Rebel Prince

A heads-up to local Metro riders who take the Red Line (like me): just before 1 p.m. today at the Woodley Park station, an idling train was hit by an empty train. [Twenty] people sustained minor injuries. Part of the Red Line had been closed.

[Update (18:15): Thanks to Tina, who gave me a ride to the Wheaton Metro station, I was able to avoid the affected stations entirely, albeit the long way around. Some service has been restored, but Metro does not expect to be up to normal service in time for the Thursday morning commute. The Post now has a photo of the wreck, which shows part of the empty train car on top of another car. Man, oh man.]

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I was going to write that I didn’t expect any further election announcements soon, at least not in the next several hours, but just now I checked the news again, and there are reports that Kerry will concede. Shit. And I’m probably just as angry about all the state constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage. Ugh.

The bottom line is you and I keep going the best we know how. I know that sounds folksy and trite, but short of leaving—I don’t know about moving to Canada, but moving back to California at least, which has been part of my life plan all along, is looking more and more tempting—what else can we do but persevere?

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