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DC Follies

In the "You-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up" department, the Washington Post reports this morning that former uber-corrupt mayor Marion Barry was robbed at gunpoint in his apartment yesterday by two local toughs who he’d asked to help carry his groceries into his house. Barry said he was "hurt" by the robbery, because: "There is sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend."

Apparently Barry never heard the old saying about there being no honor among thieves.

In other DC area news, a Montgomery County judge has ruled that "mooning," while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland. The legislature better get right on that one, lest a new crome wave of mooning breaks out.

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What’s that old saw about a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged?

Yes, I had meant to mention that remark, but ran out of time--busy morning getting ready to listen to Al Gore.

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