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D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton today introduced a bill that would allow District residents to elect their own District Attorney for the first time.

Beginning today, every fifth person you see on the Metro for the next nine months will be reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. And for the next year or two, every third tourist you see will be on a quixotic quest to see for themselves all the D.C. "locations" where the fictional events in the book took place.

This video of Al Franken doing his standard party trick of drawing the United States map has been making its way around the 'webs. Now we're not going to beg, like Alaska or Hawaii, but where's the District of Columbia on your map, Sen. Franken? This isn't even a question of voting rights, just plain ol' accuracy. And unlike Florida (America's wang), the tiny little rectangle is easy to draw.

NBCwashington reports that Nationals season ticket holders -- the bloated throng of humanity that they are -- will get first dibs on the chance to be extras in the upcoming Owen Wilson/Reese Witherspoon flick, which has a working title of How Do You Know? (Honestly, the news that the film will apparently contain scenes of actual baseball -- instead of the two blonde actors just talking about their feelings or whatever -- is probably the real news here. Also: Paul Rudd.) Filming at Nationals Park begins in two weeks. If you're really desperate to be in a James L. Brooks rom-com but somehow don't possess Nationals season tickets, you can go wait in line at the park -- auditions will run on Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. Considering that individuals who have the disposable income to buy Nationals season tickets likely don't have a desire to waste time standing in the background of a movie scene for five seconds, folks in line might have a half-decent shot.

The official press release from the District regarding the two probable cases of swine flu at George Washington University is below. Unlike the Obama advance guy and the World Bank employee, both of whom live in Maryland, these two cases are being counted in the District proper. Note that the city is directing residents to www.doh.dc.gov for further updates and information.

Following in the fine form of fellow New Yorker Jennifer 8. Lee, former D.C. resident and Gawker editor Alex Pareene took some time out of his busy schedule of posting items about Peggy Noonan's supposed penchant for cheap vodka to remind Washingtonians that we'll "never be cool." To wit:

DC isn't cool. It's boring. The hip and cool new DC residents brought to town to work for the Obama administration? Uh, they're "hip" and "cool" in a really, really relative sense. Like, cooler than 50-year-old Heritage Foundation senior research fellows.

Who possibly could argue with such solid rock solid generalizations? Well, let's check out his arguments, just for kicks. It wouldn't be a fair and accurate examination if one didn't. According to Pareene, here's the incredibly pressing issues with the District that have lead him to such a conclusion:

Here's a few more reports by DCist contributors from all over the city last night. Spontaneous celebrations erupted across Washington when Barack Obama was declared the winner of the 2008 presidential election.

Video from 11th and U Streets from voteprime

I'm still processing what happened last night. One minute, I was gathered in a living room with friends, watching election returns come in. The next minute, Barack Obama had been declared the winner, his moving acceptance speech was over, and I was in the middle of the intersection at 14th and U Streets NW with thousands of other D.C. residents, yelling, singing, high-fiving and hugging total strangers.

The Washington Capitals signed NHL MVP Alexander Ovechkin to hockey's first hundred million dollar contract last season, so the Capitals once again boast the league's leading scorer. Welcome back fast-skating, obscenely talented left winger Ovechkin, who likes to warm up for games by playing soccer in Crocs, falls to the ice with joy when he scores, and ignores jellyfish postings when he goes for a swim.