‘THE BRO CODE !!’
courtesy of ‘shym0n’

I’ve been kind of underground for the last week as the ol’ day job went into annual conference mode and I was working 12 hour days for a week and a half. But that’s over now and I’m catching up on all the stuff I missed on the Internet during that time. John’s post about Spider Kelly’s rebirth as a bro-haven reminded me that BYT preserved possibly my favorite Craigslist housing posting ever: The 6BR Bro-Palace.

It’s clearly a joke post, but the quantity and variety of bro-related puns, dare I say, the brocabulary, in this post causes me to want to raise a protein shake in honor of the writer. I think “Temple to Broseidon” is my favorite.

‘Women’s Room Sign’
courtesy of ‘mrkathika’

Here’s an interesting little piece of potty humor that doesn’t involve having a dirty mind.

There’s a lack of women’s restrooms in our government buildings. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee seek to end this potty drought by introducing the “Potty Parity Act” bill today. The bill requires federal buildings of the future and buildings leased by the government to have a 1:1 ratio of men’s to women’s restrooms.

The bill’s lead sponsor, Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) told WaPo that a lack of restrooms in our government buildings has become an issue because these buildings were constructed long before masses of women entered the federal workforce. According to Towns, some women have even suffered work-related problems and been fired as a result of their inability to take the time necessary to address health or medical concerns.

The addition of more women’s restrooms would aid the effort to help halt these uncessary women’s health concerns in the federal workplace.

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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’

One of the side effects of finally knowing where I’m going to live at the end of next month is that I’m now paying a lot more attention to news stories involving my future Council member, Harry Thomas of Ward 5. Mike DeBonis reports in the City Paper this week that Councilman Thomas was instrumental in steering money toward certain nonprofit programs in the Ward, and argues that while the grants weren’t made through the earmark process, the fact that they weren’t competitively bid makes them earmarks in spirit, even while Council Chair Vincent Gray is banning earmarks in an effort to clean up the corruption in the process.

While agreeing with DeBonis that the grants should have gone through the normal bid process to keep everything above-board and without the appearance of preferential treatment, I continue to think it’s a pretty disgraceful state of affairs that we have a situation where a member of the Council can’t provide an opinion on some anti-gang programs in his Ward (which, you may have noticed, has a bit of a crime problem) because a different member of the Council seems to have corruption and grift trailing in his wake wherever he goes.

‘Nacho #9’
courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’

Oh — and in case you’ve already forgotten due to your massive St. Paddy’s day celebrating — SoberRides are available today.

Call: 1-800-200-TAXI.

Rides are available from now until 4 a.m.

So be safe — call.