A D.C. government made a funny today, and we approve.

The Maryland man being accused of threatening a Colorado-style shooting at his workplace was found yesterday with guns, ammunition and a particularly interesting t-shirt.

Municipal budget negotiations are notoriously stodgy affairs, so we can appreciate that there’s at least one member of the Council who is at least able to lend some levity to the proceedings. Cue Mary Cheh!

I have to be honest — the DCist staff was about 95 percent sure that the Craigslist ad for a 16-cat Dupont sublet which we featured yesterday afternoon was a fake. And that was well before I received an email from one “Fred Decatt” (get it?) last night, claiming to be the poster and asking me to be “more receptive and tolerant of cat enthusiasts such as myself” in future posts. Of course, by the time another reader forwarded us an email exchange in which the photo to the right was proffered as a photo of Bitnum, one of the cats listed in the ad, well, the inauthenticity of the ad was pretty much a foregone conclusion.

The topic of Virginia’s license plates is hardly new to us — whether they’re expressing opinions on sexual preferences, voting rights or a radical political philosophy, we’re always marveling at the Commonwealth’s bevy of personalization options, which often foster an impressive, if character-limited, verbosity. But based on one man’s story, Virginia is only cool with collecting revenue via thousands of personalized plates if they can also be the arbiter of what is and isn’t offensive.