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Don’t you just love it when some quippy Business Section jackass at the WaPo decides to tackle gentrification on a small business-level, assumes a positive urban-renewal tone but ultimately just says “IT’S A LOT BETTER IN THIS AREA SINCE THE BLACK PEOPLE LEFT”? Well, we had one of those today, about a liquor store. The subhead: “As Rough-Hewn Area Goes Upscale, Merchant Shifts From Beer to Champagne.” What a merrily racist Christmas Eve ’tis! MORE »

After getting the boot for trying to interview Algeria’s revolutionary army in the 1950s, the French have finally forgiven Ben Bradlee, the legendary editor of the Washington Post. Bradlee, 86, received the Legion of Honor from France last week. [NYP] MORE »

Huzzah! Thank you A1 of this morning’s Washington Post; we had no idea that there was a lesbian hunchback detective raping suspects.

The online headline now reads, “Detective’s Hunch Led Her to Suspect in Rape.” So she’s still a hunchback detective, but isn’t raping suspects anymore.

Detective’s Hunch Led Her to [something about rape] [WP]

Call us old fashioned, but when we stop by the Washington Post’s website it is usually to read news from Washington. Instead, the former newspaper’s website is topped off with an “interactive video feature” of random people spouting gibberish. MORE »

The heartbreaking message of this Washingtonian item is that journalists who marry each other are doomed to sell their ramshackle houses for only $1.75 million, but reporters who “marry up” can buy $2.95-million houses. MORE »

* Vice President Cheney will receive a warning citation for hunting without the proper stamp on his permit. [The Smoking Gun] MORE »