- George Washington: certified badass.
- Hey, Mr. “Fully Loaded” isn’t the only guy who can customize his own Lincoln Navigator.
- Jon Fine profiles Dave McKenna: “McKenna’s decidedly uninterested in the public aspects of being a sportswriter, but his reach and influence at home is nonetheless such that TBD had to turn to me — someone without the slightest passing interest in either the Washington Redskins or pro football in general, someone who’s never met Dave McKenna, someone who’s never had an actual conversation with Dave McKenna, unless you count the extremely brief phone calls in which I failed to jolly him into discussing any aspect of this piece — to flesh out a profile of the guy and the singular niche he’s carved out for himself, because all of the usual and sorta-usual local suspects had some kind of personal tie to him.”
- Slate’s Richard Kahlenberg reviews the Michelle Rhee biography “The Bee Eater,” and explains “what Michelle Rhee’s fans don’t get about education reform.” Meanwhile, the Post editorial board asks the Washington Teachers’ Union how they plan on enforcing educator standards in the classroom.
- You don’t mess with the Historic Preservation Office, yo.
- Montgomery County police are investigating swastikas painted on walls outside the Washington Waldorf School in Bethesda.
- Thomas Nephew tackles the concept that Metro bag searches aren’t “really that bad.”
- We Love DC’s Dave Levy tells us what it’s like to try and run a forty-yard dash while wearing the 45-pound Nationals racing presidents costume.
- Protesters in Wisconsin and the world: bonding over pizza.
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