For the low, low price of another $6 billion (on top of the $400 billion we’ve already spent on Iraq), our troops just might secure several bad neighborhoods in Baghdad! And with another $10 billion or so for reconstruction and night-basketball leagues, Baghdad’s youth will no longer be tempted to join the Crips or knock up their girlfriends. MORE »

• “Yes, they’re trying to rename the neighborhood just north of Massachusetts Avenue NE ‘NoMa.’” We’re just as sorry as you. [Cafe 227]

• Farmer’s market in the Department of Transportation’s Nassif Building courtyard. [Beyond The Mall]
• WP restaurant reviews “written by one of two kinds of people: restaurant owners or sociopaths.” And by sociopath you mean Tom Sietsema. [Ar-Jew-Tino]
• Interesting question (”When (if ever) do you tell people that you have a blog?”) devolves into Jeff Foxworthy bit: “Let’s face it, women don’t do a very good job of differentiating between deceitful lies of omission and the more benign white lies that guys sometimes tell just to avoid having long, drawn out conversations.” You might be a blogger. [Good at Drinking, Bad at Life]
• “MC with the Woman who’s dog fell out of her SUV.” [craigslist]

Pity the poor Daily Candy! Washington DC can’t quite figure out what to do with it, and they can’t quite figure out Washington DC — as evidenced in today’s perky missive, which directs subscribers to a survey (please please please say you buy 10+ beauty products monthy, they whisper). Alas, even in their attempt to learn the very old fashioned way just who the hell their audience is, they show that, perhaps, it may be a lost cause:

C’mon, ladies. We don’t go to your house and mispronounce “Houston Street,” do we? MORE »