But only GW students can attend.

“My guest tonight is my archenemies, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.”

The Colbert Report has been blissfully, if not nearly at full speed without its striking writers, back for a little more than a week now on Comedy Central. For three nights straight they’ve been running a series showing Stephen traipsing all over Washington with a portrait of himself strapped to his back, trying to convince one of the Smithsonian museums to actually hang it up. Without dwelling on how we managed to miss out…

MONDAY The perniciousness of apartheid, as well as its utter inanity, is well distilled in the person of Sandra Laing. While born to white parents, her darker complexion caused authorities to classify her as black at age nine, then white again at age eleven. For people too casually comfortable with discrimination, Judith Stone’s account of Laing’s life, When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race [in South Africa], is a…

Can you stand all the excitement that comes along with sifting through so many election results, race by race, this morning Washington? For political junkies like us, and we’re sure, like many of you, last night was an up way past our bedtimes, whiskey-infused, edge of our seats, shouting about the relative quality of cable news commentators’ hair dye jobs kind of time. And it’s not totally over yet. But before we get to the…

Here at DCist, we’re all big fans of the Colbert Report (and pretty much any and everything else the great Jon Stewart ever had a hand in). That’s why we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put a few folks On Notice when we came across shipbrook.com’s On Notice Board Generator. In the grand tradition of The Colbert Report, if anyone we’ve put On Notice comes by our offices* within the next 60 days,…