RNC Chairman and amateur stand-up comedian Michael Steele traveled to historically black Howard University to give a speech yesterday, and succeeded in insulting both his hosts and the visiting whites lured to Howard by this Republican man!

CSPAN has assembled an adorable package of the Washington, DC TV pundit gerontocracy trying to come to terms with The Twitter; naturally we've reduced this to only the most embarrassing bits.

Marion Barry—master politician, crack aficionado, crazy man, national treasure for reporters (and still married, btw!)—says he didn't really stalk his girlfriend last weekend, as much as he had a "spat" with her, but she's unstable. Or...something.

Marion Barry was arrested yesterday! He was collared after "after a woman flagged down an officer and complained Barry was stalking her." Barry's re-election as D.C.'s mayor after being busted for crack in 1994 is political comeback precedent. [AP]

The Washington Post sent a flier to DC corporate lobbyists and other scum offering them an exclusive, schmoozy dinner with political officials and Post reporters for only $25,000. Now they're disavowing it! Come now. They were just too honest.

Gambling, gangsters, celebrities, creeps—Las Vegas is "journalism heaven," says this guy. OH? We know a few cities that would dispute that. Newspapers may be dying, but news is alive and well. Where are America's Best Stories? Candidates below!

The Washington Post, which pays money to opinion writers such as Bill Kristol (smarmy) and Richard Cohen (smarmier), has fired blogger Dan Froomkin, one of the only WaPo opinion writers who pointed out that the Bush White House was crooked.

Updated:An elderly anti-Semite named James W. von Brunn is believed to be the shooter at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. Author of anti-Semitic Kill the Best Gentiles, he's known as a hero among white supremacists.

Jonathan Tilove is a veteran Washington reporter who's seen three different employers close their bureaus in the past year. Have faith: this week, the Virgin Mary appeared on his desk:

Well well, a new poll of 43 of America's fanciest "Media Insiders" reveals this: two thirds(!) of them think the internet hurts journalism more than it helps. Poll time!

Could the White House at least vet candidates for fashion sense, if not their arrest records? Vivek Kundra, the scandal-drenched federal CIO, was arrested in 1996 for shoplifting four dress shirts. From J.C. Penney.

America is a land of hope, where you can steal, plead guilty, have your office raided by the FBI, and still get a job in the White House. Like Vivek Kundra, Obama's CIO!

Are you aware that there is a secret "listserv" populated by Washington's most self-important journalists, where they conspire on how to control the world via their influential ramblings? This thing is big! And secret!

In the annals of vetting, this will go down as the most laughable miss ever: Vivek Kundra, the D.C. official tapped by Obama to run government technology, pleaded guilty to a theft charge in 1997.

Vivek Kundra, the White House's chief information officer, has been placed on leave after Yusuf Acar, a technology manager in the D.C. government who previously worked for Kundra, was arrested on bribery charges.

FBI agents have raided the former office of Vivek Kundra, a D.C. official tapped to be Barack Obama's chief information officer. A Kundra lieutenant has been arrested on bribery charges. But Kundra's clear, we think!

Heartbreaking news: young conservatives in Washington are feeling socially ostracized because their party is no longer "cool." Cheer up guys, you were always dorks. At least you're still good for hilarious quotes!

Ever since the heroic War on Terror began, the Pentagon hasn't let the media cover the arrival home of the coffins of dead US soldiers. Now maybe they'll loosen that ban...because the Pentagon hates war?

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe pissed off the prim DC media (and revealed himself to be kind of an ass!) when he demanded that a speech he was giving today be off the record.

Journalists tend to be liberals because they tend to be educated but not wealthy, and haughty smartasses. So it's no surprise ex-journalists are pouring into Obama administration jobs. Why can't they just admit their fandom?