- While I was at the Daily Show taping on Tuesday, one of the audience members asked Jon Stewart during his pre-show mingle who was going to be at his rally on Saturday. Stewart responded with a joke about how when someone plans on asking someone to marry them, no one is obsessed with digging up how they do it, they just enjoy the fact that someone might be getting married. Simply put, Stewart thinks that we shouldn’t really sweat the details — instead, that we just enjoy the rally on Saturday. Both Daily Intel (“The hand-wringing over “real-world impact” is pretty silly; if a couple of comedians change the results on Election Day, then the country really is in deep trouble.”) and City Paper’s Emily Kaiser (“This isn’t the first large-scale event on the Mall and it certainly won’t be the last.”) echo Stewart’s sentiments.
- Just in: the FBI has confirmed that the shooting at a Marine recruitment center in Chantilly was performed with the same weapon that fired shots on the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
- Oh, so now WABA says you should ride your bike to Saturday’s Rally. (Of course, there still won’t be any place to lock it up.)
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says that the District owes them more than $58 million for Medicaid charges that the city can’t substantiate. D.C. isn’t planning on paying up and will appeal.
- The Nats Blog has images of what a source claims to be a prototype for the new Nationals jerseys. Definitely a huge upgrade, if they turn out to be legit.
- Federal agents rather mysteriously raided and seized materials from the home of former National Archives department head Leslie Waffen.
- After several students have been involved in bike and scooter accidents recently, the University of Maryland is planning to enact new policies on helmets and bike and scooter registration.
- The more you know: the National Zoo reverts to its winter hours on November 1; buildings close at 4:30, grounds close at 6.
- Far be it from me to tell anyone what to call their own neighborhood, but I don’t foresee us talking about a restaurant opening in FRINJ anytime soon.
Photo by philliefan99.
