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Quotes of the Day BIRTHDAY GIRL: "Bom dia Rio. Thanks sun for coming out today on my birthday eve." -- USA Today travel writer Nancy Trejos. Ouch! "Maybe if Holly Petraeus spent a little less time at the CPFB......." -- Free Beacon's Michael Goldfarb. Right-wing writer concedes one nice thing about Obama "The one -- ONE -- thing I agree with Barack Obama on is that Homeland is the best show on TV." -- TWT senior ppinion writer Emily Miller. From a very nerdy Dept. of Bragiculture... "Cool moment. Ran into Sen. Leahy just now at DCA. We talked about Phish. He said his son knows Trey. He's a Dead guy but loves Phish, too." -- National Review Online's Robert Costa. Reporter makes desperate plea for coffee "One million preteen kids just boarded my metro car. Save me. #havenothadenufcoffeeforthis" -- WSJ bank reg reporter Victoria McGrane. The Ass Kisser "Very interesting piece here by @DylanBiers." -- Commentary's John Podhoretz. (Last week the pair was bickering until PodWhore realized Byers wasn't actually insulting him. Now they're in love. ) Scribe says other woman's hubby is alleged douchebag "You're a pretentious douchebag if Dear Abby isn't good enough for your problems and you have to seek out the NY Times 'Ethicist' columnist." -- The Daily Caller TV writer Jeff Poor. (The Ethicist received a letter frighteningly similar to the situation swirling around Paula Broadwell, alleged mistress to General David Petraeus.) And this from a facetious Politico reporter... "Dear Ethicist: I work in an information security-related field but am considering writing explicit and career-destroying emails. Help me?" -- Politico's Alexander Burns. The Complimenter "The 2013 Calendar sent out to all its print subscribers reminds me of what an amazing photographer team @washingtonpost has on its rolls." -- WSJ's Raju Narisetti, formerly of WaPo. NPR's Andy Carvin works on final edit of his book in Istanbul, a publicist weighs in on latest sex scandal to rock D.C., a CNN Contributor has a problem with his hip flexor and two straight journos have a gay convo... Just an ordinary day at a café "An armored personnel carrier with a water cannon just trundled past the cafe. And the klezmer band plays on." -- Carvin. Sex scandal fallout "Relationships are complicated, especially ones involving infidelity. But in a world that craves simple narratives, Petraeus's mistress is about to get cast as Glenn Close in 'Fatal Attraction.'" -- National Journal publicist Taylor West. "I hope the next CIA director is better at keeping secrets." -- WaPo's Lindsay Applebaum. "If Petraeus wasn't victim of honey trap (& it seems not), then multiple foreign govts must be kicking themselves tonight." -- The Daily Mail's Toby Harnden. "Remember as a kid when you thought the spies got all the gals? Yeah... Turns out at a cost.#adultproblems" -- YG Action Fund and former House Maj. Leader Eric Cantor flack Brad Dayspring. "I could not care less about Petraeus's marriage. I kind of wish these things wouldn't be disqualifying, but D/CIA position is based on trust." -- The Week's Marc Ambinder. Roland has hip flexor issue "Hip flexor still bothering me, but I don't sit down at football games, even here. That's how we were taught at Texas A&M; only at halftime." -- CNN Contributor and Washington Watch's Roland Martin. Convo Between Two Media Journos CNN and The Daily Beast's Sexy Beast Howard Kurtz: "A gay villain in a Bond film? The world has changed since I started reading 007." (Kurtz links to this story on The Daily Download by Andy Roth.) Slate's Jack Shafer: "You have bad gaydar."

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