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• George Lucas says Barack Obama is a Jedi. Aren’t Jedi forbidden from ruling others or acting for personal gain? Or, is there any conceivable reason why anyone should care about what George Lucas thinks about anything? [Yeas and Nays]
• Virginia is set to execute another death row inmate tonight: convicted murdere Robert Stacy Yarbrough is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. [WaPo]
• The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicked off today. Today through Sunday and then again the following Wed.-Sun., you can experience the Smithsonian version of the cultures of Bhutan, Texas, and, oddly, NASA. Doesn’t look like there’s any astronaut ice cream on the menu.
• WMATA is considering settling the lawsuit brough against them by Monument Realty over the transit authority’s decision to sell its 2.2-acre Southeast bus garage to Akridge for $69 million. [Washington Business Journal]
• Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry is calling for EPA testing of DCPS athletic fields over concern that toxic silica sand has been used in them. [D.C. Wire]
• A third-grade teacher at private Beauvoir Elementary School was kicked off campus after accusations that he had inappropriate photos of young boys on a camera. [NBC4]