News I Missed This Week

The inside of Delta "I Was Crazy Before Crazy Was Cool" Burke's house looks just like mine.




















The Clinton's think Chelsea is still 12 years old and apparently no one on their staff as ever checked out the online Urban Dictionary or watched that new network MTV.


















Kelli Pickler may not be smarter than a 5th grader but she was pretty funny interviewing football players before the Super Bowl.

"Do you think he knows somebody put GAY on the back of his jersey?"



Jimbo has found my long lost cousin Fedde.














DC's "Mayor for Life" endorses Obama. Mayor McSpeedy has also thrown his hat into the ring for Obama. Whew! How many months until election day?

Meters Made!

DC joins the rest of the zoneless world as Mayor McSpeedy scores another victory and announces the new fares for metered DC cabs today. The much reviled and abused zone system is as dead as my social life as of April 6, 2008.

The changes include a $3 base charge for passengers and an additional 25-cent charge for every one-sixth mile after the first one-sixth mile. The maximum fare for any trip starting and ending in the District will be $18.90. Sounds fair to me!

As part of the mayor's plan, additional fees for rush hour travel and that ridiculous fee for additional passengers will be eliminated. The meter system reduces the additional fare during a snow emergency to 25 percent compared to the outrageous 200 percent under the outgoing zone system.

Predictably there are already threats of a strike from cabbies. Bring it on buds! Maybe your replacements are already in the backlog of nearly 1,600 driver applications and will be DC residents with cabs that are kept in good shape, have working heating and cooling systems and interiors that don't smell like a week old chili half-smoke.