• Zagat restaurant guide gets punk’d as giggle inducing puns evade detection. [Brunch Bird]

• Fistful of change goes missing, clues point to DC-DMV employees know as “Half Street Mafia.” [Countersignature]
• Hundreds of punk rock fans forced to call mom for an early pick-up last night after 9:30 club sorta caught fire. [DCeiver]
• WaPo’s “best bets” rankings not as useful as a list of the worst bars in DC, compiled by ” drunkards and vagrants.” [Cafe 227]

* The Marine Corps Marathon registration started today, but that information is totally useless to anyone reading this. [Metroblogging DC] MORE »

Today, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones ruled against the Dover Area School Board’s decision to insert intelligent design into their schools’ science curriculum. A great ruling for anyone who prefers their science to be based less in folklore and more in, uhm, what’s the word for it…oh, yeah: science. MORE »

• Producer “bilks” investors in a “reality” television show about the DHS. That’s Karen Hughes’ job. [DHS]
• Killer dolphin alarmist also an expert on crop circles, the sinking of the Gaul. [Gelf]
• “Michael Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been rehired by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it’s response following Hurricane Katrina.” No joke, too busy retching. [CBS]
• “When College Republicans invoke the Establishment, they mean a clique of former College Republicans.” Of course. [TNR]
• I am responsible for 13-year-olds having sex. (FWIW, I would never think of sex as something to “just get over with.” I barely remember it to begin with.) [Reasoned Audacity]