• February 13, 2012

snow

First they predicted 12-20 inches, and we said nothing. Then… other predictions were made… and now it’s 18-24 inches with a special Bonus Prize of “you will die, -ish” for a small band hovering over Washington, DC, the mutilated-diamond-shaped federal office park where man’s greatest dreams come to be filibustered. Clutch your loved ones! (Because [...]

Ha ha, those old people had to stay at work until 1 a.m. this morning after being stuck in the smelly old Senate for the entire snowbound weekend, and now Health Care Reform is just another three 60-vote procedural operations from becoming a real true Senate law the House can screw up. YIPPEE!

Millions of D.C.’s hippest Twitterers coordinated a massive cross-street snowball fight at the major intersection of U & 14th streets NW today, to regale in the fruits of God’s most terrifying thundersnowstorm from Hell. A victory for spontaneous social network organizing! Or not? Because at some point during this apocalyptic spectacle, a frustrated undercover cop [...]

A tipster has just e-mailed us, from her telephone, the single sentence message, “Why aren’t you reporting on the gynormous snow storm coming our way?”, which is such an oddly hilarious demand that we will now do it. BREAKING: there is a “gynormous” snow storm preparing to bufu Washington D.C. back into the Stone Age, [...]

White House star photographer Pete Souza is just cold runnin’ around snapping pictures of the snow blanketing Washington today. The shadowy female figure walking through the snow is a terrible ghost. [White House]

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is so busy, with his interior responsibilities, that after his own press conference, he pretended to pretend to be a reporter for a full 45 minutes of Robert Gibbs’ press briefing. [The Caucus] The ongoing O’Reilly/Alba feud in still ongoing. Its exciting denouement has already featured the two of them competing [...]