Getting addicted [Java Mom] Week in photos [Hey love] Jessica Alba [Google+] Derek Jeter [3,000] Snooze [time] Photo courtesy of Brie La Salle

New rail car preview [metro] Yards Park Summer Series [concerts] Fire on U St. this AM [flamed out] Walmart wins over DC [again] GOP candidate wants to legalize pot [pot platform]

Speed camera brings traffic to a standstill [Baltimore – Washington Parkway] Zuck explains the law of social sharing [interesting] Cops crash car to make a point [dummies] Is this the guy who iced Bin Laden? [John]

Metro escalators not working [shocker] More housing coming to 15th and V St. [high rise] Date me DC is single again [needs a date] Red Hook Lobster Truck coming to a location near you [Arlington] Rick Perry vs. George W. Bush [NY Times] Fireworks [AND lightening] Paint Job [Audi 5,000] …

Yesterday’s reporter is today’s White House spokesman is tomorrow’s pundit. [1993] You have died of dysentery [Los Angeles] Are you famous? [in Poland] Now THAT is a finale [U2] U.S. – MEXICO [border] Photo from outside the National Monument courtesy of Lexie Hosier.

Why the Pauls broke up [Traffic] Salahis crash another pad [Tommy McFly] 7 restaurants coming to DC [yards] NBA players clearly have nothing to do [planking] Eat, drink and be independent [BYT] Senate has to work on debt ceiling during recess since they didn’t use their time wisely during study hall. …

Aspen Ideas Festival [DC Summer Camp] Bachmann Mania [South Carolina] District MCs drop new beats [rap] Don’t try too hard [hipsters] This scarecrow was spotted on Capitol Hill. And it ain’t even near Halloween.

Congressional cupcake war [partisanship] Holy see tweets [Vatican] Is this your boss [yeah] FamousDC thanks Andrea (@andreajm) for her awesome DC Fish Market picture.

Obama’s Signature [autopenned] Local history check [Bachmann] No P Street [R Kelly] Thanks to Pamela Hughes (@pamelahughes) for the picture. Check out her blog here.

Another country heard from [Al Gore] Still Texting [Weiner] Completing the best mid-life crisis ever [Mark Cuban] Obama’s Diamond Anniversary [golf] Calvin and Hobbes [explain war] New Washington Wizard Jan Vesely [he’s got game]

Meet Mike Conneen [FishbowlDC] Trattoria Lavagna [8th Street] Best Weekend Bets [BYT] Joe Biden [ice cream]

Palin’s bus tour goes on holiday [well-deserved] The Manning Brothers [genius] Crack pipe money [O’Keefe] They caught Whitey [wow] Great rainbow pic [Nats]

Economy so good, man picks jail [robs bank] Newt’s finance team says adios [debt] Hide yo kids [black bear wanders DC] Bus drivers gotta pee too [taking a stance] Bristol has a book [for sale]

He’s back [Olbermann] Ed Henry says goodbye to CNN [hello FoxNews] Chicago has a hipster alderman [Moreno] U St. getting revamped [pedestrian friendly] Ted’s Bulletin serving spam [hell yes]

Rory wins [US Open] Metro’s safety improvements [here’s to hoping] Photo of the year [riot] Get ready for Moneyball [Trailer] And how did all of those folks sneak their blackberry into Congressional?