Welcome back to the weekly word for those of us who are just too involved with having a social life to read through comments on every single DCist post. There were a lot of really good conversations going on out there in the DCist universe the past few days, and we’ll get to them after the jump.

There are a lot of times where it’s obvious to us that the commentary that we get is either 100 percent vitriolic or 100 percent whimsical. But there are certain moments when the comments hit that really sweet spot, right in the warm underbelly of conversation.

This week’s Comment of the Week is a fine example of such: Monkeyrotica outlining an eight point plan for District voting rights:

1. Let District residents select a State in which their vote will count. Overseas military vote via absentee ballot all the time. Most will pick MD or VA but you pick whatever state you want and for tax/voting purposes you will officially be “a MD/VA/whatever citizen residing in DC.” This effectively disperses the DC voting bloc among the States, so Congressional balance is maintained, and you won’t get any argument from MD/VA.

2. Your Federal income taxes now go to the State you select for voting purposes.

3. Barring 1 and 2, retrocede to Virginia. (HA! Didn’t see that coming, did you?) Barring that,

4. Work with Northern Virginia towards mutual secession and formation of the State of NoVADC. (There goes the region’s economic engine.) If that doesn’t work,

5. Annex the Sudetenland (worked before). Still not good enough?

6. Join forces with the droid separatist army under the command of General Grievous.

7. ?

8. PROFIT!

See, you can reference Star Wars, World War II, District retrocession, and regional economics – and still make a valid observation. So don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, OK?

After the jump: Guns. Protests. Oh, and murderous (but, as of yet, unshaved) pandas. I guess we’re lucky to be alive.

Photo by jim_darling.