In honor of the end of the “Colbert Report.”
One of the at least 24 couples whose National Mall wedding was put on hold because of the government shutdown found a new venue last night: The Colbert Report.
Man, can’t believe we almost missed this. Thanks to Loose Lips Daily for pointing out this Colbert Report bit on the D.C. Voting Rights Act. Colbert clearly loves any excuse to have D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton back on his show. Norton says on air she thinks she’ll have a vote on the floor of the U.S. House within a month. Colbert then agreed to come to D.C. to accept a key to the city…
Another classic installment of the 434-part Better Know a District series from the Colbert Report last night saw host Stephen Colbert question whether Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) realized that when he voted for the D.C. Voting Rights Act, it applied to Washington, D.C., and not his home state of Washington. Just another example of how Colbert is doing his part to keep our disenfranchisement in the public eye. Smith was also willing to admit…
If you work on the Hill you might still have time to run over to the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342 for the hearing Equal Representation in Congress: Providing Voting Rights to the District of Columbia before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The hearing, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., will include testimony split into two panels, the first with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), Mayor…
This week we’d like to congratulate the -ist network’s Mother Hen, Gothamist’s Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine’s Wired Rave Award. If that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that’s right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making…
Last night congressional delegate and all around bad-ass Eleanor Holmes Norton made another appearance on the Colbert Report. Once again she epitomized “in on the joke.” While Colbert complained that creating two new seats sets back his ongoing effort to “better know” 434 members of Congress, Norton generously extended the city’s good will; “I’m prepared on their behalf, on behalf of the people of the District of Columbia, either your apologies for making fun…
MONDAY The perniciousness of apartheid, as well as its utter inanity, is well distilled in the person of Sandra Laing. While born to white parents, her darker complexion caused authorities to classify her as black at age nine, then white again at age eleven. For people too casually comfortable with discrimination, Judith Stone’s account of Laing’s life, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race [in South Africa], is a…
Can you stand all the excitement that comes along with sifting through so many election results, race by race, this morning Washington? For political junkies like us, and we’re sure, like many of you, last night was an up way past our bedtimes, whiskey-infused, edge of our seats, shouting about the relative quality of cable news commentators’ hair dye jobs kind of time. And it’s not totally over yet. But before we get to the…
