Here’s a solid description of Google+ via Playbook. AWESOME DESCRIPTION OF GOOGLE+, the search giant’s new social-media service (currently invite-only) –MIT Technology Review: “Google has created the opportunity for Facebook-weary people to perform … ‘a reset on Facebook,’ allowing them to escape from Facebook members they’ve friended over the years …

Watch out as Huntsman locks up the Red Bull & X Games vote.

While it’s still summer scandal season in DC, this gym is taking advantage of self-conscious politicians that might get caught with their pants down.

Congratulations to Jim Long aka @newmediajim for 15 years of service at @NBCNews.

Just for kicks, we took the transcript from Obama’s Twitter Townhall and then removed Jack Dorsey’s questions and all the side notes (Laughter, Applause, THE PRESIDENT, etc). The total number of words used by President Obama in his answers was about 8,519 — or roughly 38,703 characters. Translation, at 140 …

So long as Bingo is still on this weekend. Spotted in the Minneapolis Airport.

If you don’t know Tom Manatos, well, you should. You might know him from his extensive job list with over 10,000 subscribers, or perhaps it’s that perpetual smile he wears all through the Capitol, he is not to be forgotten. Tom Manatos made the short walk down to the Democratic …

It looks like the Chamber (and we suspect newly-hired digital pros @nickschaper and @seanhackbarth) are looking to steal the spotlight during Obama’s Twitter townhall. From today’s Playbook: “…[W]hen the President conducts his Twitter ‘townhall’ he’ll be met online by his neighbors across the street along with thousands of Americans asking one simple question: …

The senator from Kentucky decided it’s finally to move out of his dad’s place. Originally reported that the two would share a house while Congress was in session this year, the father and son duo have split. Although the deficit cut to his weekly allowance was a factor, DC traffic was …

Trying  to outdo Anthony Weiner, Mark Halperin called President Obama a “dick” on Morning Joe today. Halperin quickly apologized on air, and on twitter and again on air. The apologies just keep coming. MSNBC Statement: Halperin’s comments … were completely inappropriate & unacceptable. We apologize to the President/WH/our viewers. MSNBC …

If the news about Hillary Clinton’s former intern turned adult movie start is true, we might need to amend our Capitol Hill flowchart. [click to enlarge]

Let’s hope he avoids 66 on his way into town.  We’d hate for him to be any later than he’s already going to be. A Georgia man’s covered wagon demonstration rolled through Fairfax County, Va., Monday. Ralph Casey, 69, has spent the month of June traveling with Melissa Wilkerson on …

The DNC is good at a lot of things, softball is not one of them.  For a sixth consecutive year, the DNC lost to the RNC at the annual softball game.  The final score was something like 87 – 12. According to some attendees, the RNC also won the poster …

Conan nails it.  Ron Paul wins.

Roll Call honors the 26 current Members of Congress who followed his or her father’s footsteps to the Capitol. Nancy Pelosi: “While I was still in the middle of my first campaign for Congress, a tough battle, my father said to me, ‘Just remember — I don’t need a ticket …