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They even called her “our commander in sheath”! Michelle Obama officially joined Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List, while Cindy McCain sat at home and wept into her Chico’s catalog. [NYDN/Vanity Fair]

OK, Just realized that we only have the rest of the afternoon and Monday morning to blog in 2007! Time for some lists, I guess. First off, the poll for Wonkette’s Person and Vice Person of the Year will be open until 11 a.m. Monday morning, so vote! Now, however, as a special Friday afternoon treat, we’ll present you with the Top Five Most Prolific Commenters of 2007. All Year End Lists Must Be Capitalized, Because They Are Just That Important. Check It Out After the Best Jump of 2007. MORE »

Editors at the Associated Press have picked the year’s top 10 stories, and we expected the presidential campaign to be like, you know, top five or something, right? Well, it lands in at #8 — coincidentally one spot ahead of the immigration debate. Now it’s official: Immigration is almost the same thing as this election. Anyway, some other shit happened this year — who knew! — so full list after the jump. MORE »

Over at “The List,” the WaPo’s awkward discussion forum, they’ve published their “Top 10 Sexual Politician Scandals.” Yes, yes, stop the clamoring, I’ll just tell you: It’s #7. You are talking about the 1831 Petticoat Affair, right? Oh. Anyway, full list after the jump. MORE »

Ever wonder what goes into Washingtonian’s Power 150: People Who Make Things Happen? Is it total bullshit, or just partly? We asked a former Washingtonian editor for an inside peek. And TIME 100 it is not. After the jump, an insider tells all. MORE »

* The Top 10 Least Corrupt Junior Members of the 110th Congress
* Revealed: The Wonkette-LNS Cross-Promotional Deal!
* The Best Bars in DC For Ensuring That You Will Not Run Into a Single Person Even Vaguely Connected With Politics or Media (crossposted to Gridskipper)
* You Know, That Dana Milbank is Pretty Funny!

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Not that we are particularly interesting in talking about GQ more, but, you know, they sent us their ranked list of the 50 most powerful people in Washington (part of their SPECIAL POLITICS ISSUE), and we just want to get posting about it over with before this actually hits newsstands and 500 people email to ask WHY WE HAVEN’T COVERED IT. It’s a surprisingly decent little list! They asked a bunch of people who knew, mostly, what they were talking about, the lame gimmick entries (Reagan! Even though he’s dead he’s more powerful than Joe Lieberman!) aren’t too egregious, and overall nothing is too embarrassingly wrong. Oh, except for their choice of the single most powerful person in Washington. MORE »

• The exact instant that all the crooked congressmen you love to hate “jumped the shark.” [The Left Coaster]

• Another “top 10″ list, as long-irrelevant music magazine does cover story on soon to be irrelevant congressmen. [Think Progress]
• Larry Craig’s voting record reveals the old “it’s not gay if your balls don’t touch” urban legend is alive and well. [Pandagon]
• McCain on a Democratic Senate majority: “I think I’d just commit suicide.” [Political Wire]
• Americans fire more bullets in Iraq everyday than there are people in St. Paul, MN. [Hit & Run]
• Israel decides bullets are for suckers, is now murdering Palestinians with Klingon disruptors. [Cryptogon]
• Kim Jong-Il has the power of the atom in his hand and the work of the Member’s Only designers on his back. [The Cool Honey]
• Here is why John McCain won’t have to kill himself: the opposition party is the Democrats. [NYO]

Soon there’ll be nothing left at Cape Canaveral but three mechanical engineers, the decaying corpse of Alan Shepard, and some jerry-rigged TI-82 graphing calculators: MORE »

How Many White House Staffers Do You Out-Earn? The answer may surprise you! MORE »

Last week, we (acting against the recommendations of our doctors) mocked Dana Milbank’s new regular feature, CW “The Zeitgeist Checklist” (confidential to WPNI: We are also available to write lists of headline w/ arrows in exchange for lots and lots of money). This week, we are embarrassed to admit that we’re going to do it again.

We note first that Slate has not yet picked up Dana’s “This Week In Last Week” column. That’s no way to maximize synergy, Weisberg. On that note, here’s to the classes that chatter, and what they’ll be chattering about — we highlight a couple items worthy of futher investigation, after the jump.

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We know it’s not ’till Thursday, but we wanted to beat the rush.

The AP is amazed to learn that our President is greeting his 60th birthday not with deep, suicidal despair, but rather with — wait for it — relative good humor! But that good humor masks — wait for it — “unmistakably wistful notes.” Join us for a birthday think-piece fun-fest, after the jump.

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What we learned from Time Magazine’s list of the best and worst senators: MORE »

Listen carefully, there will be a quiz. MORE »