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The third graf of today's Fishbowl DC morning roundup is, for my money, the worst blind item ever. —Mark Athitakis

Greater Southeast Community Hospital, the long-troubled Ward 8 facility, is no more—in name, anyway. This morning, hospital leaders, along with a gaggle of dignitaries, announced the hospital will be "rebranded" as United Medical Center. By the time LL left the press conference, workers outside were stringing up new temporary signs over the old ones.
The hospital [...]

Roosh V, local sex and dating blogger, amateur haikuist, and self-described "player," has created this handy "Are You A Player Quiz" to help those less sure about their status in "the game." As I would also like to see the phrase "and self-described 'player'" capping my mini-biography, I decided to take Roosh's quiz to see [...]

The American College of Sports Medicine has released a list of the fittest American metropolitan regions, and the D.C. area, not surprisingly, cracks the top five.
(1) San Francisco
(2) Seattle
(3) Boston
(4) Washington D.C.
(5) Atlanta
(6) Philadelphia
(7) Chicago
(8) Dallas/Fort Worth
(9) New York City
(10) Miami/Fort Lauderdale
Health experts "took into consideration a number of health indicators, including the percentage [...]

A based-on-real-events overheard conversation in D.C.:
Girl 1: Did you like the movie? I thought it was fun, but I didn’t like the ending?
Girl 2: Yeah, the ending was, like, too depressing for me. But the characters were really likable so…
Girl 1: It’s still early? Let’s get a drink? There’s this great bar a block away?
Girl [...]

Dan Snyder's pummeled theme park chain, Six Flags, has been taking a Kimbo Slice-sized beating from Wall Street analysts lately.
Thestreet.com has tabbed Snyder's operation as the "worst managed" entertainment outfit in the land.
These folks paint Snyder as the Bill Bidwill of the Disney wannabes.
Six Flags, says thestreet.com, is "adept at operating consistently at a loss and burning cash. Six Flags relies [...]

How do you strike out on your own if your dad already sells bling? Jon Mervis says selling t-shirts is a lot like selling diamonds. They're both "emotional products." To be honest, my emotional reaction to most of these Tee's is, Uuuuggghh. But, you gotta hand it to the kid for going all the way [...]

Hey McKenna, get back to work, wouldja?

*Bumbling spokesperson no more, Scott McClellan is causing quite the uproar...what stage of it are we on now? The reaction to the reaction? Or the reaction to the reaction to the reaction?
*New York Magazine writes an entire article about a blog, which reminds me ever so slightly of Prince of Petworth. First the Emily Gould [...]

By now, thanks to Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher, you may have already mustered a certain amount of righteous outrage at the antics of stickler advisory neighborhood commissioner Frank Winstead. Barbara Meade and Carla Cohen, the owners of the venerable Politics and Prose bookstore, however, seem to have just gathered theirs. This came out in [...]

Dan Snyder's hobbled theme park chain, Six Flags, just can't buy good news.
Kaitlyn Lasitter, a Kentucky teen whose feet were chopped off during a visit last summer to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, came to Capitol Hill this month to lobby Congress to approve federal oversight of theme parks.
The incident on the Superman Tower of Power [...]

I thought I would do something brilliant, and order my birth control pills online from my pharmacy. I filled out the online forms way in advance and got friendly little updates that my order had been received and was on its way. I hurried home on the Friday before the holiday weekend to collect the [...]

About a hour ago, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty showed up at Fort Reno park, along with a gaggle of District and federal officials, to sound the all clear for arsenic.
A little recap: On May 14, the National Park Service closed the park after U.S. Geological Survey scientists discovered a test sample taken there, prompted by [...]

D.C. hotels: They're good for more than just prostitutes. Sometimes, there's drugs! Ray-J got busted at the Hyatt Regency on New Jersey Avenue NW this week while trying to hide his alleged stash of marijuana and "boat," a drug too cool for me to have ever heard of it. Hotel staffers showed Kim Kardashian's co-star [...]