It’s rare that we pay attention to, let alone compliment, the actions of the DC city council. But they have done us all a service this blessed season, and it should be recognized: This weekend, you can buy liquor on Sunday and drink at bars until 4 a.m.. So for one weekend, it’ll be almost like living in New York! As always, though, there’s a catch: MORE »

* WP Radio is hiring and Renee Zellweger, George Stephanopoulos and Alexandra Wentworth are in town. [Fishbowl DC]
* It’s always the fatherless, isn’t it? Motherfuckers. [Craigslist]
* Make plans now for the National Press Club’s 29th Annual Book Fair and Author Night tomorrow, and look ahead to ultima-douche Frank Rich this Sunday. [DCist]
* DC Council members plan to reward themselves with a 51% salary increase, because of the great job they’ve done reducing crime and all. [The DC Universe]
* In an online chat today WTOP political commentator Mark Plotkin tried humor: “I’m thinking of hiring an extensive security detail. It’s getting ridiculous. I’m glad I don’t wear cufflinks, they would rip them off as souvenirs.” He was asked, “When did you turn into Bill O’Reilly?” [WP]

• DC Cops still believe arresting murderers who purchase Swedish made penis enlargers with stolen credit cards ain’t in their job description. [Velvet In Dupont]

• Not that it matters — in DC you can stack papers with out ever looking at the stack of paper on your desk. [Cut DC Taxes]
• There’s even money to be made selling tourists a little piece of the pretending-to-work culture. [Are Seven]
• Sorry hippie, these blurbs on the mayoral candidates won’t mean shit to you unless you’re a registered Democrat. [Til Human Voices Wake Us, And We Drown]
• Is it hot in here? Or is Obama talking about STD’s again? [ An Orange County Girl]
• In junior high, calling it a “needle” was an insult. [Grace's Poppies]

• Crime emergency continues as corn-rolled City-council-candidate-car-killer kicks out window, escapes police, vows Cropp is next. [Stop, Blog, And Roll]

• DC braces for the coming throngs of “an unholy army of undead mice.” [Pie Pants]
• Discovery Channel’s new marketing strategy involves catch phrase “I want a mother fucking shark up on this mother fucking building!” [I Am A Lefty; Silver Spring, Singular]
• “Screen On The Green” begins tonight as soon as the sun stops blazing, meaning you can start. [DCist]
• Wired editor and Web 2.0 ethos-definer Chris Anderson was, like everyone else, in a DC postpunk band. [Valleywag]

Politics is 99% image, the other half is kissing babies. Jim Ramstad knows that and his top-down-screaming-out, “money ain’t a thing” lifestyle is letting you know he’s skipping the 8th step — no apologies. Michael Hayden isn’t apologizing either, he likes the European futbol and doesn’t give a damn if it’s the 4th of July. Mike Piazza’s not running for anything but he knows the voters love the Magnum P.I. style, and Bill Bennett’s not running either, but he probably should start, for his health.

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• World Cup affiliations as a touchstone for the pitfalls of inter-party dating, and some asshole that actually carries a ” George W. Bush Freedom Credit Card.” [LuLu Dates DC]

• At IRS headquarters any work employees do will not make them free. [City Mouse]
• DC voting-rights activists trudge on, undeterred by the knowledge that plans based on shaming Congress into action are 0-for-the history of time. [Wanderings In DC]
• Washington Times reporter bothers to show up for a DC Council meeting and gets tossed out for taking the last cranberry muffin. [DCist]

It’s a good week to be a teenage girl in DC. Sex In The City’s Chris Noth was hanging out downtown, and Jordan Catalano Jared Leto was, like, totally in Dupont, or something.

Stevie Wonder was also seen, but he didn’t see you, and neither did his security guard. These and more of the hoi-polloi that we lovingly call “famous for DC,” after the jump.

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• It doesn’t take much to run for city council in DC, but you do have to show up. [DCDL]

• Home is where the heart is - unless the heart is in a shit hole that resembles Bushwick during the crack wars. [And I Am Not Lying, For Real]
• Luckily the champagne room in White House sub-basement number 69 has just been completed. [Hey Pretty]
• Linda Cropp decides the hiring of homeless people isn’t just for booze-crazed high school kids. [WTOP]