Last Thursday, we walked over to Bourbon to hear, we thought, some dude from Vice talk to some dude from al-Jazeera English about… well, something? It was The Modernist Society’s first monthly party at one of 18th St. last remaining tolerable bars (if you’re upstairs, anyway), and we were there because it was within walking distance.

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* President Bush did, in fact, read the Iraq Study Group’s report, but has no plans to enact its recommendations. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* “Iraq Surrender Group” is more like it. [LAT]
* Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have dinner together, frolic in a field, give steely glares across a dais on the Senate floor. [WP]
* As billion dollar Coast Guard ship modernization program falters, Cubans, Haitians, and Columbians rejoice. [WP]
* Bye-bye, Bill Frist. [WP, NYT]
* Louisiana’s 2nd district runoff election hinges on corruption and pork. William Jefferson might have just enough of each to win.[WSJ]
* Congressional smoking: a bulwark against worse vices. [WP]

Above, a search query (”how to find a chick to fuck if i am married”), from a US House of Representatives computer, that led to racy-ish group blog girlspoke. Congress is on recess, alas, which makes it either a staffer (unlikely: numerous trend pieces in print and on television suggest that they are constantly surrounded by scantily-clad interns) or, someone without a district to go home to. That’s right: Eleanor Holmes Norton. MORE »