Maybe it was H.L. Mencken who said it, or maybe it was me, but if you have a choice between mentioning that a former president's daughter is now happily married, well-adjusted, and suited to her new role as education reporter for NBC and leading an item about a former president's daughter who's now an education reporter with NBC by mentioning her booze-addled past, WRITE THE LEAD THAT MENTIONS THE BOOZE-ADDLED PAST EVERY TIME.

But that's not what's fun about this NewsBusters item that laments the fact that Justin Moyer mentioned that Jenna Bush used to terrorize D.C.'s tavern-owning community in a "Names & Faces" piece in the Post (Moyer also mentioned that Bush taught at a charter school, wrote two books, and got married---is there more heft to her story than this?)---it's that citizen journalists such as "sickoflibs" have linked to photos of Moyer in his Edie Sedgwick garb, and that Tim Graham, who wrote the post, quoted some oblique lyrics as proof of Moyer's malfeasance. And then he said this:

Let's have fun imagining Justin Moyer and his editors at the Washington Post Style section never engaged in drinking at bars or clubs before they hit legal drinking age, not to mention what other teenaged hi-jinks they engaged in.

Justin Moyer does not drink. With the exception of a mint julep he tried in Louisville, Ky., in 2000, that has ever been the case. I know, because I called him to ask. Tim Graham, you are a lazy blogger!

* Wonkette live-blogged Barack Obama's television infomercial last night on "poverty and murder." All you need to know:

8:22 — Nevermind, the mother wasn’t the fourth Poor in his story. It’s Joe Biden.
8:22 — No — it’s Claire McCaskill.
8:22 — No — It’s Barack Obama. He is the fourth Poor in his own story.
8:23 — No, REALLY, It’s some guy named Mark, Louisville, lost job at factory, unemployment lines, can’t afford shit, THIS IS MOVING SO FAST, he wants to– THE END OBAMA SHOOTS A THREE POINTER.

* Playgirl editor forces Jezebel editor to consider Barack Obama's penis.

* The New Gay takes 9:30 club patrons to task for dancing, homophobia, tallness.

* John Dickerson for Slate: Why is the McCain camp so happy?

* GWU blog The Colonialist finds something fishy within the new McCain attack ad.

* And in this newspaper:

- The Battle For the Mid-Atlantic: CP chronicles the last legs of the local campaign. Justin Moyer takes McCain; Franklin Schneider takes Obama.

- Which D.C. Pharmacies won't stock your contraception.

- Loose Lips tells you to write-in for Carol Schwartz. Bring a pencil.

- And in arts: Maura Judkis on Richard Avadon; Aaron Leitko reviews Gang Gang Dance.

Photo of the 9:30 Club by rpongsaj.