Below The Beltway

Kellie and I went downtown for dinner tonight, and on the way back home, I was able to use the cell phone camera to capture this beautiful sight

We drove home to Virginia, the long way, and watched the sunset

I wrote earlier today about a Washington Post article about the rising number of foreclosures in the D.C. Metropolitan area. Along those same lines, Tim Cavanaugh writes in the July issue of Reason Magazine about the current focus on so-called predatory lending and its connection to the state of the real estate market.
As Tim points […]

It’s becoming a familiar story, but the Post reports this morning on the rise of real estate foreclosures in the Northern Virginia area:
Home repossessions are cropping up almost everywhere in the region, regularly occurring on suburban streets unaccustomed to hard times. In Montgomery County, the foreclosure rate has tripled in a year. In Fairfax County, […]

Apple and AT&T stores across the country were busy last night as Apple’s much-hyped iPhone went on sale for the first time:
Stephen Easley was the first person to emerge from the Apple Store in Clarendon, and a dozen television cameras trained on his new iPhone.
In his haste, he ripped open the package, and the […]

Children’s television in the world of terrorists:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday.
In the final skit, “Farfour” was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At […]

The first in what I think might just become a tradition.
Tonight, it’s Diana Krall.
Not only pleasing to look at but pleasing to listen to. And an amazing talent.

This is an entirely self-indulgent post, but I grew up in the New York Metropolitan areas in the 1970s and 80s and one of the most well-known local media personalities was a guy named Joel Siegel who reviewed movies for the local ABC affiliate. He was acerbic and sometimes mean, but when you’re a kid, […]

Not Larry Sabato seems to think there’s something wrong with how much Delegate Dave Albo, who is also an attorney, charges for a DUI defense.
Albo, of course, is the chief architect of the abuser fees that go into effect on Sunday, but I don’t see the connection.
DUI is a serious crime. It’s a Class 1 […]

Someone took the recording of Frank Sinatra’s There Used To Be A Ballpark and set it to scenes of baseball stadiums that are no more: