MONDAY Sometime between youthful dreams of baseball fame and the adult accomplishment of becoming a published author, shit got downright peripatetic in the career of David Goodwillie. His varied occupational stopovers are documented in bursting detail in Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, which the author discusses at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m. 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW. TUESDAY Democratic operatives by the metric ton bought into his political linguistic theories when…

An Election Special As part of our Election coverage, Gothamist’s Ben Chappel interviewed Oscar Award winning filmmaker, Errol Morris, who has been working with MoveOn PAC on a number of video and paper advertisements in advance of next week’s elections. Morris’ “Fog of War” — a sobering and uncomfortable look at Vietnam War and Cold War philosophy through a blunt and eye-opening interview with Robert McNamara — captivated DCist. And with the upcoming opening of…