Cheap headline. But am I the only one who thinks there's something strangely sexy about the language surrounding this whole stimulus bill?
I have been out of middle school for a solid decade, but I still couldn't get through this Post article without smirking. I mean, we have President Bush describing "arduous, late-night negotiations" between House [...]

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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty continues to endear himself to the District's civil service, today announcing that nine government employees have been fired for looking at Internet porn at work.
Fenty made the announcement this afternoon at One Judiciary Square, one of the District's largest concentrations of municipal employees, flanked by City Administrator Dan Tangherlini, Acting Attorney [...]

"Mayor Fenty Announces Administration Crackdown on District Employee Pornographic Internet Use"
At 2 p.m. Will report back soonest.

My friend Beth Slovic, at Willamette Week (where I used to work), just wrote an excellent piece on a Facebook fatwa launched by female students at Lewis & Clark College in Portland against an alleged rapist. Student Helen Hunter initiated the fateful encounter with Morgan Shaw-Fox, sending him a text and going over to his [...]

Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending Musselman's Apple Sauce Presents: The Music of Seal on Ice. I had been anticipating the event for weeks–ever since I first set my eyes on the event's glorious promotional shot, pictured at right.
Damn you, mastermind photoshop artists: You have fooled me once again with your impressive fonts [...]

One more surprise from our new owners this week: our new health insurance doesn't cover birth control. That's $50 a month (instead of about $30).
But whoa, serendipity! This pile of one-time-use prophylactics has magically appeared in our lounge. Two female condoms, two male condoms and little packet of sugar-free, flavored lube. The ladies left [...]

The sort of message I love to see in my inbox on Monday mornings:
"Your penis will make more shadow than a tree."
Finally.

I had a good time watching Richard Kern in the hot seat last night at the Modernist Society conversation series at Bourbon. Kern, a longtime producer of arty softcore porn, sat down for an hourlong interview with Jason Mojica, who totally outed me as the author of a kind of haterish blog post [...]

While the country is on the topic of bathroom trysts, it may want to peer into the archives of Washington City Paper. This piece, by yours truly, provides a deep look at the scene at the MLK Jr. library circa 1997. Give it a read.

Last night, I attended a screening of Superbad at Regal Gallery Place. The film featured Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, and one of the most powerful movie-theater-talkers I have ever encountered.
Sure, Gallery Place is notoriously loud. But strangely enough, at this particular showing, the audience was fairly quiet, save for this one man. He was tremendous: [...]

I recently attended a D.C. Women Journalists happy hour. Even though I'm still clinging to my 20s, I was easily the matron of the bunch. I ended up sitting next to a congressional reporter who was telling a story about an annoying saleslady. "She was older," my unknowing colleague said, "like 30." Ugh. Once I [...]

They keep the water bongs out front at B & K News Stand in Adams Morgan, but sex and Tom Clancy, it seems, trump weed. For that you've got a pay a buck.
Several times during the past two weeks, I have stopped by the store looking, unsuccessfully, for the September issue of Outside.
Each time, after [...]

Kids fuck. You wanna know what kids in the District think about fucking and getting tested for HIV? I'm not sure you do. But Metro TeenAIDS worked up a survey of 13-to-24 year olds and released the somewhat-disturbing/somewhat-expected results on its Web site recently. OK. Recently is a bit of a stretch. Try June. But [...]

Remember Dr. Christopher Warner, he of "vaginal rejuvenation" services? Well, Dr. Warner is not a man to rest easy, content to spend his days merely tightening up vaginal canals with his magical laser. Behold his newest offering: G-SPOT AMPLIFICATION!
G-SPOT AMPLIFICATION
Washington, DC- Dr. Christopher Warner, M.D., FACOG, founder of the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of Washington [...]