“Why are you separating families?” one of the handful of protesters asks repeatedly.

No one is yet totally sure what caused a Jumbotron by the Washington Monument to go on the fritz during President Obama’s inaugural speech last week.

Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in college football history, has died at 85, his family announced this morning. The Washington Post has released audio excerpts of its interview with Paterno in the Penn State legend’s only public comments since his dismissal in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Look, if you haven’t yet taken a couple of minutes to listen to the newly released recordings of former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife, former county councilmember Leslie Johnson, talking on the phone in the minutes before federal agents busted down their door and took them into custody on bribery-related charges, we’re going to go ahead and recommend that you do that now.

We were taken aback by this beautiful photo by Samer Farha in the DCist Flickr pool this morning. After only a quick glance at the tag “Library of Congress,” I was trying to place this building somewhere in the city, but then realized this is a shot of the gorgeous architecture of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, out in Culpeper, Va. Tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains, both American and international film, television, and…

> > Tonight’s hidden agenda: those plucky plucks from McSweeney’s are in town tonight screening Wholphin, the “Audio-Visual” version of their magazine, The Believer. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served, but you should probably take anything they say about “lifetime subscriptions” with several grains of salt. At the Center for American Progress, 1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor. Take Orange/Blue to McPherson Square Station or Red to Metro Center. > > The…