Good insight from several perspectives. [another WaPost powered blog] The metal detectors were cumbersome but we understood; the nerds who decided to make opening day a political scene were worse. If I had a nickel for each person who made the “Bush messes everything up” joke while waiting on line, …

Listen to Mortman: A Banks Shot For Hillary [free advice, that might work]

Gold star for rebuilding after Katrina [Wally World] Digging up Bones  [Friedrich Schiller] Best of the state political blogs  [the fix!] Julia Allison = real life Carrie Bradshaw  [Harold Ford’s Ex] Caron Butler’s 28th birthday bash [Ray Lewis & Jason Campbell kicking it] One in six West Virginians receive … …

It’s no doubt the McCain camp has a firm grasp on the importance of bloggers and the role blogging will have this cycle – proof is in the fact that the left is paying close attention.  But also worth noting is the fact that the MSM has taken notice too. Below …

Here’s the famous New York Times Magazine article all of DC discussed over brunch this weekend. Benjamin Wallace-Wells: A Case of the Blues Cole’s strategy is not complicated, but it does contain an essential difficulty: at a moment when Washington is deeply unpopular, he wants his candidates to run as …

The second graph of the Beltway’s best round-up should get you back up to speed: Good Monday morning. The president is off to Eastern Europe, the HUD secretary is out, the Treasury secretary wants to rewire the nation’s financial regulators, Al Gore is launching an ad campaign featuring Pat Robertson …

Ryan Zimmerman delivers game ending home run in the bottom of the 9th! Nationals 1-0 in new stadium Michael Ruane: Cheers Not Just for the Home Team but for Timely Rails, Clear Roads Dick Heller: A permanent palace for baseball in the District Express: Opening Night at Nationals Park Selig: …

Nationals Park opens today. WaPo has an interactive map for your own virtual tour. Boswell: Upon Inspection, New Home Has Some Sweet Aspects to It Sommer Mathis: Nationals Park Songs Selected

Hillary facing gun fire [yikes] Pin the VP on the nominee [the fix] Blog Freedom [Freddoso]

From Anne Schroeder’s blog: Does anyone else think Xavier’s basketball coach Sean Miller is a ringer for the Republican Study Committee’s spokesman Brad Dayspring? We’ll let you decide …. *PS: Thank you to the tipster who ripped the Dayspring photo off Facebook. Ah, the ever so public Facebook phenomena …

This week we are highlighting the 5 Most Ridiculous Twitter Updates. In case you have a life and don’t know what Twitter is – it’s a microblog for nerds who can’t get enough blogging in on a daily basis.  It’s utterly useless, but entertaining for us. [*note, names have been left …

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Someone has uploaded a virtual Vietnam Wall [amazing]  You can view every name on the wall. You can search by name, hometown, service, or enlistment type. Facts about the Interactive Wall At full size, The Wall image on Footnote is about 460 feet wide (400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels …

Dr. Pepper will give everyone in America free soda if Chinese democracy is released in 2008 [Marketing GENIUS] G-town offers a class on Harry Potter [Still no Final Four?]  

Calderone: Pigskins and Politics The NFL and NBC reached a compromise today to run the game at 7 p.m. EST, instead of 8:30 p.m. So as long as there’s no overtime, the game should end before McCain hits the podium.