Losing the Diner and Chuck in the same day may put me in a foul mood for, well, all of February.
“Capital City Diner has been an oasis for us, and one of my DC Talismans, a place that I go when I need to feel that something in this world is in perfect order. The letter up on their website cites rising costs and nearby competition from a national chain that rhymes with Lenny’s. The end of the Diner may well be attributable to Harry Thomas Jr., who worked hard to bring the chain restaurant to Trinidad after seeing the Diner thrive. While perhaps bringing more business to Bladensburg Road near Trinidad is good for the local economy, something Thomas wasn’t exactly known for, his last good act might have killed the thing I loved most in the District.”
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“When courts decide for same-sex marriage, those who oppose it say it should be the choice of legislatures. When legislatures decide it, those who oppose it say it should be the choice of the voters. I have no doubt whatsoever that if the voters decide it, those who oppose it would be in the courts trying to stop it. The folks who oppose same-sex marriage don’t really want any one to say it’s okay. They just want it not to exist.”
Cory Booker Gets It Right – Whatever
Click through and watch Cory Booker be awesome.
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Baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from a glassmaking factory. Indiana, August 1908.
More photos of child labor in the States here.
My grandfather Bridge was a child laborer, working in a paper pulp plant, if memory serves. It was not all that long ago that Foxconn was here.
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A lot of people have asked for my take on The New York Times piece yesterday about the true cost of making Apple products in China. Let me first just say that it’s an important piece full of good reporting by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. Parts of it are very sad — sickening, really.
But…
I read Duhigg and Barboza this morning, on my shiny MacBook Air. It felt terrible and wrong. I worked all day with iPads and iPhones and macs. It felt right, but also wrong. This is a terrible place to be - loving your devices, but hating how they’re made. This short piece is worth your time & attention, because Foxconn is where so many great things are made, in horrible situations. It’s pretty terrible.
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“All it took to transform sobbing, frustrated anger into human compassion is one thoughtful question from a concerned father. I love that. It’s human nature to get angry when things don’t go our way; everyone does. But as evolved humans, we learn to get past that, and quickly move on to understanding, patience and basic respect for our fellow man.
Owen just learned that lesson at age 7. As Twitter showed us after the Kyle Williams incident, a lot of people still haven’t. Maybe this letter can teach them.”
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Purrfect Prank of the Day: Redditor frackyou’s little cousin posted his phone number to Facebook along with a status update informing everyone that he was bored.
Cat Facts to the rescue.
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This made me laugh so much harder than I should admit to anyone.
Oh my God, the giggling I am doing right now.](http://i.imgur.com/rsQ93.png)
Purrfect Prank of the Day: Redditor frackyou’s little cousin posted his phone number to Facebook along with a status update informing everyone that he was bored.
Cat Facts to the rescue.
[reddit.]
This made me laugh so much harder than I should admit to anyone.
Oh my God, the giggling I am doing right now.
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“The leader of the crew believed he was under surveillance, and Martin made them leave their phones in the car for safety. He recalled the phones with disgust. “They had all smart phones, and I told them: Bad fucking idea. You have to scale down two generations, at least. There’s too much information on a smart phone.” That’s where Martin could help.”
The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
If I were ever to break bad…
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In a phone call from the Capitol immediately after the State of the Union address last night, President Obama informs John Buchanan that his daughter Jessica, a kidnapped aid worker, was rescued by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia earlier that evening.
Official White House photo by Pete Souza
BAMF.
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“In the end, Paterno leaves a portrait of contrasts. He was a coach fired by the board of trustees, the same board that now wants to honor him. He was an academic respected on his own campus in an era when the separation between faculty and athletics has never been greater. Ultimately, Joe Paterno, after decades of what had appeared to be the most straightforward and laudable of careers, leaves a complicated legacy, an epic tragedy seemingly penned by one of the writers whom Paterno himself so adored.”
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