>> Don’t forget: thousands of dirty hippies and the gun-toting maniacs who hate them are getting together for a big ol’ hootenanny down on the National Mall tomorrow morning. It’s the War on War on War.

>> At the Washington City Paper, editorial assistants who make mistakes aren’t just named, they’re taken out back and tortured with one million paper cuts using the latest issue while Erik Wemple screams “you’re not good enough to work for me!” over and over and over again and the entire copy desk forces them to read aloud from The Elements of Style until they cry. [City Desk]

>> A D.C. court judge has ruled that an August vote by members of Shiloh Baptist Church who have sought to remove their pastor, Rev. Charles Wallace Smith, from power was invalid. [WaPo]

>> “Individual home owners have been forced to put up plastic bags on their fences in the hopes that people will put their garbage in the bag instead of on the street.” [Prince of Petworth]

>> Senate Democrats could be on their way to a working majority in 2008. [LA Times]

>> People who talk on cell phones in their car complain they hadn’t been told enough times that it’s against the law, but really they were just too busy talking on their phones to notice. [Examiner]

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