Wonkette

* “This is the Lent of baseball. We wait in patient hope for the return of the game that brings us summertime joy and no shortage of rollercoaster moments.” [Metroblogging DC]
* “So put down your cheese hats and irrational love for the Packers and listen up. You have a primary today.” [Arjewtino]
* “In case you weren’t already convinced that the one-man crusade against Silver Spring’s Discovery Channel, which also produced a series of ads promoting the protest in the print edition of Express, was more than a little light on widespread support, take a look at the photo above.” [DCist]
* “So here we go, with the District, as always, playing gameboard for right-wing and neo-liberal dreams of private contractor utopias, where we can privatize all services because someone in economics 101 talked about competition and free markets.” [Countersignature]
* “As long as it isn’t Baja Fresh. I hate Baja Fresh. You made me hate it.” [Eavesdrop DC]

* “Last week’s strike, on Monday, definitely affected morning commutes and traffic, but seemed to end before really causing problems for folks trying to catch a cab on their way from work to happy hour.” [DCist]
* “Do you hate your job? Are you doing the same dumb ass shit every day?” [Diary of a Mad DC Cabbie]
* “Kellie and I voted at our precinct at 6am, the third and fourth people in line, and there was only one check-in table; one woman read off the name from her book, while the other checked that against the name in her book.” [Below the Beltway]
* “Here I am, all of 25 years old, and I finally get a say in who will become nominee on the Democratic ticket. I’ve waited a long time for this.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* “San Diego is the best! It’s always great weather, even in the winter.” [Eavesdrop DC]

* “What? You don’t care about how Virginia or Maryland voters can make a selection in the Tuesday primary? You want to know how DC folks can do it?” [Metroblogging DC]
* “The City Paper’s Mike DeBonis (aka Loose Lips) provides a handy roundup of endorsements so far by city officials.” [DCist]
* “We’re totes impressed with this DC themed coffee table.” [DCeiver]
* “Internationally, I have received visitors from 123 countries.” [Arjewtino]
* “I love how people pretend that DC used to be stuffy but now it’s very chic. Well, it’s still stuffy and these young professionals and empty nesters are a big part of the problem. Nothing says ‘hip’ like a single ladder-climbing lawyer in his 30s.” [why.i.hate.dc]

* “Some folks were apparently unaware that Virginia’s Republican and Democratic primaries are being held Feb. 12, a week from today, along with Maryland and D.C..” [DCist]
* “People are shuffling around, not making eye contact, as I prance around shirtless, my body painted green, purple and silver, the only person enjoying the significance of this day. Bethesda — I ask — what gives?” [Metroblogging DC]
* “Yesterday was, apparently, the first day of the weekly taxi cab strike. Next week drivers will strike on Tuesday. The next week on Wednesday.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* “This ‘hyperculture’ encompasses a wide range of expression — from the wizardry of robots and the dazzling action of anime to the hypnotic movement of butoh and the propulsive energy of taiko.” [Brightest Young Things]
* “Tuesday is hogging all the attention this week being both Fat and ‘Super.’ What about lil’ old Thursday? It’s the start of the Chinese New Year.” [Metrocurean]

* “The Taxicab Industry Group is encouraging a taxi strike to run from 7 a.m. Monday to 7 p.m. Monday in response to D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s plan to switch District cabs to a time-and-distance based
meter system.” [WTOP]
* “A House of Delegates committee rejected Monday a proposal to raise Virginia’s gas tax by 5.5 cents a gallon, to 23 cents.” [WP]
* “It’s different from the way most other Mid-Atlantic cities approach plowing, but seemingly the only real down side, assuming Fenty can pull it off, is that it will just cost more to do each time.” [DCist]
* “There are over 50 advertisements in the Farragut North station alone. Yeah, I counted.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* “Most of you DC residents love me for fucking those DC cab drivers up don’t you? Fuck them!” [Diary of a Mad DC Cabbie]

* “Dan Snyder goes on his annual power-trip trying to convince the rest of the NFL and his Redskins’ poor, unfortunate fanbase that he’s not merely a competent owner, but a brilliant one.” [DCist]
* “After months of only visiting my MySpace profile in order to delete spam friend requests from half-nude women, I’ve reached the end of the line.” [WUSA9]
* “A hard drive containing the Social Security numbers of nearly 40,000 Georgetown students, alumni, faculty and staff was reported stolen from the office of Student Affairs on Jan. 3.” [The Hoya]
* “At this point it’s not even about the money anymore, but she FUCKED with the wrong cab driver.” [Dairy of a Mad DC Cabbie]
* “The Washington Academy shutdown will mark the first midschool-year closure of a D.C. charter site.” [The Examiner]

* “We can’t let them get away with doing it anymore. Join me in the PROTEST AGAINST THE DISCOVERY NETWORK.” [DCist]
* “I know Pat Buchanan is so declasse that he puts ice cubes in his white wine. I have Maureen Dowd’s and Reed Landry’s ticket stubs from the Neil Diamond tribute concert they attended last week. I know that
Charles Krauthammer uses the fastest wheelchair I’ve ever seen.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* “Davis says he almost left Congress two years ago to head a trade association and has had headhunters calling him. But, he says he still wants to see what he can get accomplished on Capitol Hill.” [WTOP]
* “With crafty cocktails popping up with greater frequency (and mixologists moving all over town), I got to wondering about the state of the cocktail in DC. [Metrocurean]

* “It’s heartbreaking to consider it took a crime of the magnitude of the Jacks case for the city to get serious about overhauling its child welfare agency.” [DCist]
* “I am proud to announce that my alma mater, American University, has equaled the accomplishments of Harvard, Brown, and Columbia in one important regard.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* “So, I finally got the website up and running.” [Eavesdrop DC]
* “I had quite a few stripper friends at JP’s and of course I go there because I enjoy the great gourmet food they serve, I don’t pay attention to the girls with hot nude bodies with their boobies hanging out.” [Diary of a Mad DC Cabbie]
* “I figured, this was just another stump speech, just another appearance. I was wrong. The line was already four blocks long.” [Metroblogging DC]

Jesus christ didn’t the Bloggies just happen? And didn’t they happen just before that, and before that? Everything is an institution, including and especially the beloved blog-award system known as The Bloggies. We are honored to be nominated again as “Best Politics Blog That Hates Politics.” And happy nomination to our comrades Glenn Reynolds and Markos Moulitsas and Arianna Huffiington and John Amato, who have joined us in this rotten pursuit for so many, many years. [The Bloggies]

* “Anyhow, they’re filtering the internet in DC offices now, so you don’t have to worry about needing to hose the desks down with Lysol.” [Metroblogging DC]
* “Because, Jesus Christ, it’s loud and it’s annoying. It’s getting in the way of my enjoyment of Lifetime movies and Project Runway and that shit won’t stand.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* “Organizer Maria Jones, an activist parent of a child at one of the schools on the current closure list, Burroughs Elementary, told Jason Cherkis that she and fellow organizers will encourage all teachers, students, and DCPS employees to skip work and school a week from today and march from DCPS to the Wilson Building.” [DCist]
* “I was at Pentagon City Metro at 8:30pm this evening and saw one of the no-passenger trains go by. Nothing odd there. Except this one had one of the cars full of locked carts, with an armed guard standing in the doorway keeping us from getting in. He was carrying heat too, looked like an MP5. Any idea what the hell is in those carts?” [Silent Bob, via email]

* “This is Candy Tistadt, Dean Tistadt’s wife. This message is for Dave Kori. How dare you call us at home?! If you’ve got a problem with going to school, you do not call somebody’s house and complain about it.” [DCist]
* “You guys are crazy! Wilco always does an unbelievable show at the 9:30 club.” [Prince of Petworth]
* “One parent of an Idea Public Charter School student says the problem has been ongoing for weeks, but no one from Metro or either school was aware of the problem until Fox 5 showed them the video.” [FOX5]
* “The proposal, which goes to the Senate, would require Northern Virginia residents to pay sales taxes on car purchases directly to the state instead of through dealers” [Read Express]
* “Since I can’t make a decent living anymore driving a cab in DC thanks to Mayor Fenty, maybe this will be my resume in progress so you guys can hire me next year as your personal trainer so I can turn you in to a hot sexy chick or a fine strong hunk.” [Diary of a Mad DC Cabbie]

* “A gas fire destroyed most of a strip club just north of Georgetown early this morning, D.C. fire officials said, and an unrelated blaze in Bladensburg badly damaged a cocktail lounge.” [WP]
* “Still, it’s pretty fun to plug and chug common taxi rides to find out how much you can expect to pay once taxi meters are in place. For example, a metered ride from U and 13th Streets NW to the main drag on Mt. Pleasant Street calculates out at $6 in normal traffic — a full $2.80 less than what drivers charge under the zone system.” [DCist]
* “So, that $611,000,000 price cap on the stadium was, as expected, total bullshit.” [why.i.hate.dc]
* “This moron, in addition to shilling for the AEI, works at a university, so he should be the first to know that universities tend to jump at opportunities to shed departments.” [Countersignature]

Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama was supposed to create a permanent coalition between white women who watch daytime teevee and half-Kenyan Harvard Law Review editors. Instead, Oprah’s nutty fans have switched from the television to the Internet, where they’re all leaving terrible messages on Oprah’s own official website message board.

“For the first time in history we actually have a shot at putting a woman in the White House and Oprah backs the black MAN,” some angry lady commented. “She’s choosing her race over her gender.” MORE »