• Wal-Mart has a "war room." Uhm, sure. Got some kids phone banking? WAR ROOM. You could call a hallway a war room and it would get a story. Uhm, oops. That happened. [NYT, WMW]

• "The Situation Room" becomes "Situation Mansion." Twenty-fucking-five percent of CNN's programming yesterday was Blitzerriffic. Fuck. [FishbowlDC]

• DC mayor Anthony Williams, blogger. Or not. [DCist]

• The senate's "closed session"... Legislative maneuvering or lounge-lizard call of love? "The public was ordered out of the chamber, the lights were dimmed, and the doors were closed." [FishbowlNY]

• "I am a wino panda named Butterstick..." [Flickr]