Those that showed up for Shamrock Fest 2010 know that a little bad weather is no match for cold beer and good tunes. Although the rain was coming down, it did little to deter the merriment of the crowd who chalked up the elements to “good Irish drinking weather”. Thousands …

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Tiger Woods [#1] Elephant [bath] Awesome [image]

CQ – Roll Call vs. Bloomberg [heating up] Personal Finance [Olympics] No So Golden [Arches] Washington [iced] Blizzard [baking] Virtual [grief]

Will readers of The Hollywood Reporter review The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful of 2010? Could the hottest hill staffers turn heads in Hollywood? The owner of Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill is buying the Hollywood Reporter TheWrap: Hollywood Reporter Set to be Sold to ‘Who’s Who’s’ Finkelstein h/t Ted Hearn

Spend a few minutes getting to know a Member of Congress with one of the coolest staffs on Capitol Hill. Anne Schroeder Mullins: Rooney Would Wear Snuggie

This is harsh and we didn’t want to put it up, but Tanner Cooley won’t even email us back. Tanner – it’s been a year. Your move.

Chris Frates and the cool kids read Jezebel, Randy Barrett doesn’t like the DC who’s-who blather, Daniel de Vise is unimpressed by lawmakers’ Tweets, Christina Bellantoni left the Washington Times to join Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo, Texas Republic celebrated winning the House Softball league,  thankfully Christopher Columbus did not share the same drive …

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It’s a slow August Friday in Washington, D.C. … Remember smiling.

Chris Paulitz and Nick Simpson celebrated birthdays, Jeb Hensarling talked with Jackie Kucinich about his lower profile on the front page of Roll Call, Maegan Carberry kicked it in DC for the week, Cynthia McKinney was released from an Israeli prison, Carrie Foster had a great run opening the J&G …

Fourth of July [fans ] Real World DC [anti ] Baby Daddy [Levi ] How to Grill [BLT ]

$10 to the first Senator to ask Sotomayor about this at her confirmation hearing? New York Times: Sotomayor, a Trailblazer, and a Dreamer [but did she wear a bullet proof vest?] “At other times, it involved more derring-do: if the firm had a tip from the United States Customs Office …