Wonkette

Well, this is a terrible disappointment. The City of St. Paul decided to charge bars $2500 for a license to stay open till 4 a.m. during the anxious, angry slog known as the Republican National Convention — an event to make a drinker out of anyone — not a single establishment has applied. A POX ON ALL THEIR HOUSES. MORE »

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg is worth tens of millions of dollars, but because he is drunk most of the time — including a 2004 trip to Kazakhstan where he “had several shots of vodka before he fell off a horse, got trampled on by another and broke at least one rib” — he usually sleeps in his Capitol Hill office. He has absolutely no idea where he is or what he is doing at all times. So what is this $300 in campaign money he dropped for “lodging” at Capitol Hill’s delightful Tune Inn bar, where they don’t have “lodging” in the traditional sense? MORE »

If hard-living state legislators have their way, bars in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area may stay open until 4 a.m. during the Republican National Convention in early September. One aggrieved tipster writes to Wonkette: “Sure, us regular alcoholics have to stop at 1:00AM and the Republicans get to drink till 4:00AM. What next, hooker discount coupons?” [KARE11.com]

We write to you from the bar upstairs at the Stephen F. Austin hotel, which is HOPPING. Very serious young people in navy blazers gather in one corner watching a wide-screen TV with local returns. OK, the blazers only number 1 or 2, and the wearers look young in the sense of “under 40, maybe”, but we are going for ATMOSPHERE here. We are nursing a $9 Maker’s and ginger ale and listening to people discuss the race in the 10th Congressional District, in which a savvy handsome young International Expert named Dan Grant locked horns with a silly old teevee judge from Houston. MORE »

* If a Metro bus hits you, you probably deserved it. So forget about the lawsuit, okay? [why.i.hate.dc]
* An entire blog dedicated to Happy Hours! Bookmark it. Use it. [Tremonkey's DC Bar Tour]
* DC on its way to having a non-black majority of the population, and it didn’t even take a hurricane. [DCist]
* “Perfect blend of professionalism and restrained sensuality. i melt when you look at me. let’s spend all summer dancing around the elephant in the room.” [Craigslist]

Just because your friends won’t host a SOTU drinking-game festival doesn’t mean you have to sit at home alone with Dubya. Go on out there and have as good a time as anyone can have these days. There are parties at: MORE »

• Roll Call reviews newish bars. “…urban renewal of the H Street corridor…. In the bordello-themed suite, plush red velvet covers all sitting areas, and an interesting mural of cartoon blood borders the room’s ceiling.” Funny the things you don’t notice when you’re drunk. [Roll Call]
• Oh snap, another blogger fired. “I was minding my own business when the VP called me into the conference room… laid out in front of the VP were 2 huge folders, labeled “PART 1″ and “PART 2…Every blog entry I had ever written for the entire year I worked at this joint was in that folder… You could tell I worked for something that was only slightly related to Congress sometimes, but that was it.” [Unemployed Blogger]
• Is paying in cash crass? What about a $1000000 dollar bill? [DC Urban Family]
• Doogie Howser, M.D. was first blogger ever. [PR Slave DC]
• “Facebook Gets Black Eye from Facelift Backlash.” Who’s the stalker now, bitch? [Catch Up Lady]

• New York blogger survives very scawy weekend in D.C., “I didn’t realize I had accidentally taken a detour down to fucking Mexico.” The story ends well, however, when he finds a lil’ piece of home at Columbia Station. [This Is What We Do Now]
• BOSS - I HATE YOU. [Craigslist]
• WP endorses Fenty, Express thinks “this endorsement could spark some interesting thoughts.” So far, no one cares. [Express]
• D.C. Voter Guides misprinted, you may end up at the wrong polling place. We offer this by way of public service, although we doubt you were planning to vote or are even registered in the District. [DCist]

• Zagat restaurant guide gets punk’d as giggle inducing puns evade detection. [Brunch Bird]

• Fistful of change goes missing, clues point to DC-DMV employees know as “Half Street Mafia.” [Countersignature]
• Hundreds of punk rock fans forced to call mom for an early pick-up last night after 9:30 club sorta caught fire. [DCeiver]
• WaPo’s “best bets” rankings not as useful as a list of the worst bars in DC, compiled by ” drunkards and vagrants.” [Cafe 227]

• Page Six: Laura Bush seems to have enjoyed The Devil Wears Prada. [NYP]

• Ben Widdicombe: Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund,, being sued for allegedly beating an ex-girlfriend, began his civil case yesterday. [NYDN]
• Heard on the Hill: Ted “the Internet is not a truck” Stevens is enjoying a bit of notoriety on said internet. “Series of Tubes” t-shirts are available… Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) lists her occupation as “mother.” Her children are 21 and 24. [Roll Call]
• Reliable Source: Popular dive Sign of the Whale is closing… An unnamed high-profile DC lobbyist is a very bad boss. [WP]