The second page of the Metro section in my Washington Post this morning contained two grave byline anomalies.
First up: Debbie Wilgoren. As any Metro-reading vet knows, that's one too many vowels for this longtime Postie's byline.
Then, on an adjacent story: Darryl FEARS. Someone messed up, big-time, the most basic of typesetting tasks.
Does [...]
At Georgia Brown's. So says Reliable Source.
Seriously, Georgia Brown's?
Dunno if that was your idea, Mr. Mayor, or yours, Mrs. First Lady, but you both need some better culinary counsel. I mean, how much more Clintonian can you get?
LL thought this was a new day for America!
UPDATE, 4:45 P.M.: Apparently GB's was the Fentys' idea. Jill [...]
This is only slightly less astounding than the fact that America elected a black president: The Republican National Committee has elected a black chairman, and a D.C. native at that.
Michael Steele, raised in Petworth and a graduate of Archbishop Carroll High School, won the RNC chair this afternoon on the sixth ballot.
Get the blow-by-blow.
Harold C. "Rabbit" Angstrom: Not-so-great husband. Accidental friend of half-assed radicals. Faithful reader of Consumer Reports! So reports Consumer Reports' Home & Garden blog:
Rabbit Is Rich is filled with references to our magazine and car coverage; a mention on the first page, with Rabbit working at a car dealership, reads: "The f—ing world is running [...]
The streets are clear, the schools are open. But guess what, all you flinty former Chicagoans and tough-skinned others? D.C.'s still whining about the weather. This time it's about the ice. On the Listservs, on the forums, in the streets, on the phone, folks want to know what's up with clearing it. Spots where the [...]
What a perfect storm of new releases this weekend:
–Wendy and Lucy, a terribly timely and terribly depressing slice-of-life about a broke 20-something with a dead car and a lost dog. Starring Michelle Williams and her Dorothy Hamill-meets-No Country for Old Men hair.
–Taken, a thriller co-written by Luc Besson that stars Liam Neeson as a retired [...]
I just lost a seriously linked, seriously considered, seriously serious blog post about the ice problem in D.C. Poof. Gone. It had a photo. It had actual quotes from an actual DPW spokesperson. It had a point. While you are busy not caring, check out Fuck You Penguin: A Blog Where I Tell Cute Animals [...]
Then you might consider applying to serve as executive director of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics.
The agency has been in the news in a bad way in recent months, for botching vote counts on the night of the District primary in September, then by taking forever to get any results out after the [...]
A note of thanks to all those who contributed to our Inauguration Flickr pool. Just eighteen days ago, we sent out a call for dope/avant-garde photographs chronicling this seminal/historic/generally rad moment in D.C. history. The pool swelled to a whopping 699 photographs, from which Darrow Montgomery somehow managed to extract the finest three...or [...]
A while back the Onion and the Washington Post struck a partnership of sorts, and so I thought that a bit of the former's news coverage had bled onto the latter's Web site when I read this: "VIPs: Lack of Security 'Absurd'"
The story, and it's a good one, is that big-time Obama campaign [...]
Each Sunday at my home is homemade pizza night. This past week, a family member asked for an unorthodox topping.
Yum?
Republican honchos from across the country are gathered today at the Capital Hilton to pick the next chair of the Republican National Committee. Now usually LL would have no interest in this, except that D.C. native and former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele has mounted a strong bid for the seat.
All three voting members from [...]
I'm awed by the apathy toward this weekend's Steelers–Cardinals matchup. What's its Roman numeral, Super Bowl ZZZ?
Nobody around here cares. I got invited to two parties on Sunday. Neither gathering has anything to do with the game.
The halftime attraction, Bruce Springsteen, has gotten a lot more attention than any game-related story line.
At his press conference [...]
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Morning all. WTOP's Mark Segraves feels President Barack Obama, despite our adulation, has been [...]
Good morning, City Desk readers. It's Libertarian Friday, are you ready to rage against the system? Great! Here's some news:
Culture11, the conservative/libertarian Web magazine started by Conor Friedersdorf, Peter Suderman, Joe Carter, David Kuo, and James Poulos and based in Arlington, laid off its entire staff on Wednesday. According to Kuo: "We raised a certain [...]
