Post Archive

May 2009

It looks like the lovers of Virginia have lost out to the frowners. Thomas Frank: Four states adopt ‘no smiles’ policy for driver’s licenses Stopping driver’s license fraud is no laughing matter: Four states are ordering people to wipe the grins off their faces in their license photos. … "Neutral …

Reuters’ Robert Basler: You bumped WHAT with Obama?

Join Megan Vanderbur at the American Lung Association’s happy hour at Jordan’s (8th Street, 523 8th Street, SE) on Wednesday, May 27th from 7 – 10 p.m. The ALADC has set up happy hour specials until 10 p.m. You can also sign-up to participate in the upcoming Breathe DC Metro …

Welcome [Pelosi ] New Pool [Fenty ] Fashion Fail [O’s ]

Sarah Robinson Photography: Freedom Ride, Washington DC May 24, 2009 HerbofDC: Buffalo Thunder in Shaw Tony Eckersley: Rolling Thunder – Washington DC DigitallyDC: Memorial Day CNN’s Mike Ahlers: Rolling Thunder Comes to Washington

Enjoy the holiday and be careful out there. We’ll see you next week. Until then, we’re hanging on a boat .

Read the Comments [three wolves ] Worst Outfit Ever [oddly enough ] Road Closures [Memorial Day ] Foshizzle [Supreme Court ] Do you abuse? [Facebook ] Google That [FamousDC ] DC Quarter [u design ] Hands stuck [toilets Saint-Ex [chili ]

Brody Mullins and Lauren Poplawski got hitched, Elizabeth Edwards promoted her book in DC, Jessica Boulanger took the youngest Nationals fan alive to the stadium for battle with the Phillies, Querry Robinson celebrated a birthday, David Wade chased down a dude who stole his blackberry outside of Verizon Center, Garrett …

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Politico’s Mike Allen was spotted with C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman — and Mike didn’t have his trusty blackberry in hand. FamousDC was able to secure the only known photograph of The Playbook sans blackberry taken since January 23, 2007. When asked about the beltway brain trust meeting, both parties provided the …

The Energy and Commerce Committee has been a barrel of laughs this week. We thought Chairman Waxman’s sly move of sending all the Republicans cucumber sandwiches would take the cake, but boy were we wrong! Earlier today, in the never-ending mark-up, Congressman Joe Barton asked the Democrats’ speed reader to …

Apparently shaking hands and kissing babies is so 2008. Now it’s about making sure your blackberry has enough battery power left so you can live-tweet your local political meeting. The latest virtual tutorial comes from Saul Anuzis via his twitter feed: Showing RNC members how easy it is to post. …

Goodbye [Circle Boutique ] Road Closures [Memorial Day ] Buddha’s Wii Whiskers [Frank ]

As part of C-SPAN’s "Students & Leaders" program showing next week, C-SPAN recently taped RNC chairman Michael Steele talking to students at Woodson Senior High School in DC. During Mr. Steele’s presentation, he tells Woodson students how we got kicked out of Johns Hopkins. He tells the students: "I partied …

A few months ago [pre swine flu] we wrote about an epidemic sweeping the nation.  When we first alerted FDC fans about how we felt about the state of Facebook abuse, it was our hope that the problem would get better.  It hasn’t. Not only are the abuses getting worse, …