• Reliable Source: In the past year, Bush received $17,316 in personal gifts and Cheney netted $39,722 worth. . . Woody Harrelson and Kristin Scott Thomas are filming in Foggy Bottom. . . Dresses worn by “political ladies” hit eBay for Gulf Coast charity. . . Nancy Pelosi seen lunching with Zbigniew Brzezinski. [WP]
• Heard on the Hill: Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) calls CNN’s Joe Johns a “smartass”. . . Gore’s film premieres tonight at the National Geographic Society’s Grosvenor Auditorium. [Roll Call]
• Page Six: Advisors to Katherine Harris may be plotting a tell-all book and documentary. [NYP]
• Cindy Adams: Condoleezza Rice to the NFL?. . . St. Martin’s is throwing a party at the Cosmos Club for Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, and Terry McAuliffe [NYP]

Earlier this week, Kids Ahead, a publisher of conservative children’s books, issued a press release touting a clever publicity stunt: MORE »

By day, Jeff Zeleny is the wunderkind of the Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau. By night, Zeleny is… running a flourishing business selling stuff on eBay? MORE »

Via DCist we see that the black-and-white market in panda viewing tickets appears to be flourishing on Craigslist. Compared to yesterday’s handjob offer, the promise of ten or twenty bucks seems awfully puny, but at least one person has offered to donate $100 to the National Zoo for the pleasure of accompanying a rightful ticketholder to Butterstick’s lair. MORE »

It’s not what we’d want to be remembered by, but still: eBay is auctioning off what appears to be a copy of the historic 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision signed by the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice. One note of caution, though–the accompanying text repeatedly attributes the provenence of this item to one “William Reinquist” who for all we know was the chief justice of Freedonia: MORE »

• Reports look hot wet. [AJC]
• Hitchens will trade right to smoke if NYer would just stop mutilating penises. [Slate]
• Will Bush need to invade more countries, less Laura? [Independent]
• Jesus votes in blue states after all. [Gawker]
• Hot, sexy Dingell wants your company now. [eBay]
• There is no issue that Chuck Schumer does not have a stand on: ” “My daughter goes to college in Boston, and many of her friends ride these buses, and they said they were worried about them.” [NYP]

Loudon County contractor John A. Andrews II laid to rest a controversy over the authenticity of an American flag he purchased on eBay said to have been flown atop a construction crane at the Pentagon in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Andrews had two Boy Scouts and a Loudon County Boy Scouts commissioner cut the stars out of the flag and burn it in two metal drums filled with burning oak logs–a method, the AP reports, that “followed one of several methods outlined in Scout protocol.” MORE »