Very nice.  h/t whitehouse.gov

I’m finishing up my morning coffee and contemplating the magnitude of the shoveling job ahead of me. It looks like we have 7-8″ of snow on the ground but it’s tough to tell given the drifting caused by the winds. According to radar the snow should sto…

Elected officials who start their own blog is not a new thing. Dels. Kris Amundson and Bob Brink have 7 West, Sen. Chap Petersen has Ox Road South, and former Congresswoman Leslie Byrne has Byrne-ing Up the Internet. That’s just off the top of my head.
But now we’ve got the opposite happening. A few months […]

As I’m writing this I’m watching a serious snowstorm get started here in northern Virginia, with totals forecast to be in the 5-10″ range depending on where one is located. As I’ve stated in earlier posts winter is most assuredly not my favorite seaso…

The above HPC graphic shows the 10% and 40% probability curves for at least 12 inches of snow for a wide swath of the eastern Mid-Atlantic. Suffice it to say that the probability curves for lesser amounts are almost off the chart. We haven’t had a Ma…

UNSOLD CARS AROUND THE WORLD – wow – that#039;s a lot of cars. makes you wonder why prices haven#039;t dropped more…

Follow-up to my previous post. From The Washington Post:
This year, there were echoes — distant perhaps — of Webster vs. Clay as delegates debated clotheslines. The energy-saving bill, sponsored by Sen. Linda T. “Toddy” Puller (D-Fairfax), would have prevented rule-happy homeowner associations from banning clotheslines.
Taking aim at the bill as if wielding a rug-beater, Del. […]

There is always some confusion in DUI and DWI cases about breath tests. In Virginia, just by driving you are deemed to have given your implied consent to take a breath test, but that breath test is the machine back at the police station.
Preliminary breath test at the scene
The police carry with them what they […]