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newspapers
Dreaded 'Traffic' Made the Washington Post Fire Froomkin
Today was Dan Froomkin's last day with the Washington Post, who canned him despite his being generally one of the better things about that paper. And why did they can him? There are theories! More »
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By PareeneComment by Crantastic: Eric Wemple rubs me the wrong way ever since that bizarre Murray Waas "expose" that was front page on the... more » | Other threads
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tweens
Jonas Bro Invades DC, Befriends Old Men
Nick Jonas (not the ugly one) (but notthe cute one?) testified on Capitol Hill today, and guess who acted like a bunch of tween girls: the mothers of tween girls, and the DC press corps. And a Senator! More »
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By PareeneComment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: Everyone can just simmer down. These Jonas boys are all promise-ringed. "To respect the girls." 20 Responses | Other threads
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breaking
Six Dead So Far in DC Subway Crash
Two trains have collided in Washington DC's Metro. One train is on top of the other, officials say, in between Takoma and Fort Totten on the Red Line. Six people are confirmed dead. Unconfirmed: up to seven dead. More »
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By PareeneComment by Xenu Warrior God: If everyone worked from home and never left their house this would never have happened. This is why I am... 32 Responses | Other threads
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angry people
Liz Becton Continues to Terrorize Washington With Email
Liz Becton, a scheduler for a congressman (a lowly Representative, too!) recently became famous for hating it when you call her Liz. It turns out that she is basically the single worst monster in all of DC. More »
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By PareeneComment by resipsaloquacious: Another possible explanation: The recession has resulted in less food consumption, thus, reducing ass sizes, thus, reducing the amount of ass... 4 Responses | Other threads
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you are here
How to Break Into the Real World: DCers' House
OK, that's not what we're advocating here, or even talking about. What we mean to say is: Hey, look! Someone found the blueprints for the Real World's new Dupont-located fuckhut. The biggest news? There's no goddamned hot tub. Whither Chlamydia? More »
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michelle obama
Fashion Critic Breaks White House News
Pulitzer-winning critic Robin Givhan is the Fashion Editor of the Washington Post, but today she totally broke some news. There has been a shake-up at the White House! The East Wing of the White House. (That is the lady wing.) More »
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By PareeneComment by Mymoustache: Was she married to Mike Tyson? I am SO out of the loop. 1 Responses | Other threads
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heading to the mall
Real Housewives To Burn Washington D.C. to the Ground
Washington is all the rage these days! What with the politics and all. MTV's Real World series might be heading down that way, and Newsweek did that DC-set Hills parody. Well now Bravo's following suit. With—yes you guessed it because, really, what else?—an upcoming installment of Real Housewives. More » -
gathering storm
Poor Black City About to Embarrass Rich White State
So once DC legalizes Gay Marriage are we officially done with the "black people hate gays" thing? Or has everyone forgotten about the Prop 8 blame game already? Probably. [T-NC]
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By PareeneComment by Ohcaptainmycaptain: I can't believe this issue continues to drag on and on. Can't we let the gays get married so they can... 4 Responses | Other threads
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nerd prom
It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
It is an annual tradition dating back to a couple years ago: go to the White House Correspondents Dinner and then shit all over it the following Monday. But this year, everyone had fun!
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By PareeneComment by Gawkchalk: Why in the hell was Wanda Sykes hosting. You would think they could get someone better. Was Kathy Griffin not available? 7 Responses | Other threads
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tea parties
Teabagging Jokes, Killer Robots Sweep the Nation
It's not just cable pundit "teabagging" jokes (attached) we have to deal with today: it's freedom fighters versus socialist/fascist big government ROBOTS! HAPPY TEA PARTY TAX DAY! More »
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By PareeneComment by AndPreciousLittleofThat: Hey, you don't want to pay taxes? Fine. But don't bother to call 911 the next time something happens. ... 22 Responses | Other threads
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parties
No Hitchens Party At This Year's White House Correspondents' Dinner
It is a sad day, in DC: Chris Hitchens' canceled his White House Correspondents' Dinner party. Sort of. Vanity Fair just merged it with the overcrowed Bloomberg gala. More »
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By PareeneComment by Disco-Johnson: In other news, no noms for Gawker sites in this years webbys [www.webbyawards.com] 3 Responses | Other threads
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uh oh
US Capitol Evacuated!
Oh boy, a Capitol Police alert! Everyone evacuate the US Capitol Visitors Center ASAP and then Twitter about it! More »
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By PareeneComment by Mike Jahn: Were those teabags decaffeinated? 1 Responses | Other threads
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jobs
Obama Campaigners Will Work For Food, Status
Hm. Only the Washington Post would call a White House job "the ultimate status symbol in [a] generation's caste system," but regardless: all the Obama kids need work. More »
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By PareeneComment by sample032: "...filled with extraordinary purpose..." That tone's practically religious. 2 Responses | Other threads
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sigh
Finally, Capitools To Get Short-Lived Unwatchable TV Show
The young rich white people of Washington are a sad and attention-starved lot, because they're not famous and attractive and "important," so every year they claim someone will make a television show about them. More »
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By PareeneComment by fileunder: Because there's just never enough Jumbo Slice vomit on 18th Street. This is excellent. 6 Responses | Other threads
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happenings
Drunken Real Worlders to March On Washington?
On Tuesday we asked you to guess the next Real World city. The 18% of you who guessed Washington D.C. might be on to something! If this job posting from producer Bunim/Murray is any indication. More » -
congress
If U Seek Bipartisan Solutions to America's Problems
So last night, while our President tried to explain everything that sucks right now to America and her idiot press, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor went to a Britney Spears concert. More »
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By PareeneComment by ChillbearLatrigue: I'm not sure why this is a news story. There are 562 members of Congress if you include both houses.... 5 Responses | Other threads
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funny jokes
Andrea Mitchell Sings A Song About How Her Husband Broke the Country
DC's annual "Gridiron Club Dinner" is pretty much just like the White House Correspondents Assocation Dinner, except it's White Tie. Barack Obama skipped it, god bless him. More »
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By PareeneComment by 1.1.1.: Although the b.j. remark was funny -- I admit it -- it was also kind of sexist. The majority of this... 8 Responses | Other threads
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news
Journalists At Work!
Earlier today at the Rayburn House Office building, a "mob of reporters" surrounded this man and began peppering him with questions, thinking he was this guy. More »
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By PareeneComment by Botswana Meat Commission FC: "Zippy Duvall":Georgia::"David Smith":normal places 2 Responses | Other threads
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luxury
Obama's Odious Bailout for DC 'Social' Mags
Washington has three sad "social" magazines: Washington Life, Modern Luxury's DC, and Jason Binn's Capitol File. We can't believe all three are still publishing. And Obama had them all over for tea! More » -
air travel
Famed Diaper Senator in Airport Rage Attack
Man, if there was ever a Senator who should not ask strangers "do you know who I am?" it is David Vitter of Louisiana. And yet, that is what he said at Dulles last week.
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By PareeneComment by Truculent: Has "Do you know who I am?" ever worked, anywhere? It's the mating call of the Gold-Plated Asshole, a very... 9 Responses | Other threads
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eliot spitzer
Eliot Spitzer Bought A Building Comically Close to the Scene of His Great Shame
Eliot Spitzer bought a building in DC! It's a 13-story office tower whose tenants include a PR firm. It's also a short, lovely walk from the historic Mayflower Hotel! Look, we mapped it out. More »
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By PareeneComment by scroll_lock: Insert "rear entrance" joke here. 2 Responses | Other threads
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crisis
DC to be Allowed to Vote on Stuff
Conservatives are outraged that DC might eventually have a voting representative in the US House. Not because this means a bunch of poor black people will be marginally more powerful*, but because it's unconstitutional. More »
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By PareeneComment by Almostbanned: It is unconstitutional. Period. The reasons behind its intent are completely irrelevant. Amend the constitution, make it a state, or let... 11 Responses | Other threads
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liveblogging
Liveblogging Obama's Fake Muslim "State of the Union"
Barack Obama is running 7 minutes late and he's not withdrawing from Iraq. God! Bring back that Bush guy! Hey, let's watch and learn. More »
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By PareeneComment by ElleL: Did Bobby Jindal REALLY just tell us that what America needs is the kind of government post-Katrina Louisiana had!? SERIOUSLY? We... 7 Responses | Other threads
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urban studies
Cheer Up, DC Will Never Be Cool
Everyone in New York is sad because DC is so much cooler now, because we lost all the money and they have President Cool Guy. Well don't worry. DC still sucks. More »
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By PareeneComment by Aaron Altman: Can we make fun of their subway system too? Or metro? Or underground train thingee? Whatever they... 18 Responses | Other threads
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fyi
Batman Eating Alone in Congressional Cafeteria
Breaking: Val Kilmer is wandering around a US Congressional office building by himself, for some reason. [Politico]
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By PareeneComment by Moff: For some reason? Or for a very good, secret reason??!? 3 Responses | Other threads
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how things work
Liberal Media Elite Spent Weekend Partying With McCain Staffers
As we all know, John McCain lost the election because the media was biased against him. So his former staffers got wasted with journalists this weekend because they all missed each other so much! More »
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By PareeneComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: it's hard to know which is scarier ... the lies and distortions or mccain's tiny cocktail weenie fingers 4 Responses | Other threads
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panic
New Era Welcomed With DC Chaos
Washington is a town that shuts down when it gets 2 inches of snow, so a couple million hope-junkies clogging the infrastructure has led to full-scale panic. Join us! More »
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By PareeneComment by NotChoinski: Oh America. For the past 8 years you have been the angry drunk at the party, ready to punch anyone... 5 Responses | Other threads
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charm offensive
Columnists Dine With Obama, Write About How Terrible DC Will Be Next Week
Both Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan and Washington Post columnist Gene Robinson had special dates with Barack Obama this week. Do their columns today reflect this new intimacy with the president-elect? More »
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By PareeneComment by Victor Ward: Calling him the first African American president is such an insult to and a marginalization of biracial people. Or maybe I'm... 6 Responses | Other threads
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press releases
Yet Another Special Interest Group Seeking Obama's Ear
Barack Obama visited a famous Washington hot dog restaurant this weekend, thrilling the good people at the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council. More »
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By PareeneComment by Iceland Spar: What's with the passed out, multi-colored hippo leaning on the window? 6 Responses | Other threads
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parties
Barack Obama Is Your New Gay Biker Party
"A spokeswoman for Obama said the president-elect would probably not attend any of the Leather Weekend events." That is a real sentence from a real news story. More »
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By PareeneComment by The Boulevard of Broken Queens: OK: so I have two questions here A. is this a real leather event, or just another faux leather event where... 12 Responses | Other threads
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housing crisis
Obamas Find Home!
With more and more Americans out on the street, one black Chicago family, forced to move to Washington DC but denied entrance to their temporary shelter, found a place to stay this cold January. More »
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By PareeneComment by wonky-tonk: That's why Obama fails to address Israel's war on Gaza, he's just simply too doggone-busy-packing! 3 Responses | Other threads
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crime
TV Host Endures Least Brutal Mugging Ever, Bitches to Mayor
Someone stole $6 from MSNBC's Mika Brzezinkski, outside her fancy Washington DC hotel. It was such a terrible mugging that Joe Scarborough complained about it, to the mayor, on the TV! More »
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By PareeneComment by televisionarie: God, this is the last time I ask Mika Brzezinkski to borrow $20. 3 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
Bush Bars Obamas From America's Guest House
No one knows why but when the Obama's asked to stay in Blair House during the transition so that they could get their kids enrolled in school, as is traditional of most incoming presidents, the current White House said "no." Wtf? Is it Laura's drug den or something? Are they afraid he'll mess the place up? [NYT]
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By PareeneComment by geniusscientist: This is the second item you've written today in which you used an apostrophe in "Obama's." Am I missing... 11 Responses | Other threads
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class war
Obama Dividing, Conquering DC Private School Elite
Oh no, the Obamas are inspiring class warfare in DC! Elite private school attendees are mocking other elite private school attendees, and it's all because of little Malia and Sasha! More »
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By PareeneComment by Victor Ward: And, since I'm from the deep south, I'd just yell, "I prefer grits!" Then everyone would stare at me strangely, unless... 20 Responses | Other threads
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booze
DC To Celebrate Change With Mass Public Intoxication
Washington DC is already the most fun place in the world, what with its many free museums, intoxicated douchebags in popped collars, and Sassiest Boy in America Ian Svenonius. But for one magic week, next month, when the city is choked with hundreds of thousands more tourists than usual, you will be able to drink all night long. The DC City Council approved a 5 a.m. bar close! More »
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By PareeneComment by tunamelt: So D.C. is like LA with the midnight public transit ending...? 10 Responses | Other threads
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parochial news
Hero Jersey Pol Pisses Off DC
When does America care about a Jersey City Councilman? When a Jersey City Councilman urinates on people in Washington, DC. Steven Lipski was arrested in our nation's capital this weekend, because he went to the 9:30 Club to see a Grateful Dead tribute band, got wasted, and peed off the balcony. Idiot drunk middle-aged politicians are DC's cross to bear, of course, and Lipski has given the 9:30 Club staff trouble before: More »
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By PareeneComment by mossdale: If seeing a greatful dead tribute band isn't a crime itself, it should be. 4 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Another Victory: Voters Break Up Congressional Rock Group
You think this election was all fun and games and hope and first black presidents and gay marriage banning? No! No, it was not! There were real things at stake that Americans didn't even think about, lives in the balance that Americans never considered, and now they've gone and torn a family apart with their "voting." That's right, the 110th Congress's only all-member rock band has been forced to disband. More »
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By PareeneComment by Midwesterner in NYC: You know, The Who only have their lead guitarist and vocalist left and it does not stop them from rockin'. 3 Responses | Other threads
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christopher buckley
Chris Buckley's Annus Horribilis
Boy, Christopher Buckley's life sucks, he revealed in the Sunday Times to Sheryl Gay Stolberg. His dad and mom died. And oh, also, all the blogs and the New York Post reported on the son he had out of wedlock with his former book publicist and how Wm F. Buckley excluded this child from his will. And then Buckley endorsed Barack Obama and the National Review fired him! All this happened after his dad, who was kind of a famous asshole, died, and maybe now Chris Buckley is trying to be less of an asshole? As he says: More »
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By PareeneComment by HK_Guy: boy was that interview a softball! She obviously didn't have the cujones to pursue the bastard son he's basically abandoned... 5 Responses | Other threads
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media
'Politico' Will Expand, Save Political Journalism As We Know It
When, back in April, we wondered what exactly political newspaper/website Politico was up to (and do they make money?) we said this: "once the presidential thing is done, Politico will have to go back to what we thought it'd be in the first place—a wonkish, Roll Call-like little trade paper for Congress-watchers and DC insiders." Because pure politics does not make money, and Politico has a lot of big salaries to pay. But Politico didn't listen! Once the election is over, The Times reports (from their new media desk!), Politico will expand! And then the Washington Post will copy them! More »
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By PareeneComment by BoHan: Politico's great. It's the closest thing to "fair and balanced" (but not in that Fox News way) on the web... 3 Responses | Other threads
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literature
DC Newspaperman Pens Book About How Great DC Newspapermen Are
Len Downie was executive editor of the Washington Post for years and years and years. Now he is the Vice President At Large. We don't know what that means except that it maybe gave him time to finish his novel, The Rules of the Game, which is a story of political intrigue, of fucking course. Also of fucking course: there is a newspaper editor in it! Uh oh! Time to name the thinly veiled real-life Post figures involved! More »
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