* Seven years later, a Pentagon memorial is unveiled. [Via Washington Post]
* The Examiner asks if we're safer than we were in 2001.
* Via Politico: Republican foreign policy experts don't have much to say on Palin; Obama and McCain call a 9/11 "truce"
* In alterna-9/11 news, Busboys and Poets kicks off the "9/11 Truth Film [...]
- 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 [...]
* Ben's Chili Bowl turns 50, remains more delicious than my parents.
* Liz, the new hater over at why.i.hate.dc, hits on a topic even trolling commenters can agree on: the meter system's bad cabbie fallout.
* Daily Campello Art News introduces you to D.C. artist Chawky Frenn's still life with animal carcass.
* Forget Phelps. BYT gives [...]
* Good morning! Slate's got all your military sleep-reduction news.
* The Brightest Young Things discuss when rompers go wrong.
* Mr. T in D.C. sets some rules for TV watching at the gym. In: CNN and 80's music videos. Out: Entertainment Tonight and Fox News. This writer humbly submits the perfect gym entertainment: Discovery Channel's Cash [...]
