• DC: a less shitty place to live than other places that are more shitty. [Lawsomnia]
• Redskins’ marketing department great at coming up with ways to, “distract our moronic fans from realizing how we constantly bend them over and fuck them in the ass.” [Why I Hate DC]
• List obsessed Forbes magazine ranks DC 9th in best cities for singles. [Metroblogging DC]
• The ranking would have been higher if not for the fat flasher of 16th street. [Shiftless Badger]
• City Paper EIC Erik Wemple is less of a journalist, more of a crusader against hypocrisy in city government and, ah, doggy day spas. [Circumlocutor]
• The alt-weekly can, however, still be trusted to not miss a single instance of the loony-toon crazy ramblings of Brother Marion.
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• Trapped on a 60 year-old boat with families from the fly-over states wearing rubber duck beaks - being a tourist in DC really does suck that bad. [Best Summer Ever]

• Ain’t fallin’ for that again. No sir, Marion’s not gonna get set up by your bitch-ass blog. [Beyond the Mall]
• If you don’t go out on Wednesday nights how are you ever going learn that the “ass mélange that is reggaeton” is now a Hispanic pan-national anthem? [Panama's Propositions]
• Right now in Petworth a hipster is feverishly typing out a blog post with the working title, “Spotting Mainstream Members of the Material Culture In Their Natural Habitat.” [Circle V]

* Sure is gonna suck to be working at the Dupont Krispy Kreme this week. [Metroblogging DC] MORE »

You came through again, everyone. This week’s sightings are all over both the map and the stratified Washington hierarchy. Helen Thomas apparently likes to eat with the kewl kids, even if she’s just gumming it. Kevin Nealon, Newt Gingrich, and Marion Barry pull some nice trim. Ted Koppelhas a death wish. Morgan Spurlock keeps trying to supersize his career and Tom Friedman’s mustache of wisdom has nothing to do with Napoleon.

A whole rack more, as standard, after the jump.

Please don’t forget that Wonk’d is entirely tipster driven. So when you spot someone famous out there, make a note in your PDA, ’cause you’ll have other hazy memories to sort through in the morning. Once you feel that reminder buzzing you, email us here, with “Wonk’d” or “Sighting” in the subject line (along with the name of the celeb that you saw). Thanks!

And speaking of sights to see: YES, we are aware of the frightening photos of Katherine Harris “getting her cougar on” with a cute young college journalist. We will be blogging about them shortly.

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• Trent Lott: “Bloggers claim I was their first pelt, and I believe that. I’ll never read a blog.” Awww, Trent! Don’t be that way! I bet Denny Hastert’ll give you shout out! Though it’ll look more like an inward mumble. [CSM, via Yahoo]
• Remember: the Twelve Days of Fitzmas continue until Efitzany (or until somebody has one). [Grammar.Police]
• And if you make your own mess, don’t blab to the press! [Thrown For A Loop]
• Guess who else was in court today? [WTOP, via Rock Creek Rambler]
• This year, Halloween in Virginia to less challenging, terrifying [NBC News]