Kennedy, the one-time MTV host who now works for Reason, grilled Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) on his comments earlier this month about Asian-owned businesses he called “dirty shops.”

Many of you are probably watching the television coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s funeral, where five four living Presidents have joined Kennedy’s family, friends, colleagues and staff to say goodbye to the Lion of the Senate before a grateful nation. Here in Washington, residents and mourners are preparing for the arrival of the Kennedy funeral procession — which will stop at the Capitol to honor Kennedy’s legacy before taking him to his final…