MONDAY: Atlantic Monthly correspondent Robert D. Kaplan will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts. According to Kaplan, journalists are too quick to report on the negative aspects of the military. Commence with bickering over the Iraq war … now. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Blogger Diane Vadino will be at Olsson’s in Dupont Circle to read from her first novel, Smart Girls Like Me. 7 p.m. She’ll also…

WOODLEY PARK, D.C. — This DCist is going to Wallyworld, no matter what! We’re going to go pick up Aunt Edna and retrace the Griswold family’s 1983 cross-country roadtrip. Since there isn’t a real Wallyworld (actually there is online … via a Google search, there is a “Wally” World, but it is NOT safe for work), we guess we’ll have to settle for where ever the open road takes us. Living and working inside the…

FRIDAY: >> The Sixpoints Music Festival, which highlights good local music played at good local venues, continues this weekend. Make sure to check out the schedule here and support your local music scene. >> Ross Douthat, blogger extraordinaire and reporter at The Atlantic Monthly, managed to pull a pretty nifty trick: he attended Harvard, reaped the rewards of the degree, and then got a hefty advance to write “Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the…