Photo by Joe in DC

  • Inauguration lockdown is now in effect. Just don’t even think about driving your car anywhere.
  • Parts of downtown Washington may be a Prostitution Free Zone, but that doesn’t mean hookers and coke dealers aren’t doing brisk business this weekend.
  • Biden gaffe — but this time it’s Jill Biden! At live Oprah taping at Kennedy Center, Mrs. Biden said that her husband “had the choice to be secretary of state or vice president,” a slip that Hillary Clinton couldn’t have appreciated.
  • If your normal trash day is Monday, the city will be picking up your trash tomorrow. If your normal trash day is Tuesday, your pick-up day has been moved to Wednesday.
  • President Bush commuted the sentences of two former border patrol agents who were convicted of shooting an unarmed Mexican drug dealer in Texas in 2005.
  • The presence of so many National Guard troops in town is making some locals nervous.