> > Pour one out for Coach Janky Spanky. Clinton Portis will receive surgeries for his bum shoulder and broken hand, which means he’s headed to the IR for the rest of the season. It’ll be up to Ladell Betts to carry the rock, though, who knows? Maybe the coaches will remember their costly impulse-buy TJ Duckett, mouldering on the bench. [Washington Post]

> > The U.S. House of Representatives is filled stem to stern with unlikeable people, but Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, who will serve as the Representative for Texas’ 22nd District for so very few hours that we won’t even be referring to her as “Congresswoman”, appears to be bent and determined to be the most loathesome of them all. [Wonkette]

> > In fact, why can’t we send Sekula-Gibbs to some zoo in Tampa, instead of our only giraffe? [NewsChannel 8]

> > This story–about gruesome new evidence turning up in an Atlanta hit-and-run case, has nothing to do with Washington, DC, but we have to ask the good people at WUSA Channel 9: What’s up with the accompanying picture? This doesn’t appear to be the arm mentioned in the story. Did someone pose for this picture? Was it from your stock files of detatched arms? And did you not think your Web site’s readers would be able to grasp the headline, “Arm, Shoulder Found Near Roadway,” without the visual aid? [WUSA9.com]

> > Tomorrow morning, be the first to take in the National Museum of American History new exhibition: “Treasures of American History.” The exhibition features such items as Dorothy’s ruby slippers, Abraham Lincoln’s stovepipe hat and Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves. Join National Museum of American History director Brent Glass and National Air and Space Museum deputy director Don Lopez for this first look. There will be munchkins on hand. At the National Air and Space Museum, Sixth Street and Independence Avenue NW. Contact: 202-633-3129.

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