Welcome to D.C., where you get taxed at the grocery store for using plastic bags – plowing streets during snow storms takes city officials days to complete – and every two years you get called for jury duty. FamousDC presents… Scenes from a Washington DC Jury Pool Waiting Room You …

So solid. Congrats to the happy couple. Even as Ashley waited patiently for milkshakes at Spike Mendelsohn’s “Good Stuff Eatery” on Capitol Hill, she had no idea that she was surrounded by members of the Capital Hearings, a DC-based a cappella group. Posing as customers, a bus boy, and even …

Our friends over at Cloture Club have compiled a guide for DC interns to succeed. Rule #5 – Keep it to yourself. Don’t blog/facebook/gchat/tweet about it. Write down all your funny stories for a tell all book some day. More often than not, publicly divulging the details of your time …

Palin was rolling, but no one knows why [thunder] Weiner’s mess [hack job?] Memorial Day [pic] No dancing allowed in public [in Washington, DC] It’ll feel like 100 degrees today [but you already knew that]

Y’all have fun out there! Dog collar by TuckerBlair.com

Widespread Panic’s last run?, where is Matt Lakin?, Biden 2016 kicked off, happy anniversary to Molly and Matt Haase, Luke Marchant is on the move again, Kasie Hunt celebrated a birthday, Arthur Bochner got engaged to Arden Mickelson, Chris Perkins had a photo shoot, Netanyahu addressed a Joint Session of …

This will be the strangest article you read all week.  And perhaps the funniest.  [horse virus] Horse herpes outbreak forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies While the state has yet to officially cancel any events involving horses that might have been exposed to a local recent equine herpes outbreak, …

Rove on Palin [rules don’t apply] Shrimp on treadmills [really?] MySpace, not the only thing Zuckerberg killed [pig] John Edwards [secret meeting] Screen on the Green [returns] Wasserman Schultz slams GOP for not backing U.S. auto industry [drives an import]

The Senate Employment Bulletin is just trying to be honest.

Our good friends at The Washingtonian included our HILLstory infographic in this month’s issue.

A 13-year old Arlington, VA resident is way better at soccer than you are. h/t NextRound

Would it go something like this?  [too good to be true?] In the not too distant future, you go to hail a cab. Almost immediately a black sedan, which is less than six years old or has fewer than 300,000 miles on it, pulls up. The driver, a conscientious, properly …

This is the only good thing about hurricane season on the East Coast. [stock up] Virginians who want to stock up on hurricane and other emergency supplies such as batteries, flashlights and bottled water have just a few days left to stock up tax-free. Virginia’s seven-day tax holiday began Wednesday …

Ed Schultz apologizes [takes a leave] Pelosi vs. Ryan hashtag war [Tweet that] TSA pat downs [Congressman speaks] Seersucker social prep [NBC] Let the investigations on Arnold begin [oh, boy] Stop taking pictures of federal buildings [what?]

Without YouTube, our lunch hours would be empty. [3 billion daily views] h/t @halfecstatic