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Please Release Me: Dirty Rice Money
This press release just showed up in our inbox: California Tortilla Hides $1 Bills to Promote $5 Fiesta Combo ROCKVILLE, MD – Is there anything better than finding 100% FREE money? Nope. First of all, thanks for answering the question for us. Secondly, where exactly are you hiding these dollar …
Your WTF of the Week: Wax On, Wax Off
This is apparently what happens when you trail by 20+ points… Gov. Charlie Crist speaking candidly about his Marco Rubio: Because he’s trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative. And yet just in reason weeks, two weeks ago it has come out in news accounts he had a …
The State of the Internet [JESS3]
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Senate Warns Staffers to Avoid Drudge Report
This seems suspect: Just as the healthcare drama in the capitol reaches a grand finale, congressional officials are warning employees to avoid the DRUDGE REPORT! The Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works issued an urgent email late Monday claiming the DRUDGE REPORT is ‘responsible for the many viruses popping …
Famously Headlined: At Least It Rhymes
The only thing going well for Nancy today, a rhyming headline courtesy of POLITICO: Pelosi’s grip on House slips Next week she gets her very own haiku.
The Only News Worth Reporting Today
Sure, we could talk about this: Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.” [TMI] Naked or not, …
Hyper Hill
Meet the Monument [feast after famine] PostSecret [Sunday secrets] Cherry Blossom [webcam] Wizards [Truth About It] I [not a number]
Famously Headlined: The Washington Bullsh*t Report
Andrew Sullivan speaks highly of Mark Halperin in his latest blog post: No one does it better than Mark Halperin. Every single thing he cites in his latest brain-dead critique is, I believe, tangibly false, and the moronic attempt to grab some pageviews by a counter-intuitive and utterly dumb analogy …
Famously Quoteworthy: Tell Us How You Really Feel
Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY), in a radio interview, on the White House chief of staff: “Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn… He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.” Snap. …
Chuck Todd Blasts Drudge Report [Mediaite]
Chuck Todd: “There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.”
Adrian Fenty’s Friends
Nikita Stewart and Paul Schwartzman probably aren’t getting out of parking tickets any time soon. WaPo: Friends share in D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s good fortune
Famous Friday [Round Up]
The WaPo can’t quit Rahm, David Broder will likely get a crappy Secret Santa gift, USA hockey still rules, Shannon Flaherty is heading back to the hill, Charlie Rangel has a little more free time now, Jay-Z lit up the White House, stare down, meet Josh Rogin, Obama’s cholesterol went …