How Hipster Glasses Went from Geek to Chic to Wear

The WashingtonPost reports:

“Those new glasses?”

When White House press secretary Jay Carney recently fielded a question about, of all things, his eyewear, he plunged into a danger zone more fraught than his sparring sessions with reporters over Syria’s regime or the latest unemployment figures. The question was a little flirty, a little taunting.

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Former Exec Director of ABO/NCLE Goes to Slammer

"The executive director of a Fairfax County-based national association of opticians [ABO/NCLE] was sentenced Friday to a year in prison for his part in a scheme that authorities said stole about $1.7 million from the association.
Hugh Michael Robey, 48, of Bowie, had been the executive director of the American Board of Opticianry and the National Contact Lens Examiners, a nonprofit group on Loisdale Road in the Springfield area.s" That's that start of the Washington Post story.

Washington Wizards's Hinrich Adverts Optical Disaster

"Kirk Hinrich needed to get his Illinois driver's license renewed before his 30th birthday earlier this month, so he went in for a routine eye exam with Washington Wizards team optometrist Keith Smithson. The plan was for Hinrich to just read a few rows of descending letters and fax the results to the Illinois Department of Motor Vehicles," according to the WashingtonPost.
"But the process became more complicated as Hinrich came away with the startling news that if he continued to play basketball without protective eyewear, he stood a high risk of getting hit and losing sight in his left eye."