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Here’s Washington Post “local color” writer Dana Milbank drinking somewhere and talking about Wonkette, for some reason, and how he doesn’t read it. And then he gets spooked, because what if Wonkette is actually there, videotaping him, in the form of Our Liz Glover? [Liz Glover]

A week ago today, we bitterly presented the World’s Worst Wonk’d. The “D.C. celebrity sightings” consisted of George Will buying another fucking book at Borders, and a fireman who had once been on local teevee. We demanded that you people get it together, and you got it together! Huzzah for Wonkette Operatives! This week, Fred Thompson, Robert Mueller, Tom Ridge, Juan Williams, Marion Barry, Ben Bernanke, Ken Mehlman, Robert Novak, Dana Milbank, Mark Warner, and David Frum were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. The most voyeuristic fun ever in Wonkette’s Five Long Years of History, after the jump. MORE »

Ryan Grim at Politico gives a wet, slobbery rim job to Dana Milbank of the WaPo this morning in his article about where people hang out in Des Moines - Dana is the sole reporter quoted in the article, which we’re guessing was written at the 801 and not Centro (which is pictured). But as much as boys like their steaks and cigars, some of us prefer a nice bottle of red and a little pasta to ward off the freezing cold. The only thing that actually sucks about Centro, though, is the fact that they have to put the pronunciation on the sign because the Iowans don’t know how to pronounce it. You don’t see Michel Richard putting the pronunciation on the sign for Central, because he figures if you don’t know how to pronounce it, you don’t deserve to eat there. [Politico]

The Washington Post did two interesting things today: Columnist Ruth Marcus ripped Paul Krugman a new one, and a turkey was interviewed. We will focus on the latter. MORE »

Washington is buzzing with another kind of immigration nut as hundreds of UFO nerds congregate at the National Press Club to demand, uselessly, that the Government ‘fess up about the space monsters, while more than 70 actual astronomers gathered here to support the Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory in Puerto Rico, which sent the Nixon-era message to the Extraterrestrials inviting them to invade our world and steal all the oil. Unless Congress keeps up funding for Arecibo, rogue FBI agents and space aliens could easily penetrate its defenses. Oh, and also, something from Outer Space just crashed in Peru and left a gaping hole in the ground and all the people are sick and vomiting from the Death Rays. MORE »

Dana Milbank is braver than we knew — he apparently spent the night with all those dangerous old sex offenders in the Senate. The cots, pizza and toothbrushes were all unused props for a stupid (and failed) photo op. But the very real images of fat old senators being roused from their naps by mean Harry Reid were the exact opposite of “photo ops.” They were profiles in revulsion. MORE »

Hey girls, Hillary Clinton threw some kind of “block party” called “Club 44″ in DC last night. Why didn’t you show up? It was just a casual thing for you girls, you know, who are young and casual — you know, between the ages of 18 and 24, with the disposable income and maybe the voter registration card? MORE »

Instead of running for president and giving journalists a chance to use all those great “Al Bore” jokes again, Gore has just written another book — this time about how everybody’s an idiot. The press is not pleased, as evidenced by the unflattering reviews of the book: MORE »