by Laurel Wamsley

Columnist and talking head Robert Novak hit a pedestrian with his Corvette this morning in downtown Washington. The victim was a man in his 60s who was taken to George Washington Medical Center with minor injuries.

TMZ reports that Novak was listening to NPR's Morning Edition when he struck the pedestrian around 10 a.m. Presumably tuning to member station WAMU, Novak would have just heard the tale of a Chicago man seeking $30,000 in damages from a tattoo parlor that misspelled "tomorrow" when they inked his arm.

Call it a Drive-Off-The-Road Moment.