- David Ferriero has been named the new Archivist of the National Archives, the tenth such figure to hold the position. As such, he must regularly square off against Nicolas Cage, keep an eye out for Tom Hanks, and stay abreast of Ben Stiller’s whereabouts.
- This sure is the most horrifying story I’ve read in ages.
- The macaron is the new cupcake. If Metrocurean says so, I will believe it. Then I will continue to favor my dessert of choice, the half-smoke.
- A Washington Times employee scooped up sensitive police documents left on a curb near a 7-11 in Northeast detailing travel details and maps for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). No surprise that he’s the subject of special Capitol Police security: There’re bound to be a lot of pissed-off Hill staffers spending a blue Christmas at the Hawk n’ Dove if Hoyer follows through on threats to keep the House in session right up to Christmas Eve. But the Times story buries the lede. The Washington Times still has employees? Cops hang out at 7-11??
- The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning fashion critic has an analysis of the Salahis and “tall, thin, white, blond privilege” that you should feel free to ignore alongside every other story about the Salahis.
- More on the nearly book-free new library that opened today, the one at whose opening Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council member Tommy Wells whispered to one another dreams of shuttlecraft.
- Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is now saying that an attempt on her life by the Russian mafia — or by the Russian government, it’s sort of a six-of-one situation they have going over there — was in fact merely car trouble. Yes, the sort of exploding car trouble that silences critics who tell inconvenient truths about gulags.
- Could this graffito mark a new low in Stephen Colbert’s efforts to tar the dignity of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton?
- Special thanks to the indefatigable Sommer Mathis for allowing me to guest-spot for her today.
Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?
