D.C. Sinkhole Provides Comic Relief For Weary Vatican Watchers
"There are five better sinkholes than that in Brooklyn alone." – New Yorkers living in DC.
— Ryan Avent (@ryanavent) March 12, 2013
It's tough to imagine a news cycle more exciting than waiting for a gaggle of old men in white dresses who are quietly thinking about consensus (and decades-long organized coverups of global pedophilia rings operated by the Catholic Church), but a miracle has occurred in Washington, D.C., to turn our attention away from the Vatican: There is a sinkhole in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. We know, we know, How could anyone tell?
The reaction has been as fast as it has been snide.
DC IS a sinkhole. MT @majchrowitz Now DC has a sinkhole. DC police report large sinkhole in 1900 block of BiltmoreStNW 25ft deep & expanding
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) March 12, 2013
Ha ha, you get it, because of fiscal socialism?! This was tweeted by a person who spends literally all her time thinking and blogging and tweeting about what happens in D.C. Let this be a lesson to our younger readers: Do what you love, not what you hate!
It's a big day for sinkholes (Illinois, DC) and this week's @newyorker is ON IT—David Owen: Florida’s sinkhole crisis nyr.kr/ZnrTSE
— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) March 12, 2013
Sorry, Silvia, but that's the wrong sinkhole. Florida IS a sinkhole, amirite?
Can I make a stinkhole joke about Michelle Malkin?
I have tutoring tonight 2 blocks from the sinkhole, I am planning on going and checking it out!
Also, the AlertDC thing they sent out stated that the sinkhole was 25 ft deep, which I (and clearly many other people) read as 25 ft across, and therefore the photos on Prince of Petworth were anti-clamatic to say the least.
@cherrispryte I WENT AND WALKED BY THE SINKHOLE, AND THEY HAD A BIG WOOD FLAT OVER IT AND IT WAS THE MOST ANTICLIMATIC THING EVER.
But it was a nice walk and sunny and pretty out so not a total wash.
I just hope it's deep enough to provide adequate cover during a drive-by shooting, but no so deep that a drunken college student might fall to his death after a night out. (These are also things that happened in DC recently, am I doing this right?)
If some cigarette butts from 1998 come gurgling out in front of #1939 Biltmore, those are mine, and I apologize.