"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

                --Archilochus

Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."

Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."

Albert A. Gore, Jr.:
"An incontinent brute."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."

Friends of GF's Sons:
"Is that really your dad?"

Kickball Girl:
"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."

Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."




I'm an
Alcoholic Yeti
in the
TTLB Ecosystem



Monday, January 09, 2006

Almost Missed It!

What with the Christmas and New Year holidays, our newspaper reading was largely limited to the slow-cooker recipe section. (And that's turning out just fine, thank you for asking.) As a consequence, we missed the fact that former District of Columbia Mayor-For-Life Marion Barry (currently a member of the City Council) was robbed at gunpoint on New Year's Day. The Washington Post reports:
Barry, 69, was held up in his kitchen about 9:30 p.m. Monday by two assailants who minutes earlier had helped him carry groceries from his car to his third-floor apartment in Southeast Washington. They pointed a gun at Barry's face and stole his wallet, which contained more than $200, his driver's license and two credit cards, police said.
What's really quite bizarre is this:
"There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend," Barry said at an afternoon news conference in which he described the robbery in detail. "I don't advocate what they do. I advocate conditions to change what they do. I was a little hurt that this betrayal did happen."
Do tell.

Those damned gun-toting hoodlums just have no respect anymore. In times past, they'd have moved on to some more deserving victim. (A less deserving victim?)


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