DC’s socialist bicycle share klub thing is expanding! From 10 racks of bicycles that seem both appealing and logistically problematic to 50 racks of bicycles that seem both appealing and logistically problematic. [WTOP] MORE »

It’s very arguably GOP-themed reading week here in DC. In what way? Well, let’s see, someone tries to make the case for a political interpretation of the Legend of Reagan, and then something about hip hop which, by law, Michael Steele is “down with.” Anyway, there’s also Adolf Eichmann, William Marbury, and Nate Silver, kind of. MORE »

The DC police are putting together a book with the 60 most notorious youth offenders so that people in-the-know will be kept abreast of these kids in the rosy-fingered dawn of their careers or something. It too has tenuous privacy implications, just like actual Facebook. [Washington Post] MORE »

Lots o’ books and their authors this week, in your DC and its environs. Hrm, a little bit of everything too: John Cheever, a few standbys about (the) war, and feminism, starring the Civil War and a phantasmagorical imagining of the specter haunting publishing, as embodied by a Meghan McCain of the mind. MORE »

A deer, which was being chased by a pack of dogs, which was being chased by Sarah Palin and a fleet of helicopters, which was being chased by that same deer, smashed into the window of a Greek restaurant in Silver Spring and then went to hide out in the bakery of a Giant. [WTOP] MORE »

It’s quite snow-stormy out today, huh? But if you do decide to venture out of the house, one of two things might happen: One: that asshole Barry Obama will stop calling you a coward (to your face), and two: you could stop by one of DC’s like three (like 3) places to go hear an author talk about his or her new book. Plus, if known elitists Rashid Khaldi, Adam Gopnik, and David Plotz can all brave the snow, so can you. MORE »

DC has adopted its first gay landmark! It is the second “official” gay landmark in America, right after the Stonewall Inn in New York and Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. [DCist] MORE »

Look everybody, it’s your new failed Commerce Secretary nominee, Gary Locke. At least that’s what the reporters are saying! He is what the AP terms a “Chinese-American,” which could mean anything. He was the first “Chinese-American” governor of Washington, the state, from 1997 to 2005. So why will he have to withdraw? Eh, who knows, the AP is going insane about some campaign contribution controversy from back in the day. Meh. All we know is that when you google-image his name, you get not only the accompanying picture but a mirror image of it too in the first handful of results. Is Gary Locke a witch? [AP]

Monday, Feb. 23: Last Lion is an anthology of Boston Globe articles about one of Boston’s top five-ish most famous All-Time Kennedys, Teddy Kennedy. The book’s editor Peter Canellos will be giving a talk at Politics & Prose, and hopefully the “Other” of the Kennedys, Caroline, will not be mentioned in any way, lest Canellos would like the book to, we don’t know, unpublish itself, or fuck Arthur Sulzberger. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose] MORE »

Well, that’s that: The only places you can now smoke in Virgina are on private property, in the outdoors, and in sin. [DC Examiner] MORE »

What’s happenin’ everyone? Besides America’s anniversary with its first wife, George Washington, we mean. Books, books are what’s happening. Lots of books about the military and its history, if that is your “thing.” Also some meta-novel about moving to Europe, and another new book that proves, with Science, that Obama is nothing more than an Hawaiian Hugo Chavez. Plus, poetry! MORE »