* "So what's next? Well, if the Senate again fails to vote on legislation granting the District a voting seat in the House, we could stick to the historical playbook. While the Boston Tea Party provoked a number of responses from Britain, it also inspired imitators. On October 19, 1774, American colonists set fire to the HMS Peggy Stewart in Annapolis to protest continued British taxes on certain goods. Anyone game for a symbolic ship-torching for voting rights?" [DCist]

* We don't need no water, let the...yeah, you get the point. [Metroblogging DC]

* "I would rather coat my balls in sweet cream and dip them in a basket full of hungry kittens than have to go through that shit again." [Brightest Young Things]

* Have a snarky, snarky Christmas. [Eavesdrop DC]

* "Please no emails about how to get phony green cards, I don't want the SWAT team from ICE all over me and waterboard my ass in Guantanamo Bay." [Diary of a Mad DC Cabbie]