* In case you missed her: Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz on Palin’s Katie Couric interview. “Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in her third interview since joining the Republican presidential ticket, licked her finger and stuck it in the air, saying that Sen. Barack Obama might wait and “see what way the political wind’s blowing” on the Wall Street rescue package,” he writes.
* For those interested in competing in one of those high-stakes, emotionally wrenching reality television programs—-and for those whose place of employment merely imitate them—-Slate‘s Joanna Weiss has your guide to how not to be the first contestant kicked off a reality show.
* New Columbia Heights has updates on the proposed neighborhood farmer’s market: At a recent ANC meeting, William Jordan proposed that the market be run by EMG Marketing Group and Change Inc. and be held three (!) times a week.
* Mr. T in D.C. bows respectfully to the employees of the Columbia Heights Subway sandwich shop:
I just wanted to thank them here today. By now, all the employees there recognize me, and know what kind of sandwich I usually get. . . . The two women who work there on weekday evenings are particularly helpful and pleasant. They recently told me they were from Eritrea; I wonder what their lives were like there? It’s not very far from lawless, violent places like Darfur and Somalia.
And in this newspaper:
* Arthur Delaney on D.C. Jail disaster readiness, terrorist threats, and the power of Google.
* Tim Carman tries to make a bagel, lies to City Paper staff.
* Mike DeBonis on the Nat’s stadium slush fund.
* … and the debut of Orr Shtuhl‘s Beerspotter!
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