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Michael Grass of the Washington Post’s EXPRESS celebrates the launching of “Yeas and Nays” in the Washington Examiner.

Last night, we went to the WASPiest place we’ve ever been in our entire lives (the University Club) to celebrate the launch of the Washington Examiner’s gossip column, “Yeas and Nays.” It launched a month ago, yes, but we’re still quite excited.

The club was bumpin’, the wine was free, and the bloggers were in a corner talking only to each other. Our kinda shindig. After the jump, a few photos from a certain Girl Reporter who was actually supposed to be shooting for the Examiner.

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• Washington Monthly’s 2nd annual college rankings are out. MIT is number one. [Political Animal]
• A $65,000 conference table planned for new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives HQ. [TPMMuckraker]
• People read WP’s Express. [Romenesko]

Ok, so we had Richard Pombo listed as a Democrat for about 45 minutes today. That’s nothing. Here’s an item (courtesy FishbowlDC) from page 21 of today’s Washington Express: MORE »

* Actual scholarship in favor of congressional representation for DC. It’s all very nice, but we’d rather just not pay taxes. [Social Science Research Network] MORE »

* Ohh, this new blog is very shiny and has so many things to click! [Freeride] MORE »

Welcome, Express, to the oversaturated Washington general-interest metro blog scene! We’d normally give any print publication’s new blog venture a reflexive “half-assed and doomed to failure” review, but this one, called Free Ride, comes with a pretty good pedigree in the form of Michael Grass, former DCist editor and guy-who-already-knows-how-to-blog. DCist is understandably quiet about it, and while we don’t really care that much about stuff like prospective Columbia Pike trolleys (we like mass transit, we just don’t want to read about it), Grass has already given more coverage to the short-lived live action Super Mario Brothers syndicated kids show (starring Captain Lou Albano) than any of his competitors, so we think it’s gonna go far. MORE »