as it were ...

"to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps

not formally exact though practically right"

if "non sequitur" describes my general thought patterns, then "as it were" perfectly articulates my recall style.



"as it were ..." will serve as my weekly roundup of events that made me go "hmmmm." there's a lot to say in the first installment because i neglected to post for an entire six days.



so then, i bring you "as it were ..."

shame on you jim graham!

left dinner at busboys and poets and observed that the dc traffic and parking laws clearly only apply to us common folks. (for full effect, the following sentence is best read with a cosmo in one hand while the other does the cher hair flip.) the fabulous champagne colored, droptop vw bug with dc council tags bearing the mark of ward 1 council member jim graham was parked with blatant disregard for the fact that the spot was a no parking zone - no driver, no passenger, no hazards. if we can't park there than neither can you mr. graham!

when a questionable idea goes REALLY bad

someone in the fairfax, va county public schools had the stellar idea to quantify student morality. if that weren't enough, this visionary decided that the most valid way to collect these data would be to have teachers individually rate each student.

provocative topic? check!

sound methodology? check check!

BUT WAIT! what about the analysis? yep, got that covered. these forward thinkers chose to disaggregate the data by gender (really?), race (oh no!), ethnicity (please stop!), and disability category (okay enough!).

gender bias, classim, racism come quickly to mind, but you all know that kids with disabilities are my passion - so on that topic i'll contribute my analysis. it's simple really -

a kid with a disability who exhibits questionable behavior? screw morality. it might have something to do with the disability, dumbass ...

can't wait to get to the gaylord conference center at the national harbor!

you'll remember from an earlier post that the new national harbor opened to the wrong kind of fanfare - the lively sound of trumpets was replaced by retching doctors with gastrointestinal maladies. and now? well now, the field mice have heard that this is the place to be and have booked some rooms! something tells me that these two events didn't factor in when the management decided to have a "hard opening."