Ric Kahn did a piece in the Globe about places in the city that are fighting the good fight against rude behavior, such as public cussing and talking on the cell phone while ordering coffee. Hearing the F-bomb in public doesn't give Bostonist the vapors. This is a city, and what would a city be like without F-bombs? But someone talking on a cell phone while ordering coffee or a sandwich deserves to have her......

DCist saw the sign. Our friends in Washington have a little reminder that tells them about the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict in 2003. Today at M.I.T. Dr. Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins talks about his study that attempts to quantify the number of civilians killed during the conflict. The study does not only attempt to find the number that Donald Rumsfeld won’t quantify in any......