Our thoughts are and prayers are with Congressman Jack Murtha’s family and staff. Rachel Slajda: Rep. John Murtha Dead At 77

CBS News/AP: Buried Mid-Atlantic Faces More Snow 10. More. Inches. Of. Snow Issued by The National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington, MD 3:04 pm EST, Mon., Feb. 8, 2010 … WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY… THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED …

This is for the thousands of you bored DC residents waiting on the snow plow to show up.

Some DC residents erected an igloo in honor of Al Gore, the Ice Prince.

Stay warm friends. Go Saints! Oh, and the Caps are on FIRE.

This is what happens when the power goes out during a snow storm. [h/t BS via Don Seymour]

One of our winners sent in this picture from the Georgetown vs. Villanova game today. Thank you to our friends over at DC Lottery for the tickets. They have contests via Facebook and Twitter all the time, so join in on the fun.

Waiting on the FamousDC snow photo… courtesy of David Almacy

Has he learned nothing? Seriously. Former FEMA chief Michael Brown isn’t the most popular guy in New Orleans, and his Super Bowl pick won’t help: “I have to go with the Colts,” Brown told the POLITICO Podcast. “I just tend to follow them more and I’ve just never been a …

Doug Heye got a Drudge bomb and a new gig, Jon Stewart is more powerful than most politicians, a demon sheep stole the news week, speaking of Newsweek, Jim Treacher was struck by a black SUV, NBC continues to leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, Ed Chen saved the …

*Yes, we originally misspelled amateur.  That’s the way we roll. Facebook gets another facelift:  [just when we got used to the old version] Facebook on Thursday began rolling out a new design to its more than 350 million users, with various tweaks to encourage people to use the popular social …

Restaurateur Michael Landrum is cranking out more Ray’s and more great quotes: “The truth is that rich people suck. Important people suck,” Landrum said. Not all of them, of course, but the “people who define themselves by whether they are wealthy or important. They are the worst to have to …

cjhardwick @FamousDC is my favorite blog because it’s like TMZ for ugly people.

Besides being an enabler for pub crawls, Foursquare technology seems to serve little purpose. If you’d like to make a case for the application, please email us at [email protected] and let us know why we shouldn’t poop on it.

We had to read this twice it was so mind-blowing: According to court records obtained by the Chicago Tribune, Scott Lee Cohen, a millionaire pawnbroker who prevailed with a narrow plurality in the crowded primary for lieutenant governor, was accused by his ex-girlfriend, a prostitute, of holding a knife to …