Well dammit, it appears Joe the Plumber has successfully metamorphosed from rat-faced creep into literary sad sack in the space of about three months. Not so long ago he was riding high, saying dumb things on all the cable news shows and even going to Israel to lament how nobody censors the press in wartime anymore. But now he’s just another washed-up debut author who can’t move more than 5 books in a reading. MORE »

All you people have already read American Wife, right? If you did, you already know the “secret ending” to Laura Bush’s memoirs, which involves a Venezuelan sex orgy and nuclear war. But for those fans who can’t get enough of the First Lady, she will pen an Official Account of her life. The tentative title is Why Nice Librarians Should Not Marry Ignorant Clowns. MORE »

* Video footage of this morning’s high-speed, multi-county car chase. [Metroblogging DC]
* Review of Rehab at DCAC. [Solarize This ...]
* For the golfer. [DCist]
* List of DC’s outdoor author sculptures, Dante, Puskin, Neruda, more Dante. [The Happy Booker]
* Guster is apparently pretty famous. [Last Second Thoughts]