Damien Ober, the Libertarian challenger to D.C.'s shadow senator, Paul Strauss, has turned in his petitions, hopefully with the 3,000 legit names he needs to get on the ballot. He'll find out if he made it Sept. 8. Ober says he learned a lot about the political process through the arduous work of gathering [...]

In an e-mail dated August 25, Interim Director Roque Gerald confessed some bad news to Child and Family Services Agency employees: there were 1,442 cases still in the backlog.
In mid-July, the backlog stood at 1,708 cases, according to agency documents. It has been more than a month since Sharlynn Bobo resigned. Since July 14, [...]

DENVER—Yesterday, LL reported that musician and DJ Moby had expressed strong support for D.C. voting rights to Shadow Rep. Mike Panetta while at an event here at the Democratic National Convention.
Well, last night, LL was pursuing some leisure activities out in Denver's warehouse district when Moby walked by, on his way into an art gallery. [...]

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Finally an ad campaign that both the brightest young things and the geezers can get behind: A YouTube viral commercial that evokes global warming and is modeled after the "duck and cover" reels from our parents' youth. And, oh yeah, it also promotes Ocean [...]

Sure as the sun will rise, question anything about Dan Snyder's operation and the regular hangers-on at his message board will react as Scientologists once did whenever anybody questioned L. Ron Hubbard's prophetability.
So it was no surprise that the extremeskins.com faithful brought the hate here after a City Desk report recounted last weekend's site crashings [...]

Fenty Yet Again a No-Show: Mayor Adrian M. Fenty was listed as a speaker on the program for this morning's delegation breakfast at the Crowne Plaza, but he never showed.

From Washington City Paper Publisher Amy Austin comes word that a driver who delivers copies of Washington City Paper to streetboxes around the city was held up today at North Capitol Street and Florida Avenue. The driver lost his vehicle, cell phone, and wallet in the incident. We will be aggressively updating this story.

DENVER—TV star Hayden Panettiere, LL has learned, is scheduled to join the D.C. delegation for a luncheon this afternoon hosted by the District's shadow delegation.
Panettiere is buds with Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss, whom she met earlier this year while lobbying Congress on saving the whales. She taped a short YouTube voting-rights PSA with Strauss at [...]

- As Obama clinches the nomination, Slate catches up on the Biden ring tones. They've got "articulate and bright and clean" as well as the old favorite, "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."
- Sick of the 'ol convention twitter feed? Brightest Young Things is [...]

DENVER—These superdelegates had at one time endorsed Hillary Clinton, but ended up casting their votes for Barack Obama:

Most prominently: Harold Ickes, the longtime Dem operative who has been among Clinton's most dogged supporters.
Yolanda Caraway, PR strategist
Hartina Flournoy, American Federation of Teachers
Ben Johnson, DNC deputy chair
Elizabeth Smith, DNC member at large
Mona Mohib, DNC Asian Pacific Islander [...]

DENVER—Mayor Adrian M. Fenty was late arriving to the convention floor and was not able to give the D.C. delegate tally from the delegation's floor microphone.
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton filled in with impromptu remarks, which local Dems chair Anita Bonds says Norton composed, with the help of Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, within five minutes [...]

Gotta credit Eli Saslow and the political team at the Post for the presentation on page A1 of today's edition. Saslow came in with an insta-story on the Hillary delegates who are "still bitter" about their candidate's standing in the presidential race.
Obvious story? Maybe, but look at it this way: As soon as Hillary [...]

The Maryland Renaissance Festival. I've never been to one. Growing up in Oregon, I just couldn't stomach all the earnest ladies in waiting and jousting knights. But I'm gonna brave Maryland's version. Hopefully this busty Valkyrie will be back.

A local adult kickball league has organized an all-day bus trip and meet-up at one of this weekend's Jimmy Buffett concerts at Nissan Pavilion.
Coincidentally, both Adult Kickball and Jimmy Buffett Concerts finished near the top of U.S. News and World Report's most recent Things That Make My Butt Water rankings, now on newsstands.*
*U.S. News and [...]