As our Gothamist friends picked up back in 2005, 28-year-old comedienne Jennifer Dziura is a pretty funny gal. After reading her bio, I quickly realized that I wanted to be her. The Dartmouth philosophy grad is a human smorgasbord, with past stints as a contraceptive tester, naked model for miscellaneous art schools, trapeze assistant, dot-com entrepreneur, and occasional comedy writer for McSweeney’s and the Idiot’s Guide to Jokes. Every Monday she emcees Williamsburg’s “Spelling Bee”…

(Editor’s Note: Washington is home to countless monuments, memorials and statues. Every Monday, DCist will feature one of the more obscure, unknown or off-the-beaten path sites around the city. We’ll hit the big memorials too, but we find that smaller monuments, like to Taras Shevchenko, James Buchanan and Temperance, tend to be more interesting.) Journalists have faced untold dangers and continue to risk their lives around the world to cover the news. And the…