The readers have spoken and you would very much like to have back the Previous Posts button at the bottom of the page. Consider it not quite done, but very high on our agenda. You might also, well, not have noticed changes at all if you come to DCist via Google Reader. The powers that be are working on that, too. The above video serves to remind that things could always be worse.

Which in turn is a handy sentiment for surviving the week through Thursday, no?

» The Washington Post’s Leonard Shapiro laments the loss of the “Redskins Report”, which NBC4 decided to cut despite its popularity.

» ABC7 reports that D.C. vendors think that the city’s inauguration fees are too high.

» Link-less Currents says (via Mike DeBonis) that D.C. cannot has an Apple store. Iz Georgetown’s fault.

» Hundreds of thousands of District citizens willfully threw their money away this week. The story of Jermaine Jones, who also decided to throw away his money, will ensure that thousands more do so again. Jones came away from the Powerball lotto with a cool million dollars, as NBC4 explains.

» A less-legal get-rich-quick scam comes to an end, reports ABC7, when would-be money forgers failed to take the owners of a Chinese restaurant on a $100,000 ride. Doesn’t anyone just take money from D.C. tax offices the old-fashioned way?

» The Washington Post writes that Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) wants to look at national prison reform. But for Webb, prison reform needs to start at home: Virginia is one of a select group of states (including North Korea and the Skrull Empire) to completely abolish parole, and though it executes fewer inmates than does Texas, Virginia law allows for capital punishment for a wider number of crimes.