- The big national news this afternoon is the Senate’s 57-40 procedural vote centering on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — since Democrats were unable to secure 60 votes, opponents of the controversial policy will have to focus solely on court proceedings to overturn it.
- SNL’s Seth Meyers has landed hosting duties at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, reports Mike Allen.
- Short version of Metro’s schedule for Christmas and New Year’s: just pretend that every day is Sunday.
- The Fonz tells Fishbowl DC that the City Paper’s article on Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein isn’t that big of a deal. (I’m pretty sure that this actually happened and isn’t just something I dreamt.)
- TBD has some terrifying details about a pair of sexual assaults alleged to have occurred last month in Crystal City.
- Maryland Senator Ben Cardin has suggested moving the New Beginnings Youth Development Center from its current location in Laurel to the Walter Reed site, notes the Washington Business Journal.
- The Examiner reports that Kaplan, the education arm of The Washington Post Co., laid off 770 employees this week, which is five percent of the organization’s workforce.
- Discovery Communications will erect a fence around a garden at its headquarters before reopening it to the public — obviously, the organization has been quite conservative when it comes to safety of late.
- And now, your moment of Zen.
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