Hands down the most cromulent article the Washington Post has ever published.

“You don’t win friends with salad,” said Homer Simpson. This week, plenty of restaurants will be trying to win people over with plenty of meat.

We’re all familiar with The Rules. You know, that iron clad system by which every woman can land herself the man of her dreams and keep him, if only she’s willing to act like the most obnoxious kind of person you’ve ever met. Of course, men have rules, too. They just don’t publish them. They’ve been passed down in locker rooms, cigar-choked men’s-only clubs, and fraternity houses for time immemorial. The fact is, I could…

By new DCist Food and Drink Contributor April Fulton Mmmm, Stoney Burgers. The mere mention of these large, luscious, beef patties served on a soft roll with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo and extra pickles — if you ask nicely — is enough to make Homer Simpson drool. Stoney’s burgers, cheap beer, “super grilled cheese” and its unabashedly ugly dark-wood-panel décor have fueled many a lunch or long evening for government workers, seniors, janitors, hipsters,…

We’re not sure how we missed that Brickfest 2005, a “celebration of Lego creativity” that highlighted creations by talented Lego builders, was happening in our own backyard this weekend at George Mason University, but we did. And now we are sad. Because it looks like it was totally fun. A Wired article we ran across talks about Brickfest and highlights the obsession and attention to detail that results in the creations:Arthur Gugick, a teacher from…

Again proving that members of Congress know what’s best for full-time residents of the District, Congressional Republicans have again hatched a plan to use their constitutional authority over D.C. to overturn the city’s stringent, yet overwhelmingly popular gun laws. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) announced yesterday that she had introduced the cynically-named “District of Columbia Personal Protection Act of 2005,” which would overturn the Firearms and Control Regulations Act of 1975, the law which banned…