It’s nice when Wonk’d has at least one “famous-for-famous” sighting, not that we don’t love our 3rd string journalists and local politicians. This week there’s Robin Williams, whose hair plugs and recent mediocrity don’t really affect the fact that he is still an actual movie star. Others spotted this week are Wonkette favorites Tucker Carlson and Tim Russert, as well as much-reviled though oft-seen Bob Novak . You get these and the best High School economics teacher ever, after the jump.

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• “Rolling Hurricane Revue” tour heads to Mississippi and Louisiana to mark today’s one year anniversary of Katrina. Blame game still on, reconstruction in MS faring better than LA. [WP, NYT]

• Tropical Storm Ernesto is weak, but FEMA Director David Paulison’s “No More Fuckups” doctrine has an army of personnel in Florida. [CNN]
• Kofi Annan wants in on the cool kids “disaster touring club,” heads to southern Lebanon. [BBC, NYT]
• Bill Clinton in Africa visiting AIDS patients, finds warm reception: “George Bush has actually delivered more resources, but Clinton is ten times more popular in Africa.” [NYT]
• President Nursultan “The Friendly Kleptocrat” Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan to visit White House in September. [WP]
• Indiana Republican congressman Mike Pence no longer the “perfect conservative” as he tries for compromise on immigration issue. [NYT]
• Fenty vs. Cropp televised debate yesterday — no steel cage, just a really small table. [WP]

• It’s that time of year — you know, for corduroy pants, noticing you’re a 29-year-old virgin, and DC Architecture Week. [Metroblogging DC]

• Mayor Williams cheats on Linda Cropp with Caribbean Vacation, New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.[The DC Universe]
• Your day wasn’t as bad as you think. Unless you too went to Asylum’s birthday party, drank Sparks, touched a manhole. [I Am A Lefty]
• Blindfold yourself and get sexy on someone, advises local “breathing diamond.” In other words, read Casual Encounters and masturbate. [District Insider]
• “You know how I keep bitching about the $611,000,000+ the city is spending on a baseball stadium? This is why. Let me remind DC-lovers that the District considers a recreational activity more important than accounting for the deaths of the city’s most vulnerable.” (Most vulnerable because they are retarded. No, seriously.) [why.i.hate.dc.]

• Linda Cropp’s TV ads started today — “Judgement” and “Determined,” inspired by 7th Heaven episodes. [Cut DC Taxes]
• Blackberries seriously damaging to mental health. [The Conservative Futurist ]
• U r 2 cool 2 b sad. [Carrie Broadshoulders]
• Masturbation poll: 48 year old man. Q: At your cubicle / in your office? A: Yes, and often. [Craigslist]
• She can’t get any finer. “Perhaps you can provide us with a way to appropriately handle the most obscene thing I have witnessed recently. One of our co-workers showed up today covered in spandex. Yes, a spandex body suit.” [WP's Professional Refinement Chat]

• Linda Cropp debates Adrian Fenty next Monday at 4PM. News Channel 8. [Dcist]
• Mad DC Cabbie doesn’t smoke weed, is naturally high person. [Diary of A Mad DC Cabbie]
• me (1:37:19 PM): lol sweet
  me (1:37:26 PM): anyone dead yet?
  “VA Tech guy” (1:37:30 PM): 2 [Last Stop Surburbia]
• Taberna del Alabardero celebrates Flamenco festival with a special menu and Flamenco dancing. [Metrocurean]
• “Imagine “Chappelle Show” mixed with “Jackass” mixed with “Luke’s Peep Show” mixed with “In Living Color” mixed with “The Man Show” mixed with “Dr. Phil”. If you actually can envision that conglomeration of randomness, then you can imagine what I’m like when I’m out in public and I know people are watching.” [Listen To Leon]

• Washington reporters use the “indirect occupational status mack technique” because deep-inside, they hate themselves. [Brunch Bird]

• “DC’s mentality regarding the relationship between sex and status, perfectly encapsulated in a ten second exchange.” [The DC Universe]
• You’ve made parodies of it’s title for weeks now, you know you wanna see it - Snakes on Plane premieres tonight! [Metroblogging DC]
• Cropp and Fenty agree to debate, Post refers to it as a showdown - we bet no one shows up. [WaPo]

• World Cup affiliations as a touchstone for the pitfalls of inter-party dating, and some asshole that actually carries a ” George W. Bush Freedom Credit Card.” [LuLu Dates DC]

• At IRS headquarters any work employees do will not make them free. [City Mouse]
• DC voting-rights activists trudge on, undeterred by the knowledge that plans based on shaming Congress into action are 0-for-the history of time. [Wanderings In DC]
• Washington Times reporter bothers to show up for a DC Council meeting and gets tossed out for taking the last cranberry muffin. [DCist]

• It doesn’t take much to run for city council in DC, but you do have to show up. [DCDL]

• Home is where the heart is - unless the heart is in a shit hole that resembles Bushwick during the crack wars. [And I Am Not Lying, For Real]
• Luckily the champagne room in White House sub-basement number 69 has just been completed. [Hey Pretty]
• Linda Cropp decides the hiring of homeless people isn’t just for booze-crazed high school kids. [WTOP]

It’s so great to know that you tipsters are gaining in skill and guile when it comes to spotting celebs. Case and point: this photo of E.J. Dionne, blathering on about Bush’s approval rating in between slurps of Vietnamese satay pumpkin fusion soup.

Update: Several of you have identified Dionne’s lunchtime companion in this photo as former Clinton advisor William Galston, now at the Brookings Institution.

Regular Wonk’d stars George Stephanopoulos, Stephen Colbert, and Jenna Bush also make their appearances, as does Laura Bush. Of course, as in life there are always winners and losers in the game of Wonk’d. The loser of the week is John Kerry, who couldn’t win a presidential election, and now can’t even fix a traffic ticket. It’s good thing then that we’ve got Wonkette-poll-dominating Stormie Janzen — and tons more, after the jump.

This is the seat of power for the, uh, whole planet, and there are celebrities lurking everywhere. If you spot one, tell us by email, with “Wonk’d” or “Sighting” in the subject line (along with the name of the bold face you spotted). Spot and send, spot and send — many thanks!

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