Man, if there was ever a Senator who should not ask strangers "do you know who I am?" it is David Vitter of Louisiana. And yet, that is what he said at Dulles last week. Vitter is famous mostly for sleeping with prostitutes and then just not resigning over it, even after everyone in the world heard ...

This week we’ll get to see the White House explosion that they prematurely previewed 2 weeks ago and Jack Bauer’s JBKC is at 24. I’m expecting that will rise significantly this week. Also predicting a death for Bill Buchanan, and maybe Senator Meyers and Aaron Pierce as well. We mi...

Besides being the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial the in the National Mall of Washington, DC, Maya Lin, also designed the interior of the Museum for African Art in New York City, a Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, Wave Field, a relaxing plot of grass on the campus of the U of...

It’s not looking like the indefinite hold that was put on the D.C. Vote Bill earlier this week will be lifted anytime soon: D.C. vote supporters said yesterday that they are targeting more than 60 conservative congressional Democrats in hopes of securing enough support to bring the voting righ...

View towards Massachusetts Avenue and K Street from the Washington Convention Center. The Washington Monument is visible in the distance but hard to make out in this photo. This entry was published at Grapefeed. Kindly comment there....

View towards Massachusetts Avenue and K Street from the Washington Convention Center. The Washington Monument is visible in the distance but hard to make out in this photo....

Eliot Spitzer bought a building in DC! It's a 13-story office tower whose tenants include a PR firm. It's also a short, lovely walk from the historic Mayflower Hotel! Look, we mapped it out. Point A up there is the Mayflower and point B is Elliot's new building. Ok, let's get to the embarrassing quo...

Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume. Data centers, central to the nation's cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipme...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York has been a self-styled education mayor. He’s made all sorts of proposals and tried several different angles — some good some not so good — to improve the education of the kids of New York. He has, though, been a proponent of school choice and thi...

The stuffed-dough Spanish turnover called the empanada dates back to an ancient Arab dish, first created around the 8th-century. The delicious baked or deep-fried pockets are filled with savory meats and vegetables, or with sweetened fruit and served as a dessert. Fillings vary as much as the cultur...