>> Don’t forget: thousands of dirty hippies and the gun-toting maniacs who hate them are getting together for a big ol’ hootenanny down on the National Mall tomorrow morning. It’s the War on War on War. >> At the Washington City Paper, editorial assistants who make mistakes aren’t just named, they’re taken out back and tortured with one million paper cuts using the latest issue while Erik Wemple screams “you’re not good enough to…

Senate Democrats and liberal activists have quite a task before them — they are charged with picking through Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ judicial record with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to find something damning enough to derail the nomination and hand President George W. Bush a defeat. But according to the Post’s Metro columnist Marc Fisher, the solution to the riddle of Roberts’ ideology and judicial temperment may well lay somewhere outside the realm of…

Official Washington can be filled with moments of official awkwardness. And this past week was filled with multiple instances of slips of the tongue, or at least Ciceronian rhetoric that could have been crafted and executed in a slightly better fashion. Starting with another pitched confirmation battle, President Bush’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, the sartorially impaired diplomatic guru John Bolton (left), faced some intense scrutiny from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The…