A tipster sends the following invite to all FamousDC readers: What has become a wildly successful event in New York City and Boston is now taking DC by storm. If you love Judd Apatow movies, Freakonomics and all things random, you MUST attend Nerd Nite DC on Saturday, December 5th …

Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

CNN’s Ed Henry proved he’s no slouch when it comes to flexing his math skills. From Twitter: President Obama has a 71-car motorcade from the Beijing airport, including Chinese greeting vehicles ! In our opinion 65 seems reasonable, 71 is a little over the top.

In four years, colleges will give out scholarships for this kind of thing — until then, we’re not calling this a sport.  [impressive though]

Lou Dobbs had eight million reasons to leave CNN. CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave. [how many holograms does that buy?] In other words, if you combine the salaries of 50 members of Congress, that’s what CNN forked over. …

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but this one from the Iowa GOP’s “Blogger Row” is only worth two: C’mon man! Now, we aren’t saying these Iowa GOPers are giving the rest of us bloggers a bad name, but next time you do an event, give us a …

Teenage Mutant Ninja [sweater ] Zandria [date ] Tip [Refugee ] Cat [bath ]

If you bought into the hype like we did, you too were under the impression that the Obama campaign invented Twitter. President Barack Obama, the source of one of the world’s most-followed Twitter account, said Monday he’s never used the microblogging service. [say it ain’t so] What’s next: The Easter …

Breaking news from the WaPo: Supreme Court declines to take Redskins’ naming case Native American activists had claimed that team’s nickname is so offensive that it does not deserve trademark protection. We also enjoyed this headline courtesy of the WaPo: Are the Redskins back? Unlikely, but thanks for asking.

Where did that come from? Dan Steinberg: L-Boogie and The No-Names help Skins win How pumped is Chris Cooley ? Todd Yoder caught a touchdown.

Enjoy the week.

Tina Gray left Cornyn’s office for a new gig with DCI, Alex Treadway going to soon-to-be-news-site The Daily Caller, Rep. Jared Polis made Monday for John Pappas, The DC tweed bike ride is Sunday, Washington Life magazine names DC’s most creative in new media, America said thank you to our …