The Washington Post’s gossip column “Reliable Source” presents the craziest, wackiest local stories of 2006.  What a delicious year-in-review list columnists Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts serve up:

• Dick Cheney’s openly gay daughter Mary announces she’s pregnant and plans to raise the child with her longtime partner.
• Allen Iverson’s bad day in D.C.: His Rolls Royce gets ticketed downtown while he was being deposed by a guy who claims the baller’s security beat him up in a nightclub.
• Hilary Duff calls boyfriend Joel Madden’s hometown of Waldorf, Md., “ghetto”; later fires D.C. drummer Shauney Baby for stealing her spotlight.
• Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney attacks a Capitol Hill police officer with her cellphone when he fails to recognize her with a new hairdo.
• Jenna, Jenna, Jenna!: The blonde First Twin is psyched out by a fake proposal from her boyfriend; ditches her D.C. school teaching job for a Panama internship; parties in Argentina; and gets falsely linked in the tabs to a Buenos Aires hottie.
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes cut a swath through D.C. — do the hokey pokey at Six Flags with Dan Snyder and party on the Fed Ex Field; later return the favor by inviting the Skins owner to their Italian wedding.
• Karl Rove and Madeleine Albright have a historic face off in court — when they end up on the same jury.
• Entourages collide, and bottles of bub go flying, when Diddy brings a posse of 40 to downtown club Lima.
• Dozens of reporters chase Borat through the streets of Washington as he takes his guerilla press conference from the beleaguered embassy of Kazakhstan to the White House.
• Rapper DMX claims a Maryland woman who bore his child “raped” him after a night of drinking; she sues him for defamation.
• In an astonishing couture coincidence, Laura Bush shows up to the Kennedy Center Honors wearing the same dress as three other women.
• Jessica Simpson forgets the words to “9 to 5″ and breaks down onstage at the Kennedy Center during her tribute to Dolly Parton.
• K-Fed steps into a wrestling ring in D.C. to tell the world: “My name is not K-Fed!”

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