LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark “Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid.” Is that a promise? They also give us this week’s best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They’re biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That’s right, Mapquest says “Houston had the…

DCist has learned that President Bush, who has been delivering a commencement speech in friendly GOP territory at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., was not informed by emergency response authorities that a large chunk of his capital was without water during the morning and afternoon today. OK, we’re only kidding here, forgive us, it’s Saturday … Anyway, we don’t think the president cares to know where Ward 1 is, despite that it is the…

When we saw the headline on the BBC’s homepage “Educating America: How the Christian Right is attempting to transform US culture” we clicked through, interested to find out precisely what our friends across the pond had discovered about America. We were even more interested when it turned out the story was a profile of a school just 50 miles from D.C., Patrick Henry College, founded in 2000 by a home school activist for primarily evangelical…

WUSA reported last week that Iraqi citizens living on the East Coast will have a chance to register and vote in their motherland’s elections (taking place at the end of this week) at the Ramada Inn in New Carrollton. To register, prospective voters must prove Iraqi citizenship and show that they were born before Dec. 31, 1986. At first, the suburban location of the center seems slightly illogical; however, the hotel’s proximity to New Carrollton’s…

The Post is reporting that President Bush may give a victory speech today, regardless of whether Kerry concedes defeat. From the Post: The White House has not yet announced what time Bush will appear. The campaign at first summoned reporters to appear at the Ronald Reagan Building between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. but then put off the event.” The BBC is reporting this morning that “Fears of Ohio Deadlock Start to Fade.” In other…

A Craigslist D.C. entry titled “Part Time work for a real go-getter” seeks to hire someone to help infiltrate something the author calls homeless football:Are you aware that certain Washington insiders have an underground football league that is made up entirely of homeless people? The location of the game changes weekly and the homeless participants are sworn to secrecy. They do not wear pads and some of them get really hurt. I have been to…