This week in the Overheard offices, we were shocked and appalled. Are people being extra insensitive out there on the mean streets of D.C.? Aren’t we all fat and happy on Christmas cookies and eggnog, wading knee-deep in nostalgia after another viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas? Whatever it is that is inspiring heightened grinch-itude in Washington flared hot as a roasting chestnut this week, as we had submissions potentially offensive to various races, sexual…

Must-See-TV tonight, readers, so set your Tivo’s for “A Company of Soldiers,” a “Frontline” documentary which premieres on WETA and MPT at 10 p.m. The documentary offers an intimate and often moving look into the lives of the U.S. Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad, during the month of November 2004. According to the NY Times’ Alessandra Stanley tonight’s documentary does not presage peace or quagmire in Iraq…Instead, a complicated war is broken down…