Late last week came the news that editors at the Washington Post had discontinued Dan Froomkin's popular White House Watch Web-only column after a five-and-a-half-year run.

This wasn't just another media-personnel story for the trade publications. The act of a powerful news organization cutting off the head of a Bush-bashing media figure gave the Internet free license to indulge in Idiot Time.

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Good morning, City Desk readers, and welcome to another edition of Freedom Friday. We're wrapping up our Summer Music Guide as I type, and I can assure you that it's going to be a doozie--the kind of doozie you'll likely keep on your coffee table from May 15 through September 1 as a quick reference to the summer's most notable shows, from Baltimore to Richmond and everywhere in between.

William Saletan vs. John McWhorter and Stephen Colbert vs. Byron York, after the jump.

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Even the thought of watching a video wherein two pundits dissect the Judd Gregg incident makes me want to punch myself repeatedly in the throat, but the freeze shot of Andrew Sullivan's shirt in this Atlantic video was too compelling.

There's so much wrong here. I've seen Sullivan a few times around Adams Morgan, and while his taste in shirts has never been stellar (I'm thinking specifically of his "Interstate 420" T-shirt), I've never seen anything this problematic on the famous blogger.

The trouble areas are as follows:

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