• Mark Shields goes on teevee, describes his favorite sweaty homoerotic fantasy in vivid detail. [Think Progress]
• Matt Yglesias is very relieved that CAP is forbidden by federal law to replace him with a genetically superior blogger. [Matt Yglesias]
• Who will protect America’s morbidly obese children from mutant, oven-sized cupcakes? [Weekly Standard]
• A CNN intern galloped through the busy markets of Beijing in search of ObaMaoist souvenirs, only to discover that such paraphernalia has been outlawed for all eternity! And according to Mr. Gateway Pundit this is very bad/good/communist/socialist/gay? Sometimes it’s just hard to tell. [Gateway Pundit]
• CEI will deposit $500 in Al Gore’s PayPal account if he finger-bangs Lord Monckton. $510.50 if CEI can watch. [The Corner]

* Free Starbucks tomorrow. [DCFUD]
* At $50,000 a year, GW is the nation’s most expensive college. Nine local kids will now attend for free. [Read Express]
* RE: DC housing market: “For those of us with decent credit, watching all the posers getting foreclosed is like watching cheap porn in the middle of the night.” [TC The Terrible]
* Review of the closing of the DC Independent Film Festival and not meeting Kiefer Sutherland, “there was the adult man chanting ‘kiefer! kiefer!’ during the film festival award proceedings, impatient to skip right past the awards and movie and see kiefer.” [Life Off Balance]
* Baked and Wired has best cupcakes in town, according to WP and CakeLove serves some of their cupcakes at room temp now. [Eat Foo]

* LNS Party Crash — Valentine’s Day Party at Smith Point. Let Rusty be your guide. [why.i.hate.dc]
* Even if you’re not single this Valentine’s Day, deep down you know that no one really loves you. Sooth your soul with a free cupcake from Cal Tort tomorrow. [prof & ponder]
* Great photo of 11th & F after the 1968 riots. [City Desk]
* “Can you imagine what would happen if people in Paris, London, Rome, or Vienna couldn’t vote?” [alternative hippopotamus]
* Valentine’s kid shot at 7th and G St NW. [Gallery Place Living]

* Today wasn’t just a slow news day; it was also a depressing one. [DCist] MORE »