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Boris Johnson puts an end to the Circle Line Party

Not much fun, are you, Boris? But I will admit that he has an awesome first name. And how can you not love the guy's hairstyle?

Last Call on the London Tube:

London’s new mayor, Boris Johnson, left, said that he was banning alcohol on the city’s public transportation system, effective next month, in an effort to “end the problem of drunken and intimidating behavior on the Tube.” Some subway workers said they welcomed the move as a way to change the unpleasant late-night atmosphere in the subways. But Bob Crow, general secretary of the union representing transportation employees, said the plan had been put into place too hastily and would be difficult to enforce. “Perhaps the mayor will come out with his underpants on over his trousers like Superman one Saturday to show us how it should be done,” he told Agence France-Presse.

When I first moved to the UK, I was pretty shocked to see people eating fast food and downing cans of beer on the Tube. It was a big change from the DC metro system, where they arrest 12 year olds for eating french fries in the stations.

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Biscuits with Honey
Cindy
Csaba's Flickr
Defined by Location
Dude, Where's the Beach?
EJ Takes Life
fabulous just fabulous
incredibly true misadventures of the gypsy & the jew
Kim's work blog
The Lonely Eater
Monsoon
My Life in Sin City
News to Hughes
Nick
Notes On The Day
The Cincysundevil Made Me Do It
Will’s Title is Too Long
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Russia & the former USSR:

The Accidental Russophile
Baku News
Chernobyl and Eastern Europe
Chernobyl Children's Project International
Copydude
English Russia
Goodbye Baby Lenin
Johnson's Russia List
Kaukasus
Notes from Україна
The Oil and The Glory
Registan
Robert Amsterdam
RusEnergy
Russian Oil & Gas
Russian Pipeliners
Scraps of Moscow
Sean's Russia Blog
Siberian Light
Vilhelm Konnander
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White Sun of the Desert

Energy:

Alexander's Oil and Gas Connections
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Environmental Economics
The Oil Drum
R-Squared Energy Blog
This Week in Petroleum
The Watt
WSJ Energy Roundup

Washington DC:

DC Blogs
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Metroblogging DC
The Heights they are a changin'
why.i.hate.dc

Politics:

Democracy in America
Free Exchange
get your war on
Political Cartoons
Wonkette

Sports:

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All Climbing
Baseball Musings
Chronicles of the Lads
Confessions of a Novice Surfer
Daily Bread
Halos Heaven
League of Angels
On Frozen Blog
Pearly Gates
Surfrider Foundation
WannaSurf
Your Daily Donkey

Middle East:

american short-timer
Back to Iraq
The Calm Before the Sand
Dan in the Desert
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone
Michael Yon in Iraq

London:

An American in London
Evening Standard Headlines
Going Underground
Londonist

Travel:

Belly Button Window
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BootsnAll Travel Network
Gadling
Knife Tricks
Stuck in Customs

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Google Maps Mania
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The Great Taco Hunt
Operation Eden
Passive Aggressive Notes
PostSecret
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Wellington Grey
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