Wonkette

Every now and then, we come across legitimate excuses to get trashed on a Monday - proof of God’s everlasting love for the working man (and woman, I guess). If you’re still in the District and have yet plan out your New Year’s festivities, you’ve got quite a few options for how to spend your final evening of 2007 (some more expensive than others). It’s been one hell of a year, and we’re going to try to make it one hell of a night. MORE »

Zogby/Times Square released this afternoon the results of their 3rd New Year’s Eve National Poll in which, unsurprisingly, Barack Obama blew away the competition for with whom Americans would most like to spend New Year’s Eve. The poll shows 16 percent of Americans would prefer to spend it with Obama, while 10 percent would like to spend it with Huckabee, and Thompson and Edwards tied for third place with 9 percent each. Obviously, there are way too many people who don’t kiss on New Year’s Eve because, otherwise, Obama would be leading by more than 6 percent and Edwards would not in any way be tied with Fred Thompson. The only good thing about spending New Year’s with Fred is that he’d probably doze off at 10:00 and leave the rest of the champagne for me to drink by myself to help forget that I was spending New Year’s Eve with Fred fucking Thompson. [Zogby]

* Names and Faces: Wayne Gretsky celebrated New Years in DC, at Morton’s Steakhouse. $850 tip. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Ford press sec Ron Nessen says pardoning Nixon was an act of great courage… Lonesome John Edwards picked the wrong week/day/year to announce his candidacy for President… Cap Police sent out an alert last Friday reading, “At 6:30 p.m. this evening in the Upper Senate Park, cannons will be test fired. This will create a loud noise.” [Examiner]
* Page Six: Tony Blair will apparently move to Miami after he steps down, according to always-accurate British tabloids… Katie Couric did not make Condoleezza Rice cry. [NYP]

* You’re in the office, we’re in the airport and she’s sitting by the pool in Bangkok. [Life and Musings]
* Florida rules: “DC sounds like a really nice place, except for all the blacks.” [Metroblogging DC]
* Round up of New Year’s parties on H Street. [Frozen Tropics]
* Modernist sculpture, paintings of Native Americans, cookout at the Warehouse. The town isn’t as dead as we thought. [DCist