Geez, even a non-sports columnist sees a winner

Marc Fisher, metro columnist of the Washington Post, on describing the neighborhood into which the Obama's are about to move...

"The District is young, multiracial, brainy (even the cabbies are public radio listeners), a place where wine (No. 1 in the nation in per capita consumption) beats beer (we're middle of the pack). Like Chicagoans, we love politics and sports, though our local franchises, with the curious exception of the hockey team, have long been infected with an incurable virus that wipes out the gene for winning games. Not to worry -- we don't think it's contagious."

We're hoping it's not contagious, anyway. Now, if he could only be convinced to come to a hockey game...