Below The Beltway

In today’s Washington Post is this article about how ubiquitous surveillance cameras have become in Great Britain. Consider this:
Britain has become the world’s premier surveillance society. There are more than 4 million unblinking electronic eyes gazing down on shoppers and travelers across the country (though far, far fewer human brains are dedicated to deciphering the [...]

……but things are never the same.
We are back from a short, fun, but still exhausting trip to New Jersey. It was the first trip Kellie and I made up there since the wedding and the first time I’ve back there since January. With the exception of a frustrating morning at the local bank trying to [...]

Dinner went very well. A few modifications to the recipe were in order, but all in all a success.
No blogging on this end until Sunday afternoon. We’re headed to New Jersey to visit my Dad and take care of matters still outstanding from my Mom’s estate. And we’re leaving at 5:30 tomorrow morning. Just perfect.
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Today must be the day for astronomy news. Large New World Discovered Beyond Neptune

This is a picture taken by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter showing frozen water on the floor of a crater at the Martian North Pole. Full details here.

Apparently, controlling our pocketbooks isn’t enough, our friends in D.C. want to control time as well.

Slate Magazine has an article about great wines you can drink in hot weather.
Kellie and I have been doing some research in this area lately and, so far, our favorite summer wine has been a Chardonny from Rappahannock Cellars here in Virginia.
More research is clearly called for.

In an article published a few days ago titled Learning From Lance, NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Thomas Friedman, who is usually sensible about these things, goes completely off the deep end. At one point in the column he asks:
Wouldn’t you think that if you were president, after you’d read the umpteenth story about premier U.S. [...]

I’ll be making this penne pasta recipe for Kellie tonight.

My buddy Raymond is apparently a fan of lawyer jokes.
Didn’t you know that some people consider lawyer jokes a form of hate speech ?