First Lady Michelle talking tough: "It’s a battle — we’re going to win — take no prisoners…"  [gold medal beat down] FLOTUS talking crime Olympics.

Strange ads are the new black [coffee]. Starbucks is rolling out its own brand of instant coffee this week, and they’re employing a very topical, if slightly risky, ad campaign to do it. First aired during the premiere of Saturday Night Live, this ad for “Via” gambles heavily that the …

That’s not a punch line – it’s the truth. Sarah Palin’s publisher plans to announce Tuesday that the title of her eagerly awaited memoir will be “Going Rogue: An American Life. [picture book?] We admire the former quitter Governor of Alaska for writing a book, we just feel the title …

Last night on Dancing With the Stars , the Muppets made a guest appearance during Aaron Carter’s performance.  Tom DeLay, who only manged to score 18 out of 30, could’ve used the Muppet contingent. Unfortunately for DeLay, he repeatedly tried to ice those Muppets from getting funding while in Congress.  …

Twitter, at least on Capitol Hill, may be more popular than the wrap line in Longworth, but according to a Vanity Fair poll , the American public at large is not yet sold on the microblogging site.  [via the Twiter Room] Only 15 percent of Americans believe that Twitter is …

We’re fairly certain we’ve seen [or not seen] this guy in Georgetown.  [Jim Zorn is jealous]

Ever wake up after a late night of drinking and realize that you parked your car in your neighbor’s yard, slept in your clothes [on the floor] and your cell phone is sitting in a blender filled with beer? Yeah, well Jim Zorn feels worse than that this morning. Now …

Three out of the four DC teams lost yesterday. [taxing]

Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. h/t the Factor

Throughout history, wannabe politicians have dropped out of congressional races for a variety of reasons.  Sometimes it’s because their polling numbers were too low – other times it’s because of family issues, or the fact that they have multiple families. Whatever the case, the excuses have been fairly predictable. Until …

It’s good to have friends. A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.  [affordable] It’s also the first time the word tiny has …

Facebook Status Abuse: Jenn: Speeddating tonight! I’m short on Jewish women: Women 30-40/Men 35-45 event at 7:00 at YAKU. Email me if you want to come for free. Jenn, e-Harmony is hiring. Third door on the left. [contact-form 3 "Facebook Alerts"]

If you work for CQ-Roll Call and showed up to work today, chances are you got fired. Management is meeting with staffers in waves at CQ-Roll Call. One group at CQ just took a 25 person hit. We hear it’s pretty ugly and as one staffer suggested, "is like a …

GoRemy [the genius behind the Arlington Rap ] recently moved to the DC area – and we’re pretty pumped up about it. You [and 10,000,000 friends] have seen his work on YouTube. Now we get a chance to learn more about the crazy hummus rapper. 1) We saw your latest …

Wake Up Call gem: "I did not sign up for this. I wanted to be lieutenant governor. I had this grand plan that Hillary Clinton was going to become president. Maybe the governor would appoint me to the Senate" — [Gov.]Paterson, on how his grand plans went to s#@t [City …