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Slate music writer Jonah Weiner has been getting a tremendous amount of ribbing on the internet for his latest counter-intuitive pop rock piece, "Creed is Good: Scott Stapp's nu-grunge foursome was seriously underrated." Weiner penned a similar defense of Limp Bizkit earlier this year, in fitting with his publication's overall reputation for being contrary just for the sake of it. For us, all of this is really just an excuse to link back to former DCist staffer Jason Linkins' classic Scott Stapp concert review, which if you've never read, you should do so now. Click here.

Not that it's a surprise that an event in D.C. was well attended this week, but the folks over at Slate had to be pretty thrilled at the turnout for their first ever live recording of one of its podcasts. More than 650 people braved the crowds in the District to get to the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue for the taping on Monday—no easy task given the traffic conditions in the surrounding Chinatown neighborhood. (D.C. Metro police had just begun the massive amount of street closures for the inauguration when the taping was getting started.)

David Nakamura caught Slate XX Factor blogger Melinda Henneberger making a lame, nearly inscrutable joke at the expense of D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi. The context, of all things, is the John Edwards affair scandal. Apparently Rielle Hunter made some comment to a reporter once that she thought Edwards has the potential to be a "transformational leader" on par with Martin Luther King and that other Gandhi. So Henneberger drops in a dreadful joke her husband apparently made playing the name game with Natwar Gandhi. She also misspells "Gandhi" both times. Whatever innuendo Gandhi might deserve for the Office of Tax and Revenue debacle, we'd be pretty hard pressed to find a way to bring him in to the Edwards saga.

Not very many media outlets have really mastered the art of producing web video, but Slate's team of online video producers tend to stand out from the pack (see their Larry Craig arrest report reenactment for further evidence). Via Matthew Yglesias, we get this truly funny report on the stupidest bike lines in America (and elsewhere in the world). Slate ended up giving the top honors to a 20-ft. stretch of bike lane they found in Silver Spring, Md., that literally goes nowhere. Have you guys ever seen this supposed "bike path"?