Political Gossip? Watch this Space for Dishing by Politics Daily's Emily Miller

The uppity women who sum up who's up at new-in-town political webzine Politics Daily had their first meat world gathering just outside of DC this weekend. The mid-Atlantic chapter of WomanUp contributors who blog at the platform "where big girl panties are always a fit" met for a so-called tete a tete tea (psst, those tea cups contained more than darjeeling) Sunday nite while the group's signature fan fave TV show Mad Men recorded on distant TIVOs for discussion later in the week.

More expansive than simply "Politics" and more frequent than merely "Daily," the edgy Internet broadsheet is AOL's answer to newspaper writers and readers who have made the leap from print to digital. The girl group's Supremes leader, PD editor-in-chief Melinda Henneberger, was there to represent, as well as former New York Times editor Jan Battaile, who postponed retirement to caress copy at the growing online mag.

White House reporter Lynn Sweet had to leave early to catch the limo for her TV appearance, missing by moments late-arriving Colorado editor Mary Winter, the evening's headliner. Not to worry, there was plenty of sultry glamour and heat at the event, with Ria Misra, Helena Andrews, and Emily Miller again proving that women are brainy and beautiful. (Andrews' book 'Bitch is the New Black' is due out next year and the title has been picked up by Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes for a feature film. Andrews will write the screenplay. )

Cookbook author Domenica Marchetti had samples of her show-stopping sea salt and rosemary sweet potato chips that had sold out at Dupont Circle farmers market earlier in the day and novelist Michelle Brafman contributed homemade pumpkin bread that nearly stole the show from guest Chef Sam Adkins (Adkins until recently ran the kitchen, menu and palate of suburban Silver Spring comfort food destination, Jackie's).

Shop talk among the professional bloggers centered on the comments appended to our posts, the quirkiness of blogsmith software ver. 3.0, and why all clicks are not equal. In the short six months since it launched, the sisterly site profile percolating below the scroll has developed a distinctive woman's shape tucked into PD's rib cage.

Economics writer Joann Weiner, who combed her hair for the event, brought a colorful tureen filled with her classic Peg Bracken stew. Befitting the alchemy of women and politics cooked in the same stew, the magazine is currently developing a gossip silo under Miller's familiar byline (tentatively bloghedded Emily's Post). (Tips and juicy secrets can be emailed to this address or to her directly.)

Misra wondered aloud when the no-boundaries lady column would broadcast video and, displaying web-like instant gratification, Henneberger confirmed that a plan for weekly Woman UP broadcasts is in the works. Insiders are already watching for audio links to Mary C. Curtis's day gig on public radio to show up on the blog's Twitter and Facebook pages.

The girly gathering went on until long after dark. Lacking a requisite second X chromosome, PD fiction contributor James Grady, host Bonnie Goldstein's husband, was banished to the upper rooms.