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...term, there will be a First Lady-themed show Monday night with Town's own drag queens. Expect to ogle Betty Ford, Michelle Obama, Nancy Reagan and other dead ringers. Order your very own $3 Dick Cheney shooter and relish other "drink specials to stimulate your package" at the bar that stretches 68 feet. Word on the street? Stay on the lookout for VIPs like Cyndi Lauper, Rufus Wainwright and Melissa Etheridge...
...this holed-up dive bar, one of the favorites on the Hill, Buffalo burgers and Yuengling pints are devoured by locals of all ages. Named for terms popularized during the Vietnam War, this low-key joint is a fun maze of backrooms, each designed to fit a different energy. Hop upstairs to the recently dedicated "Obama Loft" for some dancing. Obama had a fundraiser here in 2004; banners are stretched across each of the six rooms, personally welcoming the President in case he returns. A wall hanging displays campaign stickers from recent years, with slapstick slogans like "Let's Kerry...
Tucked almost invisibly into an office building at Metro Center, TOSCA is Washington's leading mecca of great Italian cuisine. One of the many lures of this quiet, well-regarded eatery - which has catered to everyone from Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton - is its lovely bar. There, amid the politicos and lobbyists who fill the place each evening, you'll find Jay the barkeep who will make you a margarita so smooth and sublime that while you may forget where you are, you will never forget what you are drinking. And if you aren't ready for something that strong...
...event that I need to run through a burning plane. I wear lace-up shoes. In the event of an impact, people's shoes have been known to fly off them, particularly flip-flops and other "convenient" shoes. Typically, people have a couple of pops at the bar, put on earphones; they put on blindfolds, they take off their shoes, and they go to sleep. But research has shown that the first three minutes of a plane flight and the last eight - this is called the rule of plus three/minus eight - are when about 80% of airplane accidents take place...
...this four-alarm economic emergency (nearly 2 million jobs have vanished in four months), it's easy to forget that shovel-ready doesn't necessarily mean shovel-worthy. Many projects are shovel-ready now only because they failed to clear the spectacularly low bar Congress set for pork in the past. Even if we're freaking out about today - and we should be - we can't afford to leverage tomorrow to build the infrastructure equivalent of buried banknotes, not when the deficit is a record $1.2 trillion and the debt a staggering $10.6 trillion. A depression would make both problems...