How to get through airport security quickly. Note: This is not recommended by TSA, but should be.

Are you gearing up for your 2012 run? [Barbour] Are you still on probation and got arrested with your wife? [T.I.] Are you still trying to plug an oil well? [BP] Whatever you’re doing today, do it well. We’ve got a hurricane coming this weekend.

And now for the scariest thing that you’ll read today. NBC Washington: 8-Foot Shark Caught in Potomac River H/T Kristen Soltis

Safe to say she’s not talking about Rep Patrick McHenry. @karenhanretty I knew a politician who insisted his staff visit hotels in advance to determine the height of the showerhead. Politicians are divas. Period. We do the Twitter.  Check us out.

A new internet website just popped up and they’re selling t-shirts just in time for fall. The Tea Party might have a quasi-mainstream official platform, but it also seems to be a magnet for far right loonies, angry racists, borderline psychotics and those that are simply grossly misinformed. These shirts …

Welcome to the wired world: Hostage Taking 2.0 Here’s a link to the gunman’s manifesto. That link is farked, try this one. Live streaming [Fox 5 News] And here’s a picture snapped by an employee: UPDATE: The photo is a picture of a plainclothes officer – not the gunman. UPDATE: …

Meghan McCain recently sat down with GMA’s George Stephanopoulos, where she was asked about being fired by her father’s presidential campaign. Meghan quickly clarifies: “I wasn’t fired, I was asked to leave and not come back.” Ah.  Totally different.

…perhaps that should be the name of our next rock band. [byt] big h/t to Brightest Young Things

I’d eat at Ben’s Chili Bowl everyday.

This ain’t right.  This ain’t right at all.

Schultz vs. Beck [crowd wars] Mark Zuckerberg [Caesar] At your desk [Standing] Travel [grounded]

Roll Call’s photographer superstar Tom Williams snapped Jim Billimoria at the top of the Rotunda.

George Alafoginis Carly Baker Freddy Barnes Brendan Buck Catalina Cabal Liam Donovan Natalie Grantham Bettina Inclan Alexa Marrero Jesse Thomas

Rick Klein will be drafting fantasy FB while Tweeting Obama Iraq speech. if I draft David Petraeus, please excuse me in advance.

The CBS News vs. Fox News battle heats up as Brian Montopoli explains the science behind their Glenn Beck rally crowd calculations. CBS News: Glenn Beck “Restoring Honor” Rally Crowd Estimate Explained