Below The Beltway

If the Blogfather himself is talking about it, then it would be incredibly remiss if mention was not made of the fact that 2006 is the 60th anniversary of the bikini.
The swimsuit industry should have had Brian Hyland on retainer.
When, as a teenage pop singer in the 1960s, he warbled about an Itsy-Bitsy Teenie-Weenie Yellow [...]

I mean green isn’t even my favorite color:

Your Blog Should Be Green

Your blog is smart and thoughtful - not a lot of fluff.
You enjoy a good discussion, especially if it involves picking apart ideas.
However, you tend to get easily annoyed by any thoughtless comments in your blog.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?
H/T: Eric’s [...]

I am:
Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.

Which science fiction writer are you?
Robert Heinlein has long been my favorite Science Fiction author, so this please me greatly.

Another Friday and another great recipe is up at Vodkapundit, this time for Chicken Parmigiana. I particularly like this part of the instructions:
Oh, and that Chianti you opened just to get a tablespoon? Pour a glass, have a sip, and serve dinner already.

And all hell breaks loose apparently.
On Saturday, there was the terrorist attack on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. This is the second time in less than a year that this tourist area has been attacked like this. The motivation of the attackers is obvious — to drive away tourism and weaken the government of Egypt.
At nearly the [...]

Well, all the fears about yesterday’s shutdown of a portion of the Beltway were apparently unfoudned. Kellie and I were driving North on I-95 last night just before the area where the detour began and there was no noticeable effect on traffic. Even better, it turns out that the project finished a day ahead of [...]

Living in Northern Virginia like we do, one is confronted on a daily basis with a real estate market that is, in a word, unbelievable. More than once, I’ve seen homes in our neighborhood go on the market one day and be under contract the next, if not sooner…..and these are townhouses.
Everyone seems to think [...]

Without a doubt, the biggest story here in the D.C. area this summer will be the fight over whoever it is that President Bush nominates to the Supreme Court. The SCOTUS Nomination Blog has been on this story since O’Connor announced her resignation and will no doubt remain an essential source for anyone interested in [...]

Still recovering from a late night last night. Instead of going out to see fireworks like we had talked about, my wife and I spent the evening on the deck of a neighbor watching the local county fireworks. It was a great night and fun to meet a another neighbor, but I’m not as young [...]