Earlier this afternoon, a Capitol Hill source advised us: MORE »

Since we’re on the subject of fated-for-disaster entertainment-industry interpretations of our fair town, a reader sent us this blurb for an upcoming sitcom sure to be as popular and long-running as Capital Critters: MORE »

It’s been a bad year for fictional Presidents. Not that the real one hasn’t had his share of setbacks, but when his numbers plummet they don’t replace him with an improv comedian. The same cannot be said of Geena Davis, whose Commander in Chief is being put on hiatus. ABC claims the show will be back with new episodes, possibly with the title “President Girl!” Also, Davis will now solve murders weekly in her advanced crime lab with her gruff, no-nonsense Vice President and sassy black Attorney General. MORE »

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• Hipster pastor in People’s Republic of Arlington won’t wed breeders anymore in protest against gay marriage ban: Everyone gets “commitment ceremony.” Republicans sputter: “It’s a terrible message to send to our youth.” [WP]
• Butterstick debut: B-minus 22 days. [AP]
• Free booze at midnight! Don’t wear white to a Beaujolais party and other hints. [DCist]
• “I Want to Fuck a Powerful Congressional Staffer” Oxymoron much? [Craigslist]
• Alexandria’s Parent’s Television Council responsible for 23,542 out of 23,547 (all but five) FCC indecency complaints in one one-month period. [B&C]

An Instapundit reader looks at the declining audience for the MSM and comes up with a fascinating hypothesis: The numbers are down because there’s too much girlstuff on the tv.

I might be wrong, but in my view, the media gives so much to the women’s point of view that they demonstrate disrespect, or at the very least, dismissiveness, for men and masculinity and fatherhood. I’m convinced that this is the reason men are no longer interested in watching anything but sports.

Has this person not seen “Stacked”? Wonders Insty’s correspondent: “It seems like there MIGHT be some significant business opportunity there.” Yes. I believe it’s called “The Playboy Channel.” MORE »

Great news! C-SPAN is broadcasting tomorrow’s Senate Judiciary Committee vote on John Roberts TOTALLY LIVE at 9:30am ET tomorrow on C-SPAN3. WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN!?!? Oh, and if you miss it (I’m kinda busy, too.), well they’re rebroadcasting it on C-SPAN2 at 9pm. Don’t tell us how it ends!

A design-centric look at the Daily Show informs us that avant firm Pentagram oversaw both the Daily Show book (”For typefaces, she went with Akidenz Grotesque and URW Clarendon, a mixture of modern and classical.”) and the new set (”His goal, he says, was to provide the minimal DNA of a news program, ‘without all the cloying visual cues.’”) And, yes, they’re the ones who got rid of the couch; but, hey — they replaced them with Eames chairs! MORE »