Pour a little of this in your Cocoa Puffs. Wall Street Journal: When Speechwriters Kiss and Tell When the sun rises over our capital city this morning, its denizens will awake to a truly novel tale: The aggrieved ex-staffer—wait for it!—disillusioned by Washington. The tome out today is by former …

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The Redskins Defense came up big and held on for a win [beat Rams] Obama’s media blitz continues tonight on Letterman [Lynn Sweet] Joe Dub had a long drive back from Vicksburg, Va. [Va Tech wins] Michael Crabtree is still unemployed [$66 million] The San Diego Chargers’ kicker Nate Kaeding looks …

Week one of fantasy football is behind us… And he’s taking his pants off.   Be very afraid. Things didn’t go well for a lot of you.  Things were so bad for Patrick Swayze that he decided to die rather than try to rebuild his shitty team from the waiver …

Barack Obama lunched with Bill Clinton, Hans Nichols celebrated a birthday, Chris Cillizza celebrated the arrival of the Almanac, Roll Call released their Fab 50, Thomas Rushford will lead efforts to introduce the Office of the Historian 2.0, Jordan Stoick celebrated a birthday, Heather Holdridge left Care2 to run online for Fenton …

Mad at the Redskins? Lost a few bucks on the game? Thinking about writing a mean email to Chris Cooley? That’s not really a good idea. Turns out Captain Chaos reads his email and posts the awful ones on his site AND in the Redskins locker room. Unless you want …

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Craig Crawford: Coffee Czar

Condo fees [urban turf] Silly Pizza Song [dance] RIP [Patrick Swayze] Smoking rooms [gone] Publicists [lose jobs] Coffee [dreams]

How was your weekend?

  Politico named their Top 50 Party People in DC, Sally Albright is actually Social Capitol, Ben Smith doesn’t agree with Jonathan Weisman’s Drudge take, Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim told everyone Cramdown is back, Brian Patrick got a Drudge flash with his Whip Count update, is this a Drudge only Friday round-up?, …

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By: Brad Kanus There’s nothing better than fantasy football to get your mind off the rapidly collapsing social foundation of our nation. I’m still not able to keep solid food down since seeing a CNN report featuring my uncle Fred and my grandmother at a rally where the anchor accused …