It’s from the Times, but it looks like DC is banning the sale of tall boys in parts of the District.
“If we can’t buy single beers, it’s going to [hurt] us,” said the 47-year-old woman, who called herself Hope. “Can we buy a six-pack for $6 when we ain’t got but a dollar?” … (M)erchants have until Nov. 14 to sell off their stock of 24-ounce cans known as “tall boys” and 40-ounce bottles known as “40s.” After that, no individual beer container of less than 70 ounces will be sold in Ward 4. …(T)he owners of Ward 4’s mom-and-pop convenience stores — which sell the bulk of single beers — expect the ban will hurt their bottom line. “I’m not feeling good because our sales are 40 [percent] to 50 percent single beers,” said Teshome Chekole, 42, owner of Town & Country Market on Upshur Street NW.
“We used to have people hang around that corner all the time, and we don’t have that anymore,” said Miss West, 37. “I miss them, though. They were nice drunks.” … Miss Anderson (a retired school librarian) called the single-beer ban a “yuppie thing.”
Continuing my inappropriate love for Pastis, here’s a bit from Sunday’s Pearls
I checked. It is too late to change my vote, and a vote for a fictional character is not counted or reported.
Kerry supporters hassle GOP early voters in Florida.
<humor>More proof that there’s someone out there controlling the vast left wing media empire:</humor>
Darby Conley (Who, BTW, has been suspiciously silent during the Sox’ run this fall) is clearly colluding with NPR on the content in his strip. Exhibit A, last week’s series with Satchel Pooch doing “doga”, which is apparently yoga for dogs:
He did, no lie, an entire week featuring Satchel’s attempts to master doga. I thought it was brilliant, satire along the lines of The Onion or ScrappleFace. At least I thought it was satire until I heard George Bodarky on NPR. I honestly had to pull into someone’s driveway until I stopped laughing and could drive home. Stories like this are almost enough to convince me that some people actually may have too much money.
My question, now – What’s the lead time on an NPR story? Did someone read last Friday’s strip, die laughing, google “doga” and find out that it was a no-crap, real-deal thing, and speed the item into production? If so, WSUF may be getting an extra couple of bucks.
