* Why a hammer might be needed for a wine refrigerator remains one of the great mysteries of humankind. [DC Foodies]
* Too true: “Every once in a while, I have to go into Georgetown on a weekend to remind myself why I don’t do it often.” [DC Mr. Anthrope]
* Glad to know the educational system in this country works — thanks, No Child Left Behind! [Eavesdrop DC]
* Pizza in D.C.? Who knew that existed? [Gridskipper]
* “In fact, climate change coverage has become so intense and ubiquitous in popular culture that it is radiating back into the news division of at least one major broadcast network.” [Capital Weather]

There’s a lot we just have to accept on hearsay in this story. For example: is this “Relinghuysen” guy actually a Congressman? Is that even a real name? We don’t know, and there’s simply no way of finding out. MORE »

A rogue Circulator bus crashed into a Georgetown office building earlier today, causing one injury and the hilarious image you see to the right. MORE »

* Baristas from Murky Coffee and Tryst took 1st and 4th in some sort of Mid-Atlantic/Northeast contest. [DCist]
* You know that valet bike parking we mentioned in To Do? Well, WABA needs volunteers. [WABA]
* “There are two visions for our public schools emerging now in the District — two camps: One is saying, ‘Mayor, Order Those Schools To Be Good!’ The other is saying, ‘Mayor, It Takes a Village, Not a King.’ Though you wouldn’t know it by reading the Washington Post, more and more people are joining the second camp and are speaking out against the mayor’s proposal to take the public schools from the public.” [Sam Smith's City Desk]
* “So don’t waste this incredible opportunity, D.C. If Georgetown wins tomorrow, and especially Monday, don’t hold back. Flood the streets. Overturn some cars. Light a few fires. Those really nice stores along M Street, with their large windows? Perfect for looting.” [The DC Universe]
* Second-date ideas, including Tallula which has a “prix fixe wine and dinner tasting menu. It’s five courses of perfect pairings and for only about $75 per person, including tip …. The wine manager comes to the table to introduce the wine before each course and you get a little sheet of paper to jot down notes about the wines. Oh, and they tailor it for beginners, intermediate, and advanced.” [The DC Concierge]

Tom Cruise-enabling Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder announced he was buying the burger chain Johnny Rockets last month, but massive rats at the Georgetown location have apparently revolted against the purchase. MORE »

* Please send photos and updates when tens of thousands of earnest yuppies descend on the Mall for Saturday’s Tibetan Danny Glover Freedom Concert. We’ll be at Busch Gardens along with every other journalist in Washington.
* The Politico was fathered this week by the Allbrittons. The media failures are also the proud owners of the $28 million Georgetown crime scene we’ve been investigating. Coincidence?
* BARACK HUSSEIN OSAMA TOSSES BIN LADEN AT AMERICA.
* Hillary Cunton consummated her trail of tears. Soon after, she got busted for paying right-wing blogs not to run her campaign ads.
* “So I say to John Kerry, I love you John Kerry. And I’m so sorry that things didn’t work out for our country, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that I will always care about you greatly and remember the times we’ve spent together.”
* In an attempt to tidy up before killing himself, David Bradley makes Andrew Sullivan Senior Editor of The Atlantic: “I’ve spent my adult years believing that life is a sine curve of inevitable highs following inevitable lows. What is new to me, in this second career, is that the highs are much higher in journalism and the lows much lower. I had not understood, before, how wide could be the band of emotions.”
* Michele Bachmann isn’t afraid to lose control, uses farm hands to offer the President a little encouragement. The DumpBachman blog says “Good-bye Katherine Harris, Hello Michelle Bachmann.” But we’ll never turn our backs on Kitty. She removed her invisibility cloak to to hand out business cards to anyone who didn’t wince at her at the SOTU.
* Like Alberto Gonzales, we weren’t allowed to attend the big event. So we liveblogged the shit out of the blabby blab. And the blabby blab blab response. Believe you us, the whole affair was like looking in a drawer full of diamonds and we’re still hungover.

Beloved capitool bar Smith Point is on fire! DCFD is on the scene! Late Night Shots people are blaming, obviously, this website! Here are some comments: MORE »

Remember the 31st and Q mansion we mentioned last week? The most expensive home ever bought in Washington? The one where an aspiring British politician had his throat slit in the driveway last July? Reliable Source revealed the buyers yesterday: Robert and Elena Allbritton!

Come learn who they are with us, after the jump.

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Developer Herb Miller’s 1.8-acre compound at 31st and Q streets last made the news in July, when a young British Jew was savagely murdered in the driveway by a gang that also tried to rape his companion, Miller’s babysitter who lived in the mansion’s guest apartment. MORE »

Let no-one say Dean & DeLuca is run by a bunch of communist America haters. Wonkette operative “Alex” wrote to corporate to complain about the bizarre upside-down half-mast U.S. flag the Georgetown market was sporting on the Day After Veterans Day. MORE »

Above: the Georgetown Dean and Deluca, spotted yesterday by a Wonkette Operative, flies the flag at half-mast for the Veterans and upside down for the panicked Gtown Republican Hill Staffers desperately sending their resumes to lobbying organizations, think tanks, and consulting firms.