DC Blogs Not Worth Noting

The holiday season is upon us again. And with this comes the winter version of the summer doldrums: the DC blogosphere reaches its lowest point since late August. It is that time when people fighting over plastic hamsters makes national news. And that's actually among the better things to read about. Locally, the situation is far more grim.

I present you with my award for "most useless posts in a vast wasteland of uselessness."

Contestant #1

First up is today's Prince of Petworth post entitled, Dear POP: What to do when the express line is violated?"

That's right. The crisis today in Columbia Heights is that of a frustrated shopper who gets in line at the "15 items or less" checkout at Safeway, and is horrified to discover that someone in front of them is clearly, unabashedly, checking out with more than 15 items. Perhaps even as many as 25!

The Prince of Petworth has officially become "What Really Grinds My Gears." Except personally, I think "not being able to find the droids I'm looking for" is a bigger crisis than people abusing the 15 items or less checkout.

Anyway, if you want to talk about the real story here, it's the fact that "15 items or less" is not proper English. It's 15 items or fewer, you moron!! It even says that on the sign in the photograph you took!

Contestant #2

DCist, not to be left out of the useless post-Thankgsiving-post party, decided to keep on top of that story that is so last week about the White House party crashers. They've been busily stalking the Salahis facebook page all weekend, and unearthed this damning picture of those infamous reality show rejects posing with Adrian Fenty.

I think most people stopped caring about this last Friday. Now a day late and a dollar short, it's just another 30 seconds of my life wasted.

And The Winner Is...

The only thing more useless than these posts, and the general lack of anything interesting in the news?

That's right, this post: a post about useless posts.

Back to your boring lives, drones!