Daily Herald | Recession hits Sesame Street: Sesame Workshop announces layoffs – Layoffs on Sesame Street? This economy really is fraked.
Penguin Books Reveals New “Hitchhiker’s” Cover : Slice of SciFi – Eoin Colfer is writing the 6th book in the trilogy?

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The Caroline County Board of Supervisors voted 3–2 Tuesday night to increase the rates for water and sewer service on the county’s utility system.
For years, this system has failed to be self-sufficient, requiring last year approximately a $300,000 subsidy from the general fund. The general fund is, of course, from taxes that all citizens pay. […]

UPDATE: World economic collapse has China losing its appetite for America’s recyclable waste.  Story is posted to nytimes.com.
A fortnightly rant, FL-S style with a h/t to my green Twitter friends.
Despite the fact that:

our kids are walking, talking proponents of sustainability;
household recyclables are collected curbside;
the zeitgeist is becoming greener by the day;
the R-Board (our Regional Solid Waste […]

Here’s a great article in the New York Times about California Pinot Noir. It explores one of the fundamental divides in wine preferences: people who prefer wine with food and those who prefer it on its own. Those who prefer wine with food tend to like fresh, lively (ie higher acid) wines with some earthy flavors, and those who prefer wine on its own prefer fuller, fruitier wines (I’m talking about red wines mainly). The author, and myself, are in the former camp. To me never having wine with food is missing out on half of what makes wine fun and interesting.

It’s telling, too, that the Pinot producers who opt for the big, fruity style have to “play chemist”, as one winemaker once put it to me. If you pick the grapes when they are super-ripe the acidity is lower and much of the water has dried out, so you later have to add tartaric acid and water to the wine to make it palatable. In my view, if you have to mess with the wine to make it good you’re not making it the right way.

Incidentally, if you like your wines big and fruity, you should opt for a California Zinfandel or a Syrah, which naturally are able to achieve that style better than Pinot.

Bottom3: The American Idol Pick’em Game – Yep, it#039;s that time of year again.
Trying to Live on 500K in New York City – NYTimes.com – Yeah, I#039;m not feeling any sympathy for these folks.

Big, big news from the SCDC:
The SDC is pleased to announce that Congressman Gerry Connolly will deliver the keynote address at our First Annual Stafford JJ Dinner!  The FINAL deadline to purchase tickets is Wednesday, March 11, 2009.  A limited number of tickets remain; as such, we will make these tickets available while supplies last.
The Stafford […]

Fredericksburg City:

156 days on market – this is 19 days less than in February 2008
Sellers received, on average, 84.24% of their list price when the home sold
There is 13.08 months of inventory on the market
12 homes sold in February 2009 – this is 1 less than in February 2008
The most popular price range was $250,000-299,999 and $200,000. 
The average sold price was $188,775, compared to $307,362 in February 2008

Orange County

195 days on […]

I just became aware of a documentary about the battle in the marketplace between craft breweries and the established ‘macro’ breweries. It looks pretty interesting. It doesn’t look like it’s screening in this area but if you follow the link on the homepage to buy tickets it does appear to be screening in several movie theaters in Northern Virginia. You can watch the trailer at the website, www.beerwarsmovie.com.

If I get a chance to see it I’ll post a review here.

Wikileaks cracks NATO’s Master Narrative for Afghanistan – Wikileaks –