OH WHAT SO NOW WE CAN ALL MARRY PINTS OF ICE CREAM?? In celebration of Vermont’s starting to issue same-sex marriage licenses, radical snacktime propagandists Ben & Goebbels will be calling Chubby Hubby, one of their lesser flavors, by the similar name of “Hubby Hubby.” The ice cream will only be gay for September and then it will go back to its wife and kids. [Times Online]

Wednesday, June 24-Sunday, July 19: Jews have a Festival of Lights. Mexicans have a festival of ice cream, or at least Rosa Mexicano does.  The restaurant is hosting a celebration of both sweet and spicy just odd ice creams as part of their “Festival de Helados.” Ice cream options include salted avocado butter (?!?!) and coconut and candied lime zest, among other frightening combinations. These random food celebrations really do keep getting weirder and weirder.  MORE »

Wednesday, June 17: Whenever organizations in DC host a happy hour to support a progressive cause, be it giving out hordes of money to banks, saving the whales in Afghanistan or rallying for higher taxes to fund more tax collecting government agencies, they do so at Local 16. So it’s no surprise that Live Green is throwing itself a party tonight at the local liberal watering hole to celebrate everything it has done over the past year to make DC more green. It’s just what the trees would have wanted! $15 ticket includes admission, light fare, drinks, and music.
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Some organizations choose to support research about infectious diseases. Others fight to end poverty and stop violence.  But then there’s Häagen-Dazs, the little ice cream company that could, fighting the most important and meaningful fight of all. They are fighting to save the honey bees, and you can help save the bees, by eating free ice cream tonight at Häagen-Dazs from 4PM- 8PM. MORE »

World Cocktail Week: In this city you don’t need an excuse to drink … ever, really. But for those who like to have a reason to get inebriated (helps you fall asleep? totally understandable), it’s World Cocktail Week. According to the Museum of the American Cocktail (note to self: must go there), the Week was established to “promote a better understanding, appreciation, and respect for the cocktail and its history.” If you’re eager to learn what exactly it means to “respect a cocktail,” Proof, Bar Pilar, Sonoma, Sova, and Gibson are all offering specialty cocktails as part of the celebration. MORE »

You might be reluctant to vote today. It’s certainly understandable: Maybe it’s raining, or maybe you live in one of the 48 states that isn’t a count-y one, or most likely, your identity has already been plagiarized by an ACORN. But not voting means foregoing that declarative fashion sticker, plus missing out on all of the following free pleasantries. MORE »

Poor old John McCain can’t even win a stupid ice cream contest. Wonkette Operative David sends us this sad report: “Apparently, Baskin-Robbins has been holding a national Flavor Election, which is kind of like an election where only fat, diabetics can vote (Kinda like the real election?). Anywho, the not only did Obama’s Whirl of Change trounce The Straight Talk Crunch in national polls — ice cream is in the tank — but it seems like nobody is fucking eating McCain’s horrible Ice Cream. … Even the french vanilla with egg yolk got more love (yuk).”

As if losing the Pat Robertson endorsement wasn’t enough of a blow to Mitt Romney’s social conservative credo, CBS News captured Mitt Romney engaging in some Wiccan black magic voodoo-sins last night in Greenville, South Carolina: Gluttony! Lust! Not Knowing What a Life-Size Banana Looks Like And Calling It A Pepper Instead! MORE »

It is truly sad that a woman who gave so much — especially Florida, which she gave to Dubya in 2000 — is all but forgotten in the Nation’s Capitol. No thanks from Dick Cheney as he makes the Senators recite the Law of Thelema, no medal from George himself, no nothing. MORE »

Marc Ambinder “hears” that Mark Warner’s going to meet Tom Harkin today — Iowa, ‘08, money, water-testing, etc. etc. etc. That stuff’s all well and good, but where the hell was our invitation to “the Capitol Hill ice cream social?” MORE »

Here’s what our Anonymous Hill Staffer had to say when he sent this one in: “I’d just like to point out that I started these sober, but finished them drunk (as we’ve been drinking in the office for the last two hours).” Looks like someone stopped by Schneider