Oh, D.C. Madam. Are you trying to win us back after we broke it off with you for being a terrible tease? If so, this is a pretty good start. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) admitted last night that his telephone number appeared in Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s phone records, making him the first member of Congress to be outed as a client of the so-called D.C. Madam. “This was a very serious sin in my past…

We never believed the myth that bloggers were asocial. Sure, we spend hours and hours hunkered behind our keyboards pouring out our thoughts to our little obscure niches of cyberspace, but we’ve been known to go to bars occasionally, where a few people have even been known to join us. We’ve observed that D.C.’s blogosphere is fairly fragmented, and contains little niches of activity here and there. We were excited to see two D.C. blogs…

Local blogger Julian Sanchez notes a recent NPR piece by reporter Ben Gilbert talking about Dodgeball. No, not the horrific elementary school gym game whose painful, awkward memories haunt you to this day; Dodgeball is more of a social service, often described as a Friendster for your cell phone. This is how it works: A user sends a text message with his location to Dodgeball, and the server relays the message to the user’s list…