... I saw the bed bug sticker and yeah, was battling them this summer. Love the mosaic, this was off the McDonalds on Howard.

I saw a guy riding around on a bird scooter smoking a blunt with no shirt and no shoes, inside that McDonalds.

I had a bed bug summer too 🤮

Summer of Bed Bugs?

These benches give Baltimore an endless resource: irony.

I remember when that asinine "Baltimore is the Best City in America" slogan came out. I e-mailed the mayor's office with my reservations and the reply was "He was thinking about "the Best City in the World""

I think that it's just one of Democrats' pathetic attempts to emulate Republican assholes. The latter are natural bullshitters and if they're going to bullshit, they know what they're doing. They also tend to be the foot-in-the-door salesman type, and that's sort of what this dumb slogan is: state something loudly and aggressively, and you can change reality, and transform the flawed product you're selling into a fantastic one.

It's also part of the alpha male winner schtick the Republicans hype. Think like a winner!! You will be one!! And, to be fair, if you're the 600 pound gorilla, but you're overcome with self doubts, you may well lose the fight with the orangutan. But you're still the 600 pound gorilla. You're not a hamster, which will lose the fight with the orangutan no matter the attitude, even if you're Sid Vicious the Hamster, who bites.

It's all been dynamite for the Republicans, so Democrats, such as Martin O'Malley, try it themselves. They just don't have the knack for it.

Thanks for the history lesson... I live for irony so that's why I like it here. Didn't the slogan use to be "The City That Reads" - that's so hard to imagine... who the hell reads anyway? :O