Today’s the last day to enter Dan Snyder’s Cheerleader Pride Giveaway Contest! Tomorrow, folks at Snyder’s sportstalker, WTEM, will hold the drawing to find out the five 25-to-54-year-old males who’ve won the right to have Redskins cheerleaders — armed with sponges and buckets and zero self-esteem — come over and scrub down their cars.

Come on, pervs: Get your name in before it’s too late!

(’Course, this also means time is running out on Cheap Seats Daily’s ability to run everybody’s fave photo.)

(AFTER THE JUMP: Does Dan Snyder’s vacation choice mean he’s met his Waterloo? Elba is nice this time of year? Somebody wrote something nice about Dan Snyder? Really? Was it accurate? Not really? Where’d David Donovan learn to fib? Dan Snyder’s poster confiscating binge was all a prank? Will anybody get a “Goofus and Gallant” reference?)

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Haven’t had enough fun at the expense of Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s “Braveheart” Education Next story? Head over to D.C. Wire, where Bill Turque makes a medieval jab at the profile and its over-the-top lead image:

“The accompanying story by June Kronholz is, as the picture suggests, almost uniformly admiring. Although it doesn’t address what happened to the real Braveheart, Scottish rebel William Wallace, who was hanged, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered in 1305 for rising up against the British crown.”

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My apologies to anyone who’s been trying to get a hold of me for the past hour. I’ve been too busy giving pageviews to the Washingtonian. For good reason, too. The mag’s February issue has a 14-Web-page expose on the city’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services (FEMS) department.

The investigative piece, which puts to shame even the windiest of City Paper cover stories on the word-count front, delves into the decadeslong dysfunction in the agency. The basic message is that the people responsible for your well-being if you suffer a stroke, heart attack, or some other calamity are demoralized, underpaid, and poorly regarded by their firefighting peers in this agency.

One of the story’s strongest points is its accountability moment for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, who in his 2006 campaign promised to separate out the emergency medical part of the agency from its firefighting component. Here’s the mag’s treatment of that question:

Read More “Mr. Mayor: Why Did You Flip-Flop on FEMS?” »

Fuego/Frio is back from vacation with a new punch, some added zip and—just for good measure—a fresh touch of oomph.

Watch in awe as Erik assails the Washingtonian for hamhandedness, the Washington Hispanic for gun-nescience and the Washington Examiner for treading on well-trodden ground.

El Pregonero, meanwhile, gets some love for a paradigm-shifting day-laborer piece.

Plus: props to the New York Times for beating Wemple on the Brauchli story.

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