Here she is, Mrs. Washington D.C.

Writing for Slate’s Human Guinea Pig, Emily Yoffe enters the Mrs. America contest. The two-part article is a real delight, and laugh-out-loud funny at times.

I said that maybe when the judges saw me in my suit, they would decide not to crown a Mrs. D.C. this year, the way the Nobel Peace Prize usually doesn’t get awarded during world wars.