New DC teacher salary plans unveiled and posted at DC Teacher Chic. In a note, this blogger points out that under one plan a teacher with five years experience can make over $100,000. Excerpt: The new salary scales are so dramatically more than the salary scales right now, or anywhere else in the country - it’s truly remarkable.

A Matter of Timing Chain. How far can you push the replacement? Red Nose

Why I hate being a truckdriver. That’s the title of a post about driving a SUV, and the writer at The Big Piece of Cake has many reasons to dislike it. She writes: I find that people are mean to me. Maybe they see my big truck and think that I have an aggressive personality to go with it. All I know is that I have the hardest time getting people to let me change lanes in traffic. It’s like they’re in their little economy car thinking, “Oh no you don’t, you big gas guzzling bully – you’re not cutting in front of me.”

Someone (Else) is Missing. The Washington Post has focused much attention on the Chandra Levy case with its 12-part series. But there are many other unsolved murders. The writer at The Republic of T has assembled an exhaustive post about this history.

One More Terrible Thing About Law School. Smash. It takes over the summer.

DC v. NY. Elizabeth Nolan Brown files a report with photos. She writes: I was feeling a little smug.

Love in aisle 9? Do you come here often. Sometimes you just have to settle for the Haagen-Dazs.

Things That Might Be Offensive If You Aren’t in IT The World According to Blondy. IT people rule your world, Internets, with their own special language.

Confessions of a Beer Blogger. Short bits of truth by DC Damsel.

Fans of Mad Men will enjoy this one: Ads Don’t Lie by Knee Deep In Mud.

Anonymi Fear Retribution. Members of the group “Anonymous” protest the Church of Scientology. Joe Tresh at the Washington Photo Journal.

Offlede gets photo of lightning bolt near Capitol Dome.

Avoiding The Paparazzi When You Have the World’s Cutest Baby.. Kings of the Road

Princess Carlotta. Adventures of an Urban Bunny. Rabbit Photo.

McCain supporter takes a sudden interest in Obama supporter. EvesdropDC

He was wearing a polo shirt, popped collar, expensive jeans, K-Swiss shoes and was asleep on the ground next to this writer’s Adams Morgan home, using his cellphone as a pillow. Written in Caps

A man takes a bath in an alleyway off on K Street. Saint in Exile - Life in Washington DC The post is titled: A man bathed is a dollar earned.

All crocs aren’t bad. Koinoia writes about her Nordstrom purchase in Pentagon City: I think I have become a bit of a trendsetter here in my new gray crocs.

Jack Jacobson, who is on the ANC in Dupont Circle, and keeps track of crime, says there have been hate/bias crimes in the past couple of weeks. His post needs more specifics.

Commissary DC, described as a Tryst-like restaurant, is evidently replacing the Merkado in Logan Circle. Usually Stephanie. Washington Post report here.

DC Starbucks apocalypse avoided. alternative hippopotamus. Only one Starbucks in DC is being closed. Full list from Starbucks (pdf here.)

1 - So much for DC’s reputation as a highly educated area. Our internship at the World Bank

2 - Five Things I’ve Learned About DC. InkTank, The Washington Journalism Center Blog

3 - Ended up running down 18th street and into a stranger’s car. dekaN dc

4 - The reasons (*cough*) people really live in DC.. why.i.hate.dc.

5 - One Killed, One Hurt on Nats Game Bus. JDLand

6 - Indignation and staffer smackdown. What Liz Said

7 - Unfolding series about the 2001 Chandra Levy case gets a cutting analysis. why.i.hate.dc.

8 - Wedding photo here. Liza and Gary’s DC Pizza Blog

9 - Tips for Screen on the Green. The Search for J Street

10 - As you start dating older guys. Lemon Gloria

Tips for Screen on the Green. A rant. How to survive the outdoor Mall movies. The Search for J Street

About a roommate who became a friend and the change ahead. Culinary Couture

The Town. The Penn. The Langston. The Highland. The Tivoli. Some of the names of DC’s old movie theaters. Undercover Black Man

After living in Ethiopia for a year-and-a-half, this writer compares the local version of the cuisine with the real thing. Written in Caps

There is a woman in Dupont Circle who gives tarot card readings, writes This Too Shall Pass. The tarot card reader is described: She has blue toe-nail polish. She smiles.

Lemon Gloria explains: Here’s what you will find, as you start dating older guys, or as you age along with your partner.

A note: The violence in the District is out of control. While the Washington Post extends its Chandra Levy murder investigation over a 12-part series, one of the more horrific crimes in the District was committed this week. It hasn’t received too much press attention. From two reports, the Post and ABC Seven: A man and a woman from Falls Church are in car near Howard University. Six men approach in what may have been an attempted vehicle hijacking. A gun is fired and the woman passenger, 47-year-old Barbara Carl, is killed. A life ends just like that. By pointing out Ms. Carl’s murder, I don’t mean to otherwise minimize the near daily slaughter of young men and women in the city. On the same day that Ms. Carl was attacked, Robert Mallory, 19, SE, was shot and killed. But at what point do we say that there’s either something seriously dysfunctional with the city’s response or we need to call in the National Guard to augment police? This is a city where the violence is so bad that vehicle checkpoints were recently put in one neighborhood, Trinidad. More relevant to this audience: Can a city of bloggers bring about change? After the shooting in Adams Morgan last week, I walked by the scene, looked at the blood on the sidewalk and watched people walk by, the rhythms of life seemingly intact. The newspapers deliver the facts; it’s the bloggers who have the power to humanize it before the violence is disassembled into the routine. There are thousands of blogging voices in the District, many with great gifts, insights and the ability to reshape the perspectives of their readers. But for all that we are trying to do as bloggers, we are not doing enough. — kob

The Washington Humane Society’s Blog reports on pets being surrendered due to the home mortgage/foreclosure crisis. I’m a Craig’s List Whore celebrates its 100th post. However, just a thought:  if you’re referring to one of your correspondents/potential dates as “douchebag”, that’s probably a good hint that you should stop corresponding, no?Stamps now celebrate Black Cinema, and D.C. Girl@the Movies thinks good thoughts about Josephine Baker and others and appreciates this commemoration.

On a less grateful and more snarky note: the reasons (*cough*) people really live in D.C., as hypothesized by why.i.hate.dc. And I’ll just mention MetroMan here, who writes a Metro-centric blog entitled iMetro. No specific post, but his entire body of work puts the Metro Riders Forums to shame.And back to the “things for which we should all be grateful” theme, let’s all say a little prayer that we do not experience the houseguest-bathroom karma described in Sean’s Ramblings.

Local blogger does a last-minute load of laundry but forgets to remove pet cat from washing machine. Cat decides to howl bloody murder rather than sing “Tiny Bubbles.” Film at 11:00. Link at Who Invented Roses.

As the evening lengthened, I kept noticing the dog. As friends gather to remember John MacDonald, an icon of the DC theater scene, a guest’s thoughts drift toward a golden retriever named Sandy. Armchair Actorvist.

DC Damsel accepts her demotion with bittersweet grace when her best friend finds love. Remember “Adventure Sundays.”

You haven’t lived until you see your own gravestone. Area teacher on a roadtripping summer break finds his moniker alongside the headstones of pirates-turned-farmers in North Carolina. Matt’s Blog.

Time warp into my mother’s youth. While driving solo through the upper Midwest, another roadtripping DC blogger meets up with some of her mother’s college friends. Storytelling ensues. Ah Bugger.

“So congratulations irritating Capitol Hill gopher. This is what your Harvard education has gotten you. Rule your coffee getting domain with an iron fist!” Indignation and staffer smackdown at What Liz Said.

Beach Bum at Heart is shopping for new karaoke spots after the closing of the Royal Lee in Arlington.

Personal trainer instructs client to “stop whining” and crushes him with giant ball. Sort of. Photo at Washington DC Personal Trainer.

The Washington Post’s unfolding series about the 2001 Chandra Levy case gets a cutting analysis by why.i.hate.dc. Its tone and point is summarized in her P.S.: I’m sure it couldn’t have been the Washington Post’s publicity/marketing/pr whatever team who already updated Ms. Levy’s Wikipedia entry with an external link to the series? Because … ew.

Liza and Gary of Liza and Gary’s DC Pizza Blog have tied the knot. Wedding photo here.

Local blogger Jason Linkins of the longtime blog The DCeiver, also writes for the Huffington Post, where he penned this piece: New Yorker Cover Falls Short Of Satire

Coincidence? On July 11, Seven Eleven gave away free slurpees, and it just so happened on that same day Metrorail set a new all time ridership record. Seven-Eleven Tops Reagan Funeral, writes Track Twenty Nine. Check out link in this post to Metro press released issued Monday for stats.

Tree boxes in Bloomingdale — a good thing? From these photos, apparently not. bloomingdale (for now)

This book recommendation may interest anyone who has children: a kid-oriented cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld called Deceptively Delicious. Pie Pants

If you live or work in Alexandria, there’s Aexandria eNews, a government information service that sends out alerts. Cold Kiwi

DC Blogger Meetup Wednesday at 7 p.m., Regional Food and Drink (RFD) 810 7th St. NW. Half a block from Gallery Place Chinatown Metro exit. Everyone is invited.

So much for DC’s reputation as a highly educated area. Our internship at the World Bank

Megan at the blog dekaN dc usually feels safe in the city, at least until Sunday morning “when I went to get some coffee from Tryst and ended up running down 18th street and into a stranger’s car after gun got shot about 20 feet from me.”

Five Things I’ve Learned About DC. And after just one month, too. Ink Tank. The Washington Journalism Center Blog.

DCist has a link to a forthcoming feature in Outside that ranks DC at the top of its “20 Best Towns in America.” (The story isn’t online yet; DCist has the link to a pdf version of it.)

One Killed, One Hurt on Nats Game Bus. Horrifying and unusual accident. JDLand

Behold The Famous 11th Street Chicken. Prince of Petworth. Photos.

In celebration of High School Humor Week. Princess Sparkle Pony’s Photo Blog

Follow this experiment. Nutgraf Will sunlight degrade a new type of plastic ring holders?

DC Blogger Meetup Wednesday — everyone is invited to these informal gatherings. July 16, 7 p.m., Regional Food and Drink (RFD) 810 7th St. NW. Half a block from Gallery Place Chinatown Metro exit. Meet your fellow bloggers.

The week’s reader favorites.

1 - Oh say can you see? Where’s My Cape

2 - Commuters who complain about the city of DC. The Anti DC

3 - Dear Chicago Word Pilferer. Not a Girl, Not Yet a Wino

4 - Whether meeting for a first date to play Guitar Hero is cheesy. Capitol Hill 20210

5 - Law abiding citizens need to be a bit more brazen. Off Seventh

6 - Sale Gone Terribly, Terribly Wrong on Craigslist. Mr. T in DC

7 -Pits suburban drivers—often, perhaps, drivers of Suburbans— against the city. Greater Greater Washington

8 - Dupont Tequila Opening in the Fall. Liton Events

9 - Tired of no answers. Hello Negro

10 - A thumbs down to The Awakening’s new home. Intangible Arts