This cracks us up: Levin Gets Hit In the Face with Dutch Apple Pie Not to be mistaken for “regular apple pie.” Sen. Carl Levin was hit in the face with an apple pie during a meeting this morning with constituents in Big Rapids, Mich. Sharon Dunn, the general manager …

Meredith Shiner: Today is the day the @politico gods are coming down and granting me a new BlackBerry. I have been waiting for this day forever.

We bet this ruined the day for Clay Travis. Glenn Davis: Lane Kiffin: “My Model Was Obama” In Dealing With Crisis

Congrats to Erin on her new gig with Real Clear Politics. Her first story showed up today. Real Clear Politics: Portman Fine-Tunes Message in Key Senate Race

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Marc Ambinder: After November, I’ll be joining National Journal as White House correspondent. A little less blogging, a lot more reporting. Very excited.

Welcome Farkers [Drew Curtis rocks] Dog Days of Summer [photo contest]

Have the Rex Ryan pep talks on Hard Knocks fired up the Politico folks? Playbook put on its big boy pants and spent the weekend jacking people up. On Sunday Playbook ran an advertisement (with no sponsor attribution to parent company Albritton) to pop Comcast and NBC: ** ADVERTISEMENT: A …

Chris Cooley turned orange.

Happy Friday the 13th, Charlie Rangel filibustered the House, Andrew Sullivan likes to do druwings, thank you for teaching prostitutes to handle their booze, this calls for a leg kick, Chuck’s tired, Desiree Rogers got a new gig, Chinese prostitutes benefit from your pay check, photo entries are rolling in,  …