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In a discussion about covering 3 Mile Island, Andrea Mitchell shares a story with Rachel Maddow about asking her bureau chief if it ever occurred to him that "men's balls are as vulnerable as women's ovaries?" Now, I love Andrea Mitchell as much as the next guy but hearing her say "balls" is roughly as uncomfortable as watching my parents do the YMCA dance at a wedding reception. Enjoy!

Whoa! Remember going back to school and realizing that a friend got all "grown up" over vacation?! Well, hats off to hometown bloggers Ana Marie Cox and John Dickerson for breezing past the 1 Million Twitter Follower in recent days!

Ana Marie Cox (1,047,204)

John Dickerson (1,015,819)

In case you missed it, CBS's daily webcast "Washington Unplugged" took a walk down Presidential Vacation Memory Lane today, from Kennebunkport, to Crawford to Santa Barbara and Plains, GA with White House correspondents Bill Plante and Mark Knoller.

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Have your calls and emails to Street Sense editor Mary Otto gone unanswered? Don't take it personally. She was recently selected to participate in the prestigious Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, a "nine-month program that will allow her to learn from and study with the best and most knowledgeable in the field of science journalism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University". Founded in 2003, Street Sense's mission is to raise public awareness on the issues of homelessness and poverty in The District.

Speaking of cake ... exactly one year ago today ABC's Jake Tapper wasn't worried about the political symbolism of choosing the one piece of blue cake being served up by then-candidate (and birthday celebrant) Sen. Obama aboard the campaign's press plane.

(photo HuffPo)

Did you receive an email promotion from The National Press Club announcing that they were "currently waiving initiation fees!"? Okay, so why didn't you join?

If you've been in Washington for more than a summer, chances are you've been to an event (press conference, Taco Night) and marveled at the history of (and gazed upon the inductees' portraits at) this fabled institution. You've partaken greedily from the endless stream of popcorn at "the reliable source", too. With a hint of nostalgia that harkens back to another place in time, The Club's got history and flavor. Just steps from the White House - and pretty much everything else - The Press Building itself should be our national monument to free speech, journalism & social congregation! Having just turned 100, The National Press Club used to be a place where Washington media congregated post-post. So why aren't you there more often?

17 years ago John McLaughlin, Chris Matthews, Fred Barnes, Eleanor Clift and Clarence Page were debating who then-Governor Clinton would pick to be his running-mate. Back then [Christopher] Matthews wrote for The San Francisco Examiner and Barnes was a only a "syndicated columnist" pre-Weekly Standard. Who did these fabulously-coiffed experts predict?! Hint: it wasn't the guy who invented the internet.

Michigan Daily Photo Editor Zachary Meisner thinks an Obama photo altered by the Huffington Post is worth 'flipping' out over.

The photo in question appeared on HuffPo.com and portrayed a 'migrating' mole on the wrong side of President Obama's face. But Meisner confirmed that the president's mole didn't fly left for the winter by pitting the HuffPo's pic against an AP original. In reality, the Post's photo had simply been flipped.

By now you're thinking, "So what?" But according to Meisner, "flipping photos is a cardinal sin in photojournalism" because it "changes the reality a photo is meant to capture."

Meisner also notes that the use of Photoshop or other editing programs is a violation of AP photojournalism ethics. Check out Meisner's post and the photo that fired him up HERE.

What do you think? Is Meisner making a mountain out of a mole? Is this an issue of ethics or aesthetics?

From an internal note to White House reporters from the White House Correspondents' Association's Julia Whiston:

Three positions on the Association's board will be filled this year for three-year terms through 2011. They are At-Large seat, the Newspaper seat, and the Photographer seat.

The sign up sheet is posted at the White House and will remain there until 5 p.m. on June 6.

Please sign up if you are interested in running for the WHCA board and also if you are interested in running for president. You must be elected to a board seat to be eligible to be elected president. All regular members of the Association are eligible to run.

We hear that USA Today's David Jackson is running...

It is a big week as POTUS plants a tree and meets the pontiff.