Good morning, Washington. As you make your way into work on this fine morning, a note to fans of Canadian super group Stars: “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead”? Good song. “Set Yourself on Fire”? Good song. Setting your ex-lover on fire? Apparently not cool.

Attack of the Dubyas: Washington Post Radio (WTWP) is shifting to a “personality driven talk format.” And whose personalities (I hear you cry) will be driven into us courtesy of the once-anodyne 107.7 FM/1500 AM? Why, such “established national personalities” as ” Neal Boortz, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Stephanie Miller.” Lest they be accused of excessive subtlety, the new callsign is W-W-W-T. All the information you need here.

Local Boy Makes… Oh, Wait: Fredericksburg’s own Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, the lone officer charged in connection with the abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib, has been sentenced to a stern… reprimand. The former head of the prison’s Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center had faced an array of charges, but the slap on the wrist that now marks him for life is for failure to follow orders. The moral of the story being… actually, just take the moral of the story from the Nuremberg Trials and flip it.

I’m Shocked, Shocked!: The Examiner reports that the District has fed almost $4 million since 2004 to a “special education residential facility” that specializes in Marvin Monroe–style electroshock discipline. The innovative premise, as revealed in a recent issue of Mother Jones, is that if you take autistic and retarded children and routinely electrocute them, maybe they’ll stop being so retarded. Hey, if it’s good enough for Jack Nicholson, it’s good enough for our kids, right?

Briefly Noted: P Street blocked by early morning fire … District sues mortgage company from PG County … FAA reduces restricted airspace around Washington.

This Day in DCist: Last year we spent some time with hardworking local musician Benjy Ferree and the year before that we welcomed Daily Candy to town.

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