Terrorists struck the Lincoln Memorial today with a semi-literate hand-scrawled note and various half-consumed consumer beverages. MORE »

Katherine Harris has a very, very specific Starbucks order: “Triple Venti, no fat, no foam, extra hot, with pink sugar.” It is her fuel, it is what keeps her going. If she doesn’t get it, she gets angry. Which might be how her cash-strapped campaign ended up spending almost a thousand dollars at Starbucks this fall alone.

The FEC data is here, but a brilliant (and seemingly unemployed) Wonkette Operative crunched the numbers for us:

Total Starbucks runs, July-September: 133
Total cost to the campaign: $948.05

After the jump, the full list of Starbucks trips in that period, with cost and dates of disbursement.

Illustration: Princess Sparkle Pony

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Just a week after our bold crusade to make the TSA idiots let us bring coffee on the plane again, everyone in America is suddenly free to bring coffee on the plane again!

Huzzah!

A tale of incredible patriotic victory, after the jump.

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You don’t have to be a laboratory scientist or explosives expert to know the “Gatorade/iPod Bomb Plot” was total bullshit from Day One; you just need to be able to read and comprehend the simple explanations provided by said laboratory scientists or explosives experts.

We need to bring our coffee back on the airplanes. We need our laptops and DVD players and iPods on those murderous transatlantic flights. We need you help, Washington media elite, so please join us after the jump.

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• There is such a thing as Modern Drunkard Magazine , and the era of the Three Martini Lunch has not passed, it is alive and well along with every other D.C. cliche. [Metroblogging]
• Lieberman, like the Illusionist, able to work the sunrise, put the thing down flip it and reverse it. See the video! [DCDL]
• Katie Couric is a fattie. [The Conservative Futurist]
• Too Much Coffee Lady goes on defensive “airquote” laden rant in RED ink. Gentrification still sucks, still evergreen. [On My Home Planet]
• Saddam Hussein saw the South Park movie, won’t stop impersonating Cartman. [Melissa the Misanthrope]

• “…the resemblances between blogs today and their actual (rather than imagined) 18th century equivalents are very nearly uncanny. Conservative hacks used coffeehouses to propagandize against any who would attack the privileges of the monarchy.” [Crooked Timber]
• “Step 1: put bomb on plane. Step 2: Put menacing note on hidden air sick bag.” [Eschaton]
• The Evangelical Outpost drives a Dodge Neon, hates rap, is so goddamn white. [The Evangelical Outpost]
• Other people following Katherine Harris campaign. [TPM Muckraker]

“Ken Lay was too weird to live, too rare to die…” (AP)

Tony Snow on the passing of “Kenny Boy” Lay:

Q: What has been the President’s reaction to the death of Ken Lay?

SNOW: I really have not talked to him about it. I will give you my own personal reaction, which is that when somebody dies, you leave behind those that grieve, and I think that they deserve our compassion. But — I don’t know, what do you think would be the appropriate thing to say?

Q: I do not know. I don’t know him. The President was his friend, not me.

SNOW: No, the President has described Ken Lay as an acquaintance, and many of the President’s acquaintances have passed on during his time in office. Again, I think that it is sort of an interesting question but not answerable by me.

Thinkprogress has the video.

Yes, an acquaintance.

Bush, clearly shaken by his non-friend’s passing, cheerfully and goofily bought a reporter a cup of coffee at a Dunkin Donuts today. With his very own money! Your surreal press op theater transcript, after the jump.

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* DC’s a sucker for some free shit. Now get back in the office and do a cost-benefit analysis of the amount of work hours wasted on mochaccinos. [Beauty and the Beltway] MORE »

* Reliable Source: Washington welcomes back former German ambassador and his family who were kidnapped in Yemen. [WP]
* Inside the Beltway: Frank Luntz was the most cited pollster in ‘05. . . Domestic coffee interests urge White House to switch to U.S.-made grinds. [WT]