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June 2008

Here’s today’s Craigslist DC want ad of the day. I’m looking to get a refrigerator so I can build a kegerator for my house… Congressman Kagen, that’s awfully clever of you.

It’s no mystery that free booze drinks on Capitol Hill are hard to come by these days. Ever since Jack Abramoff pooped the nest, a free drink, bought by your favorite lobbyist, is frowned upon. Perhaps even illegal. So beyond having to bang the barkeep for free shots, how does …

DC Naked Bike Ride Scheduled for Saturday [DCist] Proposed Baseball Stadium Names [Squidpants] Wu-Tang and Online Chess [wuchess] Garfield Minus Garfield [scary]

How to you spell bitter? Perhaps you start by reading this from Marc Ambinder.

Congressional wannabe Jon Powers is taking heat for accepting campaign contributions from a strip club owner. Richard A. Snowden of Buffalo, NY is the alleged entrepreneur. Not only has Powers accepted $7,000 from Snowden and his Rick’s Tally-Ho “gentleman’s cabaret” in Cheektowaga, but Snowden co-hosted a fundraising event for him …

Reports are quickly surfacing, although none of them confirmed, that while Bill Clinton was off hustling Hollywood for campaign cash- money wasn’t the only thing he was “raising”. Vanity Fair is reporting that Billy Clinton once had relations with actress Gina Gershon. As for Gershon – she’s not a happy …

UPDATE: Harry Reid hates bloggers – even his own. Even though Jenny had permission to blog, someone in her office felt it necessary to take the blog down.  Boo. Since blogging is all the rage, it comes as no surprise that DC interns might find the “virtual journal” a great …

As loyal FamousDC readers have probably figured out, we have several contributors here who regularly analyze the daily beltway grind with a little snark and lots of Red Bull.*Believe it or not, we also have contributors [ALMOST] that actually offer good political insight. – – FDC 5 Rules of Engagement …

You can tell from his stance that Donnie is still the bad boy [NKOTB] Keep Your Sidewalks Clean [politics & prose] Can’t Find a Bathroom on the Mall? [let it go] Drudge Report for Sports [Bleacher Seats] Bill Clinton on the Prowl? [Election Geek] NBA Finals are Here [Lakers vs. …

Here’s today’s Craigslist DC want ad of the day. Looking for a hammock stand. Must be able to support at least 250 lbs… Because even Al Gore enjoys a nice, leisurely hammock nap during the unbearable summer months- brought to us by global warming.

It looks like more DC political reporters are using Social Networking sites to track down sources, look-up background information on staffers, and investigate ex-girlfriends. We know what you’re thinking – and yes, you need to log onto Facebook and take down that drunken beer bong picture of you at Dewey …

Mr. Odd Ball himself, Robert Basler of Reuters, is at it again – this time responding to one fan’s email: Hello, Blog Guy – Like many voters, I base my decision almost entirely on how good the candidates are at acting out scenes from classic literature. So far this political …

A tipster sent us a link to this DC related blog, which recently sponsored an interesting contest. The contest supposedly ended a few days ago, but we’re going to enter anyway. Attention all DC’ers: bloggers, photogs, neighbors, friends – if you’re in DC (or okay, just this once, the greater …

It’s perhaps the strangest phenomenon in the history of NBC News, but we too are addicted. Chuck Todd mania has clearly swept the nation and we’ve found yet another website dedicated to all things Chuck Todd. [Viva Chuck Todd] This well constructed and colorful site has Chuck Todd drinking games, …

Yesterday we posted here about Politico’s unhealthy obsession with the Drudge Empire. We speculated this: So why the love fest? Perhaps it has something to do with the regularly appearing Politico stories that hit the front page of Drudge only seconds after they’re filed. Well, well – less than 24 …