http://www.citypaper.com/columns Baltimore City Paper columns en-us Copyright 2010 Baltimore City Paper http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=19911 Political Animal by Brian Morton: In America, nearly every black person believes in conspiracies. Now that I've gotten that massive generalization out of the way, think about it for a second. No matter how rationalist an African-American you may be, history has already provided plenty of evidence. What was slavery but a conspiracy... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:43:15 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=19858 Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod: So They (and you know who they are) want to make a Walmart in Remington, a neighborhood of Baltimore, U.S.A.,1 and some Concerned Citizens are against it and they have a petition thing on the Internet where you can go and say you are Anti the Walmart.2 Personally, I am more on the laissez-faire3... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:59:20 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=19820 Social Studies by Vincent Williams: I am hypnotized by dancing Predators. About a week ago, I ran across a video on the interwebs showing a group of men in surprisingly authentic-looking Predator costumes doing, like, the Chicago Bears Super Bowl shuffle in what looked like the Predator ship from Predator 2. Now, if the existence of... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:01:09 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=19776 Political Animal by Brian Morton: One thing you learn about politics is that the closer you get to the local level, the harder it is to just talk and not get the job done. Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill codified this in his timeless aphorism, "all politics is local," and nothing makes it more obvious than when 40 inches of... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:03:09 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19763 X-Content by Van Smith: Brennen Jensen, in one of this week's two features, learns bar-room history from the famous matron of Club Charles, Esther Martin: "'Esther did the right thing,' [John] Waters says. "'She changed it from the scariest bar in Baltimore into the coolest.'" In the other feature, Molly Rath's "Education... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=19751 Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod: Wow, that Blizzard was pretty fucking awesome, eh? I think it's over. It's over, right? Man, I mean, first it was kinda like an old Monster Movie where you're waiting and waiting for The Monster to show up, and then KABOOM, errbody was under two feet of snow. I stayed up almost the whole night whil... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:26:38 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=19707 Social Studies by Vincent Williams: About a year ago, my family and I were in Florida for a short business trip. While we were there, on a humble, we went to Disney World for a few days. My then-4-year-old daughter made us promise to bring her back for her birthday, and, being the good parents that we are, my wife and I planned it ou... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:36:10 EST http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19716 X-Content by Van Smith: The Block, Baltimore's downtown adult-entertainment district, takes the stage in a two-story feature package by Van Smith: "Around the Block" and "What's Around the Block." Land deals in Washington Hill involving Baltimore City government and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have neighbors in... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=19682 Political Animal by Brian Morton: Is it any wonder how George W. Bush was able to roll congressional Democrats for eight years? (No--not just six, all eight. Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately taking impeachment off the table was the first sign that the Democrats took all the bullets out of the gun.) If the Democrats in the House of... Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:05:36 EST