Bill Kristol’s lifestyle/war pamphlet The Weekly Standard has found a new home! It is much like the old one, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which presumably got tired of losing insane amounts of money each year. (Also, Murdoch didn’t want to get shot by Maryland Nazis.) MORE »

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Michael Grass of the Washington Post’s EXPRESS celebrates the launching of “Yeas and Nays” in the Washington Examiner.

Last night, we went to the WASPiest place we’ve ever been in our entire lives (the University Club) to celebrate the launch of the Washington Examiner’s gossip column, “Yeas and Nays.” It launched a month ago, yes, but we’re still quite excited.

The club was bumpin’, the wine was free, and the bloggers were in a corner talking only to each other. Our kinda shindig. After the jump, a few photos from a certain Girl Reporter who was actually supposed to be shooting for the Examiner.

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Above, someone forgets to edit the shit out of the Washington Examiner. MORE »

Sadly, neither of these two men are nominated.

FishbowlDC, scraping a barrel even we are scared to open, is currently holding a competition to find the “hottest” journalists in Washington D.C. (it’s not often we use the scare quotes around a word other than “journalist” when talking about this crowd, but desperate times and all that). You are asked to select which candidate is the least unappealing, in two categories by gender. We don’t have a dog in this fight (though Original Wonkette and Liz Gorman, Intrepid Girl Reporter are both nominated — and we’re sure they’re both thrilled to be the targets of your gin-soaked, middle-aged lust), but we do feel that we’d be lax in our duty if we didn’t start documenting the race itself — starting with a brilliant self-promotional email, sent out not minutes after polls opened. It’s after the jump.

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We asked you people how you thought Lucky Strike’s local media bowling challenge would play out and have received…well…let’s call it “many” predictions:

•The reporters from the Post will cheat, then write a thousand word rumination about falling standards of integrity in the bowling world.
•George Will, in the end, is too blue-blooded to deign to be caught bowling, even at Lucky Strike.
•The staff of the Washingtonian just won’t be able to get over how fun! and original! and cheap! this sport is! They will decide to go bowling several times a year, and always in the exact same way.
•Dana Milbank bowls a 75, because he is a pussy.
•The Examiner’s will be escorted out of the bowling alley when no one agrees to vouch for whether or not they are a media outlet. [I'd be surprised, actually, if they could deal with a game that requires them to use a black ball to knock over white pins. --Ed.]
•The Washington Times staff will get drunk, then start suspiciously eyeing any hispanics working at the alley.
•and of course, Cokie Roberts will bring her own ball, natch.

Wonkette’s predictions, after the jump:

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Fishbowl DC draws our attention to Karen Feld’s admission that she was incorrect in “romantically linking” CNN producer Kathy Benz to porn producer Mark Kulkis. Most interesting is her excuse for getting it wrong:

We now believe we were the target of an Internet “spoofer” who used an email address that appeared to come from another news organization.

Though we suspect that Feld was hoodwinked by a fake email address (crafty!), the term “spoofer” usually applies ISP attacks, which suggests that Feld was deluged with gossip about Benz and Kulkis (hey, we remember July, too!). Benz is now suing the Examiner.

The Buzz - Now, the other nomination [DCX, fourth item via FDC]

UPDATE after the jump.

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