— If you haven’t had enough fun playing around with the Los Angeles Times‘ wiki-enabled interactive editorial, take a look at John Daniszewski’s dispactch from Tehran about charges of official manipulation in the recent elections … and saying that “[n]ew doubts and divisions have come into view” regarding the Iraq war, Paul Richter tracks conservative North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones Jr. and his shifting stance on Iraq and how that’s playing back home …

— The New York Times today seems to be a perfect storm of personal randomness. First, this DCist’s hometown, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been intricately analyzed by John Leland and Jodi Wilgoren in a huge examination of Social Security’s realities out in River City (seen from the beloved Fish Ladder in the photo above we took back in December). And then in the City section’s special Brooklyn issue, the blog of DCist’s Jason Linkins was cited in an article about how Queens will never be Brooklyn, written by Jeff VanDam, who we happened to run into at a party last night on T Street, oddly enough.

From DCeiver, via the NYT:

Brooklyn is the new Manhattan. Queens is the New Brooklyn. Staten Island is the Old Staten Island. Islip is the new Long Island City. Hoboken is the new Bethesda.

(Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza is pictured here)

Elsewhere, the David Coleman investigates muddled gaydar … Amy Harmon shines light on the real save NPR/PBS e-mail petitions vs. the fake ones that’s been circulating online since 1995 … and Leslie Wayne looks at the Pentagon’s revolving door.

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