7-Eleven likes to say that its 7-Election coffee cups have called the last two presidential elections, which bodes well for Barack Obama. The convenience store chain's customers have been purchasing far more Obama cups than McCain cups; the Democratic nominee leads the GOP candidate 60 percent to 40 percent.
But over at BGR: The Burger [...]

Eddie Gehman Kohan, one of Los Angeles' cheeky Haphazard Gourmet Girls, e-mailed me this afternoon to share her recent experience at Michel Richard Citronelle. She was on the war path, clearly. She wasn't after Richard's head, but that of the maitre d', who stopped Kohan on the way out of Citronelle and said that her [...]

Brilliant, Mike Licht, brilliant.
The blogger over at Notions Capital has a plan to pay at-large council candidate Michael A. Brown back for his incessant phone calls over the past few months:
Call him back . . .
Campaign Office: 202-629-4240
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP: 202-478-7383
Fax him . . .
1-866-885-1873
or email him . . . mbrown@eapdlaw.com
with a [...]

Studs Terkel, radio host, oral historian, indefatigable promoter of Labor Day, and author of one of the best books ever written about American life, died today. He was 96. A brief obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times has this nice summation:

"He had a very full, eventful and sometimes tempestuous life ," said his son Dan. "It [...]

It's been approximately 23 hours since LL contacted Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss for comment on his Oct. 1 drunk driving arrest. After LL left a message on his cell phone, Strauss texted back: "What?" LL replied, "Obtained court docs today regarding oct 1 arrest. Want to get your side." No response ever came.
Since then LL [...]

At all. From a radio interview this morning:
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to [...]

Today, in the Post's Trail blog, we get McCain Camp bigwig Rick Davis declaring that his candidate is set to achieve one of the greatest comebacks in election history. Coates calls BS. And we second that assessment. The story is all conjecture, theory, and truth stretching. Not a bit of evidence is cited. I [...]

In which The Hill and Pool & Spa give Erik the shivers. The Post, on the other hand, gives us a unique glimpse into the process behind their captions.
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For the past five years, Ellie Sachse of Cleveland Park has been collecting Halloween candy for D.C.'s sex workers. Last year, her neighbors donated some 80 pounds of the stuff, which was then handed off from vans owned and operated by HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive).
The drive is on again this year and Sachse invites [...]

Mike Mozart has some ideas on how to put the trick into tonight's Halloween treats.

I hesitate to poke at this hornet's nest, but what the hell. We need the site visitors. A couple of weeks ago, Waiter Rant (a must read, if you never have) posted a letter, ostensibly from a U.S. waiter to the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, bitching about [...]

The Post's very excellent comics blog, Comic Riffs, has the scoop on Garry Trudeau filing a strip for next Wednesday assuming an Obama win. He has a replacement strip ready just in case, but whatever:
Trudeau tells Comic Riffs today: "If I didn't call the election, I'd have no premise for the week and be forced [...]

Deb Gottesman sounds like a sensitive soul. She requests that I not pick on her, if somehow I find her submission not up to snuff for our Shill for Your Favorite Restaurant feature. Gosh, I feel like I need an anger management course. No worries, Deb. Everything is cool. Thanks for the submission. (Also, don't [...]