For dinner last night on our Wonkette Travel Journalism Tour through Virginia, we went to the best Italian restaurant in the South! Unfortunately Arlen Specter had shown up earlier to vomit all over the floor, earlier. But that made for good eatin’! What else is here, in Virginia? Just some Muslins. MORE »

Many of you will be descending en masse to DC this weekend, and after about 24 hours, you will probably become a terrible burden for the host whom you’re definitely imposing upon. But there are exciting things here besides Obama; things that will keep you interested and informed and out of the house. So, here is Wonkette’s Official Top 10 DC Attractions To See While in DC Anyway. MORE »

Guess who’s paying for this daring piece of Gay Travel advertising? The taxpayers of South Carolina! Yukyukyuk… MORE »

Now, the nation’s capital wants a piece of that action — so much so that Washington is on the market for a snappy slogan of its own, and it’s willing to spend $150,000 to find one.

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* Heard on the Hill: Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Stephanie Herseth (D-S.D.) are sporting new hairstyles. . . Tourist enters the Cannon House Office Building unknowingly bleeding from his leg. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Maury Povich and Connie Chung speak at Nathans, but allegations of sexual harassment against him “were the big unspoken subtext of the day”. . . Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Lisa Ling, and Christiane Amanpour, on behalf of Vital Voices, will give awards to Kuwaiti suffragists. [WP]
* Under the Dome: System of a Down band-members lobby lawmakers “to recognize the Armenian genocide that killed 1.5 million people 91 years ago.” [The Hill]
* Fox 411: Neil Young’s new song about impeaching Bush “contains the most pungent attacks on a US president in pop-rock since The Ramones recorded ‘Bonzo Goes to Bitburg’ in the late 1980s.” [Fox News]

Little Rock and environs are enjoying the fruits of what tourists are calling the “Billgrimage”: Visits to Little Rock’s recently opened Bill Clinton Presidential spilling over to the Bubba birthplace 115 miles away in (a place called) Hope. Clinton Birthplace director Crystal Altenbaumer reports that the site turned its first profit last year after being $51,000 in the red the year before. Curiously, though, it seems few of the visitors stay long: MORE »