La la la, the contest continues, see the full 64-workplace bracket here, D.C. government I’ve got my eye on you this week, all right are you ready let’s go show me your men!

FIRE DEPARTMENT: Nothin’ manlier than emptying your hose on some hot property, am I right ladies? OR AM I WRONG:

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The Manliest Workplace in D.C. Tournament marches on toward the halfway point this week (See the full 64-workplace bracket here). The D.C. government bracket slogs on today as the Water and Sewage Administration faces off against Fenty’s finest. Sewage handlers versus the executive branch—a natural match-up, no?

WASA: So, “DCWASA is a multi-jurisdictional regional utility that provides drinking water, wastewater collection and treatment to more than 500,000 residential, commercial and governmental customers in the District of Columbia.” But does it also throw the women out with the wastewater? Let’s find out!

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The Manliest Workplace in D.C. Tournament continues this week as our local D.C. government institutions are placed beneath the gender microscope that is this continuing blog series! (See the full 64-workplace bracket here). Today, will the 8th-seed D.C. Public Library get Dewey Decimated by the one-seed D.C. Court of Appeals? Court is now in session!

D.C. COURT OF APPEALS: Our own bite-sized slider to the Supreme Court’s man sandwich comes recommended by one Lady Justice as a hot contender in the case for Man Madness. But will D.C.’s appellate court prove more Judge Judy than Harry Anderson? I’ll be the judge!

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Times they are a-changin’ in the federal government, but manliness endures. Here are the results of the Manliest Workplace in D.C. competition’s Fed bracket (See the full 64-workplace bracket here):

The Senate, weighing in with an impressive 100 percent manliness (55 out of 55 on the manly index, all men all the time everywhere), is the institution to beat here. This week, D.C. government’s finest attempts to take down Byrd & co.

I just can’t stop! I’ve got the madness! Let’s sew up this bracket right now! FBI, CIA: Show me your men!

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: My, how the tables have turned. Look who’s on the other end of the interrogation table now, FBI! Do you have women working inside your workplace? We have ways of making you talk. Cue the Rage Against the Machine! Fire up the waterboard!—What’s that you say? You publicly post your org chart on the Internet? My bad:

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The Manliest Workplace in D.C. Competition continues today in a match-up sure to be less painful than most acts of Congress! (See the full 64-workplace bracket here). Today, the Federal Government bracket heats up as our bicameral legislature goes mano-a-mano to determine final man dominance (until the new, possibly gender-compromised Congress is sworn in). For now, we live in 110th Congress man-bliss as the House takes on the Senate:

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Congressional leaders are listed first, followed by the longest-serving members of the House, in order to give credit to those public servants who have lent the most years of manliness to our great man nation. Lets get to governin’!

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The Federal Government contest continues today in D.C.’s man madness tournament—the quest to find the D.C. institution with the most men in the highest positions. (See the full 64-workplace bracket here). Today, Bushies face off against the Benjamins as  President Bush’s cabinet takes on the Federal Reserve Board.

PRESIDENTIAL CABINET: Historical election, shmishtorical shmeshectshion! The United States on Tuesday continued its long and glorious tradition of keeping women out of the Oval Office, unless they’re “just visiting.” But how many women have been able to sneak willy-nilly into that cramped Presidential cabinet? Let’s find out!

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Welcome back to the Manliest Workplace in D.C. Tournament. With the Culture bracket languishing in a statistical dead heat between the Washington Redskins and the Smithsonian Institution, it’s time to turn our attentions to the granddaddy of all granddaddy employers: The Federal Government! (See the full 64-workplace bracket here).

Today, one-seed the Supreme Court takes on the eight-seed U.S. Postal Service. Will a collection of robed-swathed old men fall to a legion of boys in short pants? Let’s find out!

THE SUPREME COURT: This high-talkin’ decidey-branch hashes it out on issues manly (District of Columbia v. Heller) and non (Roe v. Wade). But in the court of Man, will these Justices be served? Let’s go to the line-up:

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Well, it’s been a hell of a week in non-manliness. I hope we’ve all learned something about D.C. culture here, folks: It is, at best, marginally manly. So while the winner of the Culture bracket will have the satisfaction of besting his peers, he will almost certainly fall to the mighty Washington Times in the elite eight. (See the full 64-workplace bracket here). Whatever. Let’s get straight to the recap:

Oh, Fuuuuck come on! With a just-ok manly rating of 38, the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington Redskins manage to tie this pathetic thing. Figures, “Culture.” Tune in next week as we determine the winner of the Culture bracket through arbitrary decidey-things!

This week wraps up the Culture bracket in the Sexist’s Manliest Workplace in D.C. Competition. Today, we give the arbitrary calculation treatment to the Studio Theatre and the D.C. outfit of Madame Tussauds. Will the human impressionists of the threatre prove manlier than the wax dummies of the house of oddities? Find out!

STUDIO THEATRE: This contemporary theater claims to have “received nearly 200 Helen Hayes Award nominations for artistic excellence since the awards were founded in 1985.” But will it receive the local theater world’s highest honor, victory in the Manliest Workplace competition?

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