Wonkette

This week, spies caught The Prime Minister of Mongolia, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Good Charlotte, Bob Saget, Anthony Williams, Thomas Friedman, and Condoleezza Rice bumming around DC like common tourists. Their stories are after the jump.

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This week’s Wonk’d hits close to home, as everyone spotted looks spaced out and bitter. Laura Bush’s face lets George know that if she’s gonna be up early she better have a drink in her hand, and Dennis Kucinich may not need that particular poison, but he’s got his own way to relax. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer party at South East’s most deluxe Chinese joint, George Stephanopoulos shows he has almost mastered the art of exchanging money for goods and services, and Andrew Sullivan pays for WiFi from The Man just to avoid being spotted at the free place down the street, and ends up here anyway. These aggravated big-shots and last week’s douchiness explained — if you can begrudge us another click.

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• It’s that time of year — you know, for corduroy pants, noticing you’re a 29-year-old virgin, and DC Architecture Week. [Metroblogging DC]

• Mayor Williams cheats on Linda Cropp with Caribbean Vacation, New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.[The DC Universe]
• Your day wasn’t as bad as you think. Unless you too went to Asylum’s birthday party, drank Sparks, touched a manhole. [I Am A Lefty]
• Blindfold yourself and get sexy on someone, advises local “breathing diamond.” In other words, read Casual Encounters and masturbate. [District Insider]
• “You know how I keep bitching about the $611,000,000+ the city is spending on a baseball stadium? This is why. Let me remind DC-lovers that the District considers a recreational activity more important than accounting for the deaths of the city’s most vulnerable.” (Most vulnerable because they are retarded. No, seriously.) [why.i.hate.dc.]

* What does Butterstick want for his birthday? A few less corporate sponsors and a lot more bamboo. [National Zoo] MORE »

You need keen eyes to spot celebrities in this town — unless, of course, they herald their own presence, as did Bill Cosby and Thomas Friedman this week. It’s also hard to keep a low profile if you’re sporting a shock of silver hair, like Anderson Cooper, or have a nuclear-family-sized security squad, like Anthony Williams.

George Stephanopoulos must have a fetish for being Wonk’d, because he can’t seem to stay hidden. But even discretion doesn’t work all the time, as Condi Rice found out. It’s also totally impossible to be inconspicuous if you’re 7′2″ — and Dikembe Mutombo doesn’t even try.

We all know they’re dying to be seen, so just help feed their celebrit-ego by sending us all your sightings, by email, with “Wonk’d” or “Sighting” in the subject line (along with of the name of the spotted celeb). On behalf of all the dying-for-attention famous people out there, we thank you.

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* Going out drinking with interns? Better be ready for the consequences. [The Blonde Menace] MORE »

* Maybe the souvenir stand just isn’t interested in selling the merchandise of NFL teams with blatantly racist names. That, or the reports of Dan Snyder’s non-licensed jersey death squad are more accurate than we thought. [Freakonomics] MORE »

* The Marine Corps Marathon registration started today, but that information is totally useless to anyone reading this. [Metroblogging DC] MORE »

Throughout the day, we’ve delivered celebrity sightings of Bob Novak, that human-animal hybrid; more Supreme Court justices than you can shake a stick at; and the man that everyone’s talking about, Jack Abramoff.

Now we bring you an added bonus: a sighting of a possible future POTUS, Senator John McCain!

Sitting in National, waiting to catch the shuttle flight to NYC, when McCain sits down in front of me. Multiple people keep coming up to him to talk. A woman in her mid 50’s comes up and says, “Why, Senator McCain, you are so much better
looking in person!” McCain says thank you.

As she leaves, I lean in and say, “Senator, I know how hard it is to be so devilishly good looking.” McCain starts cracking up, and I continue by saying, “I’m glad that worked — it was that or a Jack Abramoff
joke!”

The laughing stops; McCain proceeds to raise his paper over his face. I get up and walk away.

Good stuff! And the fun’s not over yet. Go the jump page — click on that pointing finger — for sightings of such boldface names as Susan Collins, Tony Williams, Mark Warner, Karl Rove, Joe Lockhart, Paul Begala, Bill Frist, and many more!

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• Embedded journalists on the War on Christmas. [Mr. Sun]
• The NYT confuses the black people, even though one of them is NOT wearing a bow tie. [Gawker]
• Why is that purple fingers seem so… dirty? [GNN, TMFTML]
• Focus on the Family on how sending a man shopping makes him gay: “Noodles are replaced by artichoke hearts, milk exchanged for broccolini, the sought-after turkey traded for a single hairy coconut.” [G.p]
• War on Christmas train wreck on CNN. It ends with how the Nazis ALSO banned Christmas! [Political Teen] MORE »