Or, if previous experiences with crowds are anything to go by, at the very least loses all common sense and intelligence, and becomes totally oblivious to their surroundings.
Yep, we have the Pope coming to visit. Staying true to form, as with any time something memorable occurs, everyone’s running around like headless chickens.
Now, admittedly, the DC area tends to run around like headless chickens when more than 3 snowflakes fall, 5 raindrops fall, or some “professional” sportsdrone we’re supposed to have heard of shows up, but this time it’s the worst example of decapitated poultry behavior I’ve ever seen – even down to the “most powerful man in the world” (George W Bush, allegedly) playing chauffeur to the guy.
It must be one of the few times something has made its way across the Atlantic with the UK coming first.
Over there, it’s called Happy Slapping – video taping assaults at random for distribution, usually using cell phones.
Most people by now are familiar with the latest US emulation of this particular brand of nastyness, especially with the widely publicized case of 8 teenagers in Florida. There are other cases, but they all have one thing in common – the results of these attacks are filmed, then posted to the ‘Net.
Either something is in the tap-water-from-a-spring PR drones in the UK are drinking, or an intrinsically abject failure of intelligence is coming to the fore, but they seem to be losing their “magic” touch of late.
“We were adware, not spyware, honest” Phorm was caught with its hand in the cookie jar (no pun intended) recently, making some rather intriguing “clarifications” of the Wikipedia entry about the company.
Having read the differences between the two versions (pre and post PR drone assault), I can understand why Phorm might want to “clarify” their entry. Parts of the entry they “clarified” include
We live next to a wonderful park, beside a branch of the Anacostia River as it wends its way down towards DC and environs.
Until recently, it’s been impossible for us to use that park to get to the main road leading into town though.
The reason? This bridge over one of the drainage ravines to the Anacostia itself. The bridge is old, too narrow for wheelchairs, and has a virtual step up at either end where it meets the ground.
Woohoo!!! Baltimore American Indian Center (BAIC) has posted details about their next powwow.
Happily, it’s going to be at Patterson Park in Baltimore again this year. It’s a wonderful place – not to mention we know we can reach it in chairs 
I have pictures from last year’s powwow up on my Picasa pictures page. We’re looking forwards to meeting everyone again this year!
Now I just need to start working on regalia for the Tank and Pat’s new chair
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Blogs are hopping today it seems with stories about Judge Marvin Arrington Sr in Atlanta, Georgia.
The judge is reported to have ordered everyone in his courtroom who wasn’t black to leave, and then gave the blacks present a “lecture”1.
For some reason, everyone has decided that the judge (who is black himself) was racist in doing so.
I disagree with them, though.
It’s common knowledge that a judge controls his courtroom, end of story. The judge was totally within his rights to exclude anyone for any reason. In the courtroom, the judge is law, after a fashion.
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