this sort of crap works, but the mere fact ...

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I stopped by Azi's Cafe (1336 9th St at "O") for lunch today, and learned that she is now offering catering for parties, receptions, and other events. Azi has a new catering menu of choices tha...

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If you live in DC, your presidential vote may not really matter all that much, because we all know who's going to get DC's 3 electoral votes. (BTW, I'm totally in the tank for Obama, in case no o...

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Sarah Palin's PR stunt to exploit her status as self-proclaimed Number One Hockey Mom seems to have backfired when fans greeted her with a chorus of boos in Philadelphia at a Flyers-Rangers game...

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From the Dana Milbank column in today's WaPo: "Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said. "Boooo!" said the crowd. "And, according to the New York Ti...

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This Rolling Stone article, "The Make-Believe Maverick" , is long, but definitely worth the time to read. It has a lot of detail that I was unaware of and makes it very evident both that McCain's...

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Is the presidential race now really between Obama and Palin? Am I wrong, or has McCain just sort of disappeared over the last week? And what happened to all the McCain TV attack ads in the DC mar...

http://fifthandoh.blogspot.com/2008/10/where-are-they-keeping-el-loco.html

Where's the love? We keep hearing that Sarah Palin is the queen of the hop in Alaska, but I'm starting to wonder. Take a look at these terrific blogs on local Alaskan politics: Mudflats and Girl...

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For a horrible moment there, I thought she was going to breastfeed the baby--you know, to really connect with the Hockey Moms out there and maybe give Joe Sixpack a little peek. Sarah Palin's bea...

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Michael Sendar appeared last night at the CCCA meeting to make his pitch for a zoning variance for his notorious derelict property (see posts below). He claimed that he has wanted to develop the ...

http://fifthandoh.blogspot.com/2008/10/holding-your-nose.html

Among the agenda items on the Convention Center Community Association (CCCA) meeting tomorrow, is derelict property owner Michael Sendar, who will report on his plans to develop his "Slum Histori...

http://fifthandoh.blogspot.com/2008/09/sendar-to-appear-at-ccca-meeting-on.html

Oooowhee! Totally mesmerized by the failure of the bailout and watching the stock market drop like a rock. Haven't seen anything like this since the crash during Dubya's first term--scared even t...

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Fratboy cut-ups Dubya and Vladimir getting ready to give that Asian guy a wedgie. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It...

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Sarah Livingston, who writes and distributes her own neighborhood publication The Seventh Streeter, has just published a new issue in which she denounces all of the current ANC commissioners and ...

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I admit it: I'm totally transfixed by the utter lunacy that has seized our country's political and financial spheres. So, where are we now...? John McCain seems to have come unhinged. Here's a m...

http://fifthandoh.blogspot.com/2008/09/el-loco-rides-into-town-guns-blazing.html

In case you thought those first cringe-inducing encounters with actual journalists were just flukes,...oh, what the hell. Just go to Wonkette for the Divine Sarah's latest utterances of random w...

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Whoa, check out the Divine Sarah's response to a really, really hard question from Katie Couric here . She wasn't runner up Miss Alaska for nothing! Here's the transcript of another snippet. W...

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