Eliza’s father died. Mark Frauenfelder gives an appropriate eulogy, here.
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Arlington works – last Monday night, I told Arlington County that there was a problem with a portion of the road that runs near my place, and is marked as a bike route. 8 days later, they’re out there and filling 24 potholes. Color me impressed.
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I well and truly hate poison ivy. There is no good purpose of that scourge on this planet.
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On Elliot Spitzer: yes, he should resign. But really, you GOP folk, you have exactly *zero* room to make moralizing pronouncements on it.  And really, this screwup strikes me as something as should be mostly dealt with between him and his wife. Still, I find it somewhat appropriate that Spitzer was snagged by the financial transaction rules he himself pushed into place.
DT
as my boss’s wife said – ‘he should have just found an intern instead’