After a speech last night at the University of Colorado, former Attorney General John Ashcroft took questions from an audience of skeptical students, professors and several war protesters. The first question, Think Progress recalls, came from a woman who asked if Ashcroft would be willing to be subjected to waterboarding. “The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to do them to me, I would do,” Ashcroft is quoted as replying.

................................................................................................................................................................................................
comment | digg this | reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalink

Several Tenleytown NIMBYs are taking to the Web to indicate that they don’t want anyone moving near their Metro stop and don’t want any improvements made to their neighborhood.

“Tenleyites are fighting for something real and important,” one blog commenter said in a recent post about the development of a school in the neighborhood. “They have a community that is anchored and integrated by public institutions. They don’t want to be Friendship Heights, where commerce is king. More power to them!”

But not everyone is convinced that the progress would be such a bad thing: “Tenleytown NIMBYs annoy me,” another commenter said. “They need to wake up and realize they live along the major corridor between Georgetown and Bethesda…not in some sleepy suburban hamlet.”

Meanwhile, amidst the debate, there have long been rumors that an entire section of Tenleytown is secretly slated for demolition to make way for a Wal-Mart.

................................................................................................................................................................................................
comments (7) | digg this | reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalink

War protester - and professor! - Desiree Farooz tried to seduce Condoleezza Rice with bloody red hands on Capitol Hill today. But that’s no way to get in her pants.

................................................................................................................................................................................................
comments (6) | digg this | reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalink

A new guerrilla group based in Washington, D.C. wants “all the chumps, douche-bags, yuppies, and stripey-shirt imported assholes of this town” to know that kickball is for players, not posers.

The “Anti Yuppie Kickball Guerilla Front” advocates “all ridiculous direct action and pranks pursuant to the collapse of kickball for young professionals in the greater Washington, DC area,” claiming they have sat idle for too long.

“Already they make life in our great capital barely tolerable and now through solidarity their ham-headed presence is flaunted like a fish smack to the face during any afternoon stroll,” according to the group’s Web site. “Like a sickening monochrome slime these homogenized social stamp-outs will spread influence through the Capital region until life here is indistinguishable from living inside a frat-house wrapped in Old Navy clothing all tucked inside a giant Walmart.”

Already their “agents move unseen through cursed kickball leagues and our actions are the stuff of hushed whispers, nightmares.. and hopes” They claim: “Our numbers are vast. Our skills infinite. Our power cannot be contained.”

Douche-y kickballers, you have been warned.

................................................................................................................................................................................................
comments (1) | digg this | reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalink

Will Loretta Sanchez get one of her sparkly suits dirty? Will David Vitter find another Wendy to love during the rally? Will Debbie Stabenow be forced to stop eating?

Stay tuned!

................................................................................................................................................................................................
comments (1) | digg this | reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalink