Good morning City Desk readers, and welcome to an especially vapid installment of Freedom Friday. A few weeks back, yours truly ran into a friend of a friend while picking up some necessities at the CVS on 14th St. in Columbia Heights. Said friend was printing out headshots for his Real World tryout. Yet at the time, there were no Real World employees in D.C. That's changing, according to the dashing reality TV reporter Andy Dehnart, who has discovered that "Bunim-Murray [the production company behind the real world] is searching for multiple production assistants who 'have a valid drivers license and insurance' and 'live in and know DC and surrounding areas.'" Twitter your feelings on the news and tag them (your feelings!) #realworlddc. Got more to say about the Real Housewives of D.C.? Tag that shit #realhousewivesdc.

Military politics, insular media rambling, and medical marijuana, after the jump.

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For those of you who missed this morning's post about the debacle at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, here's a recap: Jennifer Palmieri, CAPAF CEO wrote what is now being called a guest post on Matt Yglesias' blog, clarifying CAP's position on the think tank Third Way, which Yglesias criticized on his blog last week.

After everyone and his second cousin took Palmieri and CAP to task for censurship, Yglesias and Thinkprogress' Faiz Shakir finally responded, dismissing the criticism.

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Matt Yglesias, wonky wunderkind, ardent liberal, and self-proclaimed expert on everything, pissed off his bosses at the Center for American Progress by bashing the think tank Third Way on his blog:

Third Way is a neat organization — I used to work across the hall from them. And they do a lot of clever messaging stuff that a lot of candidates find very useful. But their domestic policy agenda is hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit. There are a variety of issues that they have nothing whatsoever to say on, and what policy ideas they do have are laughable in comparison to the scale of the problems they allegedly address. Which is fine, because Third Way isn’t really a “public policy think tank” at all, it’s a messaging and political tactics outfit.

How do we know his bosses were upset? Because CAPAF CEO Jennifer Palmieri took over Yglesias' blog in the dead of night to post this disclaimer:

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