When not on the House Floor, Speaker Pelosi likes to play dress up (from the latest Harper’s Bazaar). Hat tip – Anne Schroeder Mullins

Just when you thought nobody cared that your spam filter was over worked- finally, justice has been served. A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet …

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Josie Hearn, former Politico reporter, needs someone to watch her VW: Josephine Hearn is looking for a friend or trustworthy acquaintance to take her 14-year-old VW for 9 months while she is in NYC. $63/month pays the insurance. 

Gotta love the low-level aides who stay off message. “You can get a low level staffer to say almost anything.”–Obama spokesguy Bill Burton on the one and only Bill Press’ Radio show this morning, reacting to Politico’s own Hill Dems are Miffed at Obamastory. (Of course within the story he …

Every now and then something happens in sports that reminds us all that sometimes those Nike and Gatorade commercials can be real. If you didn’t see what Josh Hamilton did last night at the MLB home run derby, you missed out. A former first round draft pick in 1999, Josh …

Some of our tipsters have emailed they’re worried about theHotfile. These tipsters want to know if Hotfile is OK, or if FamousDC scared her away. It has been over a week – come back hotfile!

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It’s time for advocacy ads. Media buyers know their target audience and they’re drilling home the energy ads during the expensive MTP airing: T. Boone Pickens – The Pickens Plan Southern Company – Powered by Common Sense Chevron – Human Energy SVEZ – Energies of Progress Association of American Railroads …

Please come back….soon. These days a Brett Favre text message will lead off SportsCenter for three days and we’re tired of reading about A-rod. We need end zone dances, QB sacks, fantasy football drafts and Monday Night Football. We hope to see you soon. – FamousDC

Obama to Sponsor a NASCAR car? Nah, not so much according to the L.A. Times: The Barack Obama campaign has reportedly declined the proposal of BAM Racing to be hood sponsor of the No. 49 Toyota driven by Ken Schrader at the Aug. 3 Pocono race.

JoMa: Ya can’t make it up: The New Yorker says it’s satire. It certainly will be candy for cable news.

Sunday’s Playbook: SPOTTED – Doug Heye, doing the Macarena on the Jumbotron at Nationals Park.

Gilbert Arenas makes it official, signs six-year, $11 million deal with Wizards on Sunday. Congratulations to Agent Zero and the Wizards. We’re glad to see local teams spend big money to keep our superstars in D.C.

The popular conservative community had a little work done recently.  Web 2.0 is such the rage.