Virginia Right!

I was inspired by this comment in a New York Post article about the absurd idea that the funding of opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque should be investigated: She [Pelosi] famously discounted the Tea Party as an “astroturf” movement, directed by the Republican Party. She couldn’t process the idea of a genuine grass-roots revolt [...]

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Ah, Metro my darling, I remember ye when you were shiny and new.  As a very young man freshly moved to the DC area in 1977 the Metro was quite a sight.  Clean, fast, efficient and inexpensive.   It looked like something from a sci-fi movie to me.  I used it daily to commute back and forth to school at George Washington University. Last February I had the occasion to revisit the long lost love of my youth, having escaped D.C. Gomorrah some 20 years ago.  I was in DC for the big CPAC convention and was to meet…

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