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Quotes of the Day Created by Morgan Howlan, age 5. Appeared in New Times. Marc Ambinder not keen on 'poking' David Brooks "I do not know why Facebook suggests that I poke David Brooks, but I think I shall reject their suggestion." --Contributing Editor for GQ and The Atlantic Marc Ambinder, who is up awfully early for an L.A. based writer. This tweet was written at 5:20 a.m. which is 2:20 PT. Brooks is a conservative columnist for NYT. Convo Between Two Journo Types A sampling from JRC's Steve Buttry: 1. "Amtrak just canceled our Acela train. Seriously." 2. "My last Amtrak trip from NY to DC was delayed 3 hours by a fatality on the track. Now we're thrown off in Philly for a 'bridge problem.'" 3. "But I'm not patient." 4. "Avis didn't honor our reservation, but we were working w/ another guy whose reservation worked." Jeff Jarvis, blogger and J-School prof: "Steve Buttry, I'm surprised even your wife travels with you. Hell, I'm surprised any conveyance sells you a ticket." It's Raining Jean Shorts! "I am counting the # of jean short-tank top combos today. Despite that it's a thing, it shouldn't be. We are not a beach town. #dcpride" -- Metro Weekly White House Correspondent Chris Geidner. In other weekend observations, Roll Call's John Stanton saw this: "Black leather bannana hammock + rainbow angel wings + pasty ass white skin = gay pride weekend on U St." Real Life Bulls%!t "Just saw a pregnant woman carrying a baby crossing a street without crosswalk while texting... #whatswrongwithpeople" -- Thomas Tobin, executive producer at NBC4. Dinner Faux Pas "Got back to my table, and @michaelpfalcone was using my napkin. Dude.... #RTCADinner" -- Retiring Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) at the RTCA dinner Friday night on Falcone, deputy political director for ABC News. McCotter also remarked on CBS's Steve Chaggaris, saying, "Finally met @stevechaggaris - he's skinnier in person than on TV." In other RTCA dinner news, WJLA TV reporter Mike Conneen, meanwhile, observed this: "AWKWARD! At @rtcadinner, Steve Kroft accepts award a few ft away from Speaker Boehner for story exposing Congressional insider trading." Kroft works for CBS's "60 Minutes." UPDATE and Correction: Cheggaris recently returned to CBS as Executive Editor, Washington of CBSNews.com. He is no longer with Yahoo! News. Before that he was at TBD. The above has been changed to reflect the facts. Surprise. Surprise. A WaPo technological failure. "My @washingtonpost app has crashed 3 times this morning! I suppose I could go pick up the paper at the end of my driveway." -- Christine Montgomery, chief digital officer at the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch. The Appointed Media Critic "It's funny how @HowardKurtz has hard lefties like David Shuster on his show, but the best he can do for a righty is Jennifer Rubin…?" -- The Daily Caller's TV reporter Jeff Poor referencing lefty radio host Shuster and WaPo's right-leaning blogger Rubin. In case you missed it over the weekend, MSNBC Contributor, author and Daily Beast Contributor Meghan McCain tweeted a picture of her crotch. By Saturday morning, it had been deleted. Lucky for her, she wasn't going commando. See here.

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