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Told those kids to keep their silverware out of the socket. Damndest thing I ever saw.

I think the heat is getting to someone.

People wonder why Americans don't save. But if these guys were the ones offering to help, would you?

Taken on April 8th in the back car of a Metro train. It looks like one of the placards that they put in the front car to let people know which line it's on. Except that DC doesn't have--and has never had, to my knowledge--a white line. Very odd.

The first thing to come to my mind, of course, was segregated railway cars, especially since it was four days after the anniversary of the MLK assassination.

Every time I walk by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, I always think: "They used to be in a really fancy, modern office building, but someone talked them out of it."

There aren't a lot of what I consider pretty buildings in DC, outside of the Mall where the monuments and the Capitol building sit. But this building, the Thurgood Marshall Judiciary Building next to Union Station, struck me two nights ago. I don't know if this picture captures the full effect, but I love the trees inside.

Pictured: a display from the United Food and Commercial Workers on the corner of K St and 17th. The number on the left is the total number of US casualties since the beginning of the war in Iraq. On the right, the number of wounded.

The text above "Bar-B-Quing with my Honey" reads "Stay in School."

We are waiting to see the baby panda!

The pandacito is not waiting to see us.

Here is the other cage where the panda is not waiting to see us. Using advanced computer technology, I've placed a circle around the place where, if there were a panda, he would be at maximum adorableness.

This is as close as we got. Some people apparently get paid to watch the pandacito on closed-circuit TV. The rest of us just cry bitterly and then visit Pandafix.