Two of the 11 Secret Service personnel who allegedly solicited prostitutes and escorts last week while on duty in Cartagena, Colombia were identified yesterday. One, David Randall Chaney, was on Sarah Palin's detail in 2008. more ›

D.C. Fire & Emergency Medical Services posted notice that fire boat and special ops teams are on the scene at the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, where a woman apparently jumped or fell from the bridge. The bridge is temporarily closed in both directions as rescuers searched the bridge and immediate shore area for the woman. No luck finding her -- witnesses on hand said that the woman swam to shore after hitting the water. Now it is far, far too nice out today to go dragging everybody's day down with what my friend Phoebe calls a "Sarah Palin Move." Palin, you see, announced her resignation from the governorship of Alaska on the 4th of July, meaning that journalists like Phoebe had to work instead of eating delicious hot dogs. Let's hope this unidentified woman was in fact making the best of the nice weather and going for a big splash -- not big splash. more ›

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In the off chance you aren't friends with Sarah Palin on Facebook, let it be noted that the former Alaska governor/VP candidate/attention starved loon/media juggernaut announced last night that she will indeed be making a stop in the D.C. area on her book tour. This may come as a shock, but it turns out she's not planning on promoting Going Rogue at Politics & Prose. In fact, she won't be at a bookstore at all. Instead, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 5, she'll be out at the BJ's at 13053 Fair Lakes Shopping Center in Fairfax, presumably so she can rub elbows with the "real Americans" who buy in bulk. Mark your calendars! more ›

Everyone's freaking out about this video of Sarah Palin being interviewed in front of a live turkey slaughter immediately after pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving. Should her aides have moved her away from the killing machine before she started talking to reporters? Of course. Has Palin just further confirmed that she's a ridiculous person? Uh huh. Does it make the fact that "pardoning" a turkey for Thanksgiving is a meaningless, treacly tradition meant to make us feel a little less guilty about the largesse of America's fattest holiday somehow less real? Nope. more ›

Every once in a great while, we like to share the worst press releases we received in our inbox in a given day. Or a given month, for that matter. You may remember the exciting news from KFC that they had sent a letter to Jennifer Lopez, for example. Today's doozy comes to us from Travelzoo, a web site heretofore believed by this editor to be a rather helpful source of email alerts for good vacation deals — a belief that may now require some revision. more ›

Every blogger in America is scrambling to pull together some kind of background information on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain named as his running mate this morning. The hits are generally these: She's been governor for a little under two years; she used to be a sports reporter and later mayor of Wasilla City; she took second place in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest; she's super pro-life. She's also being investigated by the Alaska state legislature on allegations that she fired her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper for personal reasons. more ›