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Washington City Paper’s Amanda Hess: The Fred Phelps Counter-Protest in Photos

With friends like these … WaPo’s David S. Broder: The fable of Emanuel the Great RELATED: Inside the Mind and Inbox of Rahm Emanuel

Deadspin’s Barry Petchesky: Beat Writer Continues Nationals Coverage, Sans Newspaper Just because the Washington Times fired their entire sports section, Mark Zuckerman isn’t going to stop doing his job. For someone to cover the Nationals voluntarily, I’m not sure it’s going too far to call him a modern day Jesus.

h/t 1 -Ben Smith h/t 2 -Jim Geraghty h/t 3 – Rick Wilson

Politico’s Erika Lovley: Jason Chaffetz: Ax Hill staff tax cheats

This is terrible news for the “Bring Your Child to Work” program. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how a child was allowed to direct air traffic at the nation’s sixth-busiest airport – New York’s JFK International. [brilliant] We’re quite certain the passengers were thrilled when they heard the news.

Sarah Called It [Ocho Cinco] Girlofwords [filet-o-fish] Feeling Good [spring] Gilbert [freaking out] Condos [no more] http://bunnycakes.typepad.com/bunny_cakes/2010/03/feeling-good.html

DCist’s W. Jacarl Melton: Jay-Z To Make Appearance at Chinatown AT&T Store For those of you who enjoy a good celebrity sighting outside of the ranking member of some Senate subcommittee, you might want to venture down to Chinatown this afternoon. We’re told Jay-Z will be stopping the flagship AT&T …

Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell

Eastern Motors will do your taxes for free. Seriously. At Eastern Motors … My Blog’s My Credit

Days after he announced to the nation that he had high cholesterol, President Obama enjoyed a heart healthy meal. [fried chicken] The only thing missing from his meal — Lipitor.

We started “Please Release Me ” to point out zany press releases that show up in our tipster mailbox . We’ve seen good, bad and really bad releases.  This one gets filed under: “Wait, You’re Telling Us That’s NOT Illegal??” Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee …

Was this done on purpose? [notice the caption] h/t Howard Kurtz

The Atlantic: Gay Marriage Clears Final Hurdle In the District Of Columbia At midnight tonight, same-sex marriage will be legal in the District of Columbia.