What incendiary Capitol Hill bar allows its well-heeled (or well-connected) regulars to run its pool tables like their own personal money-making enterprise? They’ll tell you that it’s $50 a game or $5 a ball to play on “their” tables, but don’t even try to win because you might win the game, but once the bouncers remove you from the premises at your opponent’s request, you’ll never collect your money.

Got your own blind item? Let’s talk.

WHICH National Review Online contributor was spotted, in the words of a Wonkette Operative…

in the Pour House last night throwing up in the middle of the goddamned barroom.

Here’s a hint: he is a douchebag.

Put an ad up on craigslist looking for a room to rent and you never know who’ll get back to you. One young man got a response from a legislative staffer to a certain Republican Representative from Ohio. The staffer has the usual requirements in a roommate: clean, quiet, white… MORE »

So what the hell happened in Tokyo this morning? Some of your ideas: MORE »

Dick Cheney is flying around the Pacific calling for more war forever and ever with everyone everywhere this week, and your hard-working press corps is with him every step of the way. Here’s a snippet from this morning’s Mark Silva pool report: MORE »

WHICH local gossip threw a tantrum at the Canadian Embassy the other night? Our tipster writes: MORE »

As seasoned porn fans know, Larry Flynt sends each member of Congress a complimentary copy of Hustler each month. Most offices claim they just toss it, along with all the letters from angry old ladies and all the petitions you sign about mercury in fish or whatever. But according to a former staffer named “Ryan,” one member happily (if secretly) took home each and every issue. MORE »

Ok, neither the time nor the studio are mentioned, but you guys are a smart bunch. Who’s the lucky guy? Guesses in the comments. MORE »

There’s a pretty good li’l blind item in Michael Kinsley’s column this week (thesis: people on the Internet sure are full of themselves MySpace MySpace blog bloggy blog): MORE »

From the inbox: MORE »

Despite denials from the Department of Justice, ABC News is standing by its story that House Speaker Dennis Hastert is “in the mix” of the FBI investigation into congressional corruption. ABC quotes anonymous “law enforcement sources,” including a “senior official” who told ABC, “You guys wrote the story very carefully, but they are not reading it very carefully.”

Who is ABC’s source? This person is in law enforcement, but apparently not at the DoJ proper (in which case he would probably be referred to as a “Justice Department official”).

After the jump, some ruminations from us.

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