The First Family has put out another one of their cringe-worthy “BarneyCam” holiday videos, featuring stilted conversations between them and their dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley. This year’s video features the two dogs sitting around with blank stares while the Bushes tell them that they want to be Junior Park Rangers. It doesn’t make any more sense when you watch it. The White House has also posted a handy transcript of the video, in…

The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview with Audrey Niffenegger, whose popular book, The Time Traveler’s Wife, was based in their fine city. They also had a heated discussion about Rush Limbaugh’s controversial Barack Obama parody, talked about whether Uncle Julio’s Hacienda is a good place to get…

Good morning, Washington. International politics watchers will no doubt spend their day today assigning meaning to the resignation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They’ll speculate about the future of the Labour party, and draw conclusions regarding the possible consequences to the war in Iraq. Here at DCist, we toil with no such weighty topics. Nay, we’ll spend our day fantasizing about what it must be like to live in a country where a massively…

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour Party boasts that one of its many accomplishments is that 200,000 more workers are now in recognized trade unions than were in the past — yet the 630 non-diplomatic employees at British embassies and consulates in the United States may soon be denied that very right. In the wake of cutbacks in sick leave and other such benefits in January, those employees voted to join the Silver Spring-based International…

Everyone at DCist would like to extend a warm welcome to our friends across the Atlantic. The team at Gothamist has been working to get Londonist off the ground and we’re happy to report that our newest sibling -ist site is in its public beta testing period. DCist’s most favorite London memory is back from the winter of 2000 when we were attacked by a toothless woman armed with lipstick while we were getting…