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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Last Friday, Dave Sessions at Patrol reviewed the various conservative websites that began publishing in 2008 and early '09. He references only Culture 11 and Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood, but I got the impression that he was speaking to anti-left media everywhere. His thesis (buried in the second graf just below a stinging mockery of the RNC's tactics for building a youthful online base) is this: "Why are conservatives so clueless when it comes to letting anything flow from their actual love of the medium?"

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