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Bar: Open! Beer and wine only.

Scene: Youngish, professionalish, hard to peg. Few neckties on the men but few ponytails either. Chatter about organizing a counter-protest against a protest against a biotech conference in Chicago.

Highlight: Free, high-quality T-shirts with provocative hipster-libertarian slogans -- "Capitalists of the World Unite!" "Freedom -- My Anti-Gov"; also one with Che Guevara wearing Mickey Mouse ears.

Overheard: "I don't actually know what the Che one means -- but it's funny!"

Disappointment: No one offered us any victimless crime weed.

Readers Tell Us

This week we wrote about the Nationals' opening day, with the down-to-the- wire race for an owner and fans booing Dick Cheney's in-the-dirt first pitch. Though we noted we could find no sign of the Lerner family at the game, despite their front-runner status as bidders for the team, some sharper-eyed readers pointed out that Ted Lerner's daughter Debra Cohen was there with husband Ed . And we got a lot of fastballs from readers who thought jeering the vice president was wrong. Or not.

"When you boo the Vice President throwing out a ceremonial first pitch, you aren't booing Dick Cheney, you are booing the office," wrote an Alexandrian who called the response "tacky." Nonsense, said another reader: "Enough of this pseudo fake Southern politeness." Others suggested that deafening silence would have made the point.

And one opinion of the pitch itself: "I guess the veep throws about as well as he shoots." Wind up and throw us a tip at reliablesource@washpost.com.