* Phil Gailey, Marueen Dowd, Mark Shields, David Broder and Brian McGrory talk about The Best of Mary McGrory at Politics & Prose. Free at 7PM, followed by tequila shots and oil wrestling. [P&P]

* Working Assets co-founder Peter Barnes has a way with metaphor: "It's time to 'upgrade' capitalism by reclaiming the commons. Barnes shows that the market, like a computer, is run by an operating system, one that inherently gives the 'right of way' to profit-maximizing corporations who redistribute their profits to only a sliver of the population." Learn more at Busboys & Poets, where he'll discuss his book Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. Free at 6:30PM. [DC Independent Media Center]