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Dear Jane, In order to represent the people, it’s imperative that you act like the people. Just because you write the laws, doesn’t mean you’re above them. Although, we do love your SUV – very foreign of you. Is it a hybrid? Regards, FDC Editors 2601 PARKING AND OTHER NON-MOVING …

The family indicted together … stays together. John Bresnahan: William Jefferson’s brother, sister, and niece indicted The brother, sister and niece of indicted Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) were indicted themselves today for allegedly skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars from non-profit groups they controlled, according to the Associated Press.

Play video games.…Obvi! Claudia Parsons: Retired Justice O’Connor Unveils Video Game America’s first female Supreme Court justice unveiled a videogame project on Wednesday to teach children how courts work, saying she wanted to counter partisan criticism that judges are “godless” activists.

Before the tornadoes and monsoons hit our fair city yesterday, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Caarey were out on the mall protesting kids or something. In all seriousness, they were protesting for the group, Green Our Vaccines, to urge the government to eliminate toxins from children’s vaccines. Here’s a pic from …

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer stops by the WaPo and pronounces newspapers and magazines dead. Kim Hart: Steve Ballmer Swings By the Post Steve Ballmer’s favorite TV show is “Lost,” but he refuses to pay a buck to get it on iTunes–he’d rather deal with a few ads. He still isn’t sure …

From Ambinder: So the RNC, in its video on Democrats who’ve criticized Obama, plays a sound bite of Sen. John Edwards noting Obama’s “high-falutin” language. The accompanying translation posted by the RNC also has Edwards talking about hot air… just hot air of a different kind.

From several Cap Hill tipsters: “The U.S. Capitol Police have just issued an alert of tornado warnings in the metropolitan area. We have been advised to stay inside & move away from the windows.”

Here’s today’s Craigslist DC want ad of the day. I’m looking to get a refrigerator so I can build a kegerator for my house… Congressman Kagen, that’s awfully clever of you.

It’s no mystery that free booze drinks on Capitol Hill are hard to come by these days. Ever since Jack Abramoff pooped the nest, a free drink, bought by your favorite lobbyist, is frowned upon. Perhaps even illegal. So beyond having to bang the barkeep for free shots, how does …

DC Naked Bike Ride Scheduled for Saturday [DCist] Proposed Baseball Stadium Names [Squidpants] Wu-Tang and Online Chess [wuchess] Garfield Minus Garfield [scary]

How to you spell bitter? Perhaps you start by reading this from Marc Ambinder.

Congressional wannabe Jon Powers is taking heat for accepting campaign contributions from a strip club owner. Richard A. Snowden of Buffalo, NY is the alleged entrepreneur. Not only has Powers accepted $7,000 from Snowden and his Rick’s Tally-Ho “gentleman’s cabaret” in Cheektowaga, but Snowden co-hosted a fundraising event for him …

Reports are quickly surfacing, although none of them confirmed, that while Bill Clinton was off hustling Hollywood for campaign cash- money wasn’t the only thing he was “raising”. Vanity Fair is reporting that Billy Clinton once had relations with actress Gina Gershon. As for Gershon – she’s not a happy …