When scholars of the future — otherwise known as “Roombas” — look back at our chaotic and moronic first decade of the 21st Century, they will have nothing but faded printouts of vulgar old web pages for source material. “Why were there so many pictures of Truck Nutz and watermelon gardens around the Executive Mansion?”, the Roombas will ask each other, in robotic voices.

The Kennedy Center held its 30th Honors gala last night, and thankfully we didn’t have to sit through it. Among the honorees were Brian Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Diana Ross, Steve Martin and Leon Fleisher, who all must have been thrilled to see George W. and the Lady Bush attending. And the event organizers really spared no expense in celebrating Brian Wilson’s incomprehensibly brilliant career: Hootie and the Blowfish performed a medley of his Beach Boys work for him. So it sounds like it was a fun time at the Kennedy Center Honors last night. [WP]