December 2011
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Working Lunch 12/30/11 - Media Stalwarts Make News...
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INTHECAPITAL’S WORKING LUNCH: Here’s some stuff to make you smarter/less bored while you eat your lunch alone at your cubicle. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there.
Greetings from Hattiesburg, Mississippi! The...
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"Anti-Washington" Rick Perry Has Been Dropping...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
If there’s one thing that Rick Perry is known for (besides the many spoof videos his poorly received social media campaign has spawned), it’s that he is not a fan of Washington D.C.
We’re referring, of course to accusations like this:
Wall Street and Washington, D.C. have been in bed together way too long…The metro region of Washington is...
Working Lunch 12/29/11 - Why, Oh Why, Do We Let...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
www.inthecapital.com is a Streetwise Media Property set to launch in early 2012. follow @inthecapital , @cwarzel , &@carlpierre for the view from inside DC.
INTHECAPITAL’S WORKING LUNCH: Here’s some stuff to make you smarter/less bored while you eat your lunch alone at your cubicle. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there.
Good Afternoon...
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Local Powerball Winner is Experiencing Willy Wonka...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
Out in the expansive wilderness that is Rosenwald, Maryland there is a man/woman/child sitting on $125 million dollars. That is, a $125 million dollar powerball ticket.
$125 million dollars. I will pause and let those words roll around your mouth a little bit longer.
The ticket was purchased on Christmas Eve at Wesley’s Restaurant, Cocktail Lounge and Liquor...
Lifestyles of the Rich and (Sometimes) Heinous
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
What does your home say about you? The New York Times’ Home section released photos of the GOP hopefuls’ abodes so that we can make unsubstantiated judgements. What a country!
Michelle Bachmann- Stillwater, Minn
Do you see the amber waves of grain littering the yard? Goddammit, it’s just so American. I lived in Kansas City for a couple of years...
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How Social Media Ruled our Lives in 2011 [Huge...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
As we come to the end of 2011, it’s important to wistfully reflect upon your year and realize how much time in your life has been wasted on Social Media via an infograph. So take a quick pause from stalking that person on Facebook, hold off on tweeting about how you found a hair in your muffin this morning, and take a look at a few staggering metrics and...
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Thoughts on Rick Santorum's Terrifying Surge in...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Man, it sure is easy to poke fun of these GOP candidates fighting for the nomination…that is, until they actually become relevant. And become relevant he has, according to new polls (which, who knows, could actually mean nothing…gah! we just don’t know) which have the former Pennsylvania senator in 3rd place in the race to the impending...
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INFOGRAPHIC MAKES INCOME INEQUALITY LOOK PRETTY!...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
So what if the New York Times ran an exhaustive, almost 2000 word story on the widening income gap between Congress and the average folks? That story is full of words. Words like “constituents”, “net worth”, and “Moody’s Analytics”. Gross. That’s not what you want. You’re busy. You have better things to do than...
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Newt Drops In Iowa Polls, Goose May Be Cooked
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
I couldn’t resist.
Too soon??
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Santorum Rises to 3rd in CNN'S Iowa Poll, Wears...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Gloves come off, sweater vest comes on.
Ka-boom.
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RON PAUL TO MEDIA: GET OFF MY LAWN!
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Ron Paul is finally getting the media attention his supporters complained for and yet he’s now being as cantankerous as ever.
This summer, Jon Stewart noticed what Paul supporters have complained about for years, referring to the Texas Representative as, “the 13th floor of a hotel” when it comes to media coverage. Fox News really seems to dislike...
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Working Lunch 12/28/11: Let's Get Weird in Iowa
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
INTHECAPITAL’S WORKING LUNCH: Here’s some stuff to make you smarter/less bored while you eat your lunch alone at your cubicle. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there. We read it so you don’t have to.
Good Afternoon from a blustery Washington DC. Do you hear that? Oh, you don’t? Ah, yes. That’s because nearly every journalist in...
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“At heart, I am still a happy four-year-old who gets up every morning hoping to...”
– Newt Gingrich (via peterfeld)
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WORKING LUNCH 12/27/11: HAPPY HOUR EDITION
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By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
INTHECAPITAL’S WORKING LUNCH: Here’s some stuff to make you...
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“Get your ass in line. I can’t do this job unless you’re behind me.”
– - House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), July 2011
Kinda sums up the year for congress, eh?
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Working Lunch: Links While You Eat At Your Desk
By Charlie Warzel/ @cwarzel
INTHECAPITAL’S WORKING LUNCH: Here’s some stuff to make you smarter/less bored while you eat your lunch alone at your cubicle. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there.
NOTHING SAYS ‘HOLIDAY SEASON’ LIKE A GOOD OLE FASHIONED CONGRESSIONAL STANDOFF! Good afternoon, DC. You’re almost there. Unless you work for a totalitarian...
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DC Hits Puberty: We are the Fastest Growing...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
Do the streets of the District seem more packed than usual? Is the line at your Starbucks just a little longer? Does the migraine-inducing traffic seem a little worse than you remember? Well rest assured that it is not just you. What you are experiencing is the recent population boom to the nation’s capital.
According to a recent 2011 estimate by the Census Bureau, DC...
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Working Lunch: Links While You Eat At Your Desk
By Charlie Warzel/ @cwarzel
INTHECAPITAL’S WORKING LUNCH: Here’s some stuff to make you smarter/less bored while you eat your lunch alone at your cubicle. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there.
ONE YEAR UNTIL DOOMSDAY…or so the Mayans would have you believe. According to a select few who take their cues from the Mayan Calendar, we have exactly one year until fire and...
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National Menorah Lighting Ceremony Tonight, Xmas...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
As most people know, it’s easy to grow weary of the dizzying over-stimulation that is Christmas. From the horrible Hallmark jingles that seem impossible to forget to the throngs of shoppers fighting to the death for a singing Elmo doll, it’s easy to catch what I call “Christmas Fatigue”. Christmas Fatigue has one sure-fire remedy.
Other holidays.
There is a...
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InTheCapital's Working Lunch: Links to Read While...
By Charlie Warzel/ @cwarzel
INTHECAPITAL’S WORKING LUNCH: Here’s some stuff to make you smarter while you eat your lunch alone at your cubicle. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there.
You’re almost there, folks. If you’re lucky you’re staring down a short week (no work on Friday!!) and hopefully we can help make it fly by. Hope you’re all gearing up...
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DC Ranks High for Vainest Cities in the US
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
I will be the first to admit that I think I am a decently attractive guy (I’ve heard the word stunning thrown around before), but then again I’m a firm believer in being confident with your looks. What I was unaware of is that a lot of other DC locals seem to share my perspective on having confidence in their facade. According to a recent LivingSocial poll, where DC...
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Breaking: Washington Examiner Endorses Romney (h/t...
By Charlie Warzel/ @cwarzel
Their reasoning: He can beat Obama and Gingrich can’t.
The Washington Examiner believes Romney can defeat Obama, but Gingrich cannot. And Romney the businessman is far better suited to the nation’s highest office — by temperament, experience, and cast of mind — than Gingrich the consummate Washington insider. By fits and starts over the...
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Road Rage in DC is on a Whole Other Level
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
As most DC residents will tell you, horrible driving is a characteristic of the city that seems almost intrinsic at this point. In fact, one can say there seems to be an over abundance of drivers in the capital who are either oblivious to the rules of the road or are too distracted in the car to be effectively safe to others. The severity of the status quo on poor...
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What We Shared on the Web in 2011
By Charlie Warzel/ @cwarzel
So, it turns out we use the internet to share things. A lot of things to be exact. Clearspring, a Washington, DC-based company shows us exactly what was passed around the internet this year and just how it was shared with some fancy looking graphics to boot.
Clearspring owns the sharing platform ‘AddThis’, which you’ve almost certainly scene if...
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Why Ben Smith to BuzzFeed is a Big Deal
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Something important happened today in media. Very early this morning, Politico’s original blogger and blueprint for online political journalism, Ben Smith, announced his hire as the Editor-in-Chief of BuzzFeed. If you fancy yourself a news junkie or care about media, this is some pretty big news.
The internet is a swirling torrent of ceaseless media and...
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DC Metro: An Epic Fail with Numbers to Prove It
By Carl Pierre/ @carlpierre
How does one quantify awfulness? How can you quantify every commuter who has dealt with a rude WMATA employee, quantify the number of times you’ve had to sprint up a broken pair of escalators as a metro repair man ate a sandwich, the number of times a mother has had to drag a stroller up a flight of stairs due to elevator outages? Well apparently there is a...
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DC Bars Make the Cut for Top 50 in the US
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
It has always been somewhat speculative to rank the quality of DC’s bar scene to those of other cities with a better-known repertoire of unique bars and renowned mixologists such as New York or San Francisco, but it seems as if the District’s aspirations to make it to the big leagues have finally come to fruition.
Two DC area bars, the Passenger (Mt. Vernon...
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Rick Perry, Terrible Debater, Turns Down Debate
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
File this one under ‘Good Decisions’, Gov. Perry! We’re pretty certain that file could use some more material, anyway.
In a not-so-shocking turn of events, Rick Perry has declined Donald Trump’s invitation to the Newsmax Presidential debate, which will be coming to you live from Ion Television! Now, we can’t believe we’re saying...
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iPhone 4S Raises Crime in DC
by Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
Imagine purchasing a brand new iPhone 4S; it’s beautiful design, it’s incredible updated hardware with speech pattern recognition. Then imagine you’re walking with your new phone down a street in DC, and as you take a pause to bring the phone up to your face to give Siri a command it is literally snatched right out of your hands as the speedy assailant flees down the...
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Help Under-Privileged Youth Learn to Code This...
by Charlie Warzel /@cwarzel
The White House just got behind it, and perhaps you should too. Last night at DC’s Tech Meetup, iStrategyLabs CEO and tech guru, Peter Corbett did something unusual and enlisted the hundreds in attendance for their help and donations. The cause, he said, was just too appealing.
He was referring to a DC-based startup called CodeNow, which has a simple mission: to...
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You're All Sitting on a Goldmine, Here!
by Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
As we found our seats in the pews of Sixth & I’s historic synagogue for our very first DC Tech Meetup, Charlie and I could not help but notice the ironic clash between the rustic aesthetics of this religious sanctuary where the meeting was being held and the heavily technology-related event that was happening in it. Realizing that this was truly our first...
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Is the DC Startup Scene Taking it Back to the...
by Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
If you’re not paying attention to Washington DC’s tech scene, you may want to start. While most have been busy paying attention to the District’s political gridlock, a vibrant tech and innovation culture has been quietly taking root. Perhaps until now.
Last week DC made headlines in the tech world with The Revolution Growth Fund’s creation of a $450 million...