This one’s a keeper!

You know the state of things must be really dire when Fred2Blue finds itself in total agreement with the editorial board of the FL-S. 
In a scathing editorial in today’s edition, the FL-S places the blame for the transpo meltdown in Richmond squarely on the shoulders of the Republican majority in the Virginia House of Delegates.
From the editorial, there’s this:
However […]

DON’T BE fooled by the parliamentary razzle-dazzle and the gush of obfuscatory recrimination pouring forth from Richmond this week. The failure of Virginia’s lawmakers to provide the first new new source of funding in a generation for the state’s aging transportation network lies squarely with the Republican leadership in the House of Delegates.
And so begins […]

UPDATE from Dan:  What a kooky show, chock full of odd-ball dog owners.  Laurie and Andrew stuck out of the pack because the duo is, comparatively speaking, so…normal.  That may be why they were not featured as well as the other pairs, in last night’s series debut or in the doggie talent show (oh, I kid you […]

I don’t suppose we’ll see this parody of Margaret Wise Brown’s children’s literary classic, Goodnight Moon in the stacks at the Rappahannock Regional Library, any time soon…

…so, here’s a taste:
In the situation room
There was a toy world
And a flight costume
And a picture of –
A refinery plume
And there were war profiteers
giving three cheers
A nation great
A church […]

Via report in today’s WaPo:
A 23-year-old Woodbridge woman was killed by a lightning strike during a thunderstorm in Virginia Beach on Sunday afternoon, authorities said yesterday.
Stephanie Dawn Kirpes, of the 15000 block of Greenmount Drive, was jogging along the water’s edge in the Sandbridge area of the city when she was struck.
Kirpes graduated this […]

UPDATE by Dan:  On Monday, July 7, Pamela Gould of the FL-S reports that the I-95 crash shown below was in fact a fatality.
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There was a nasty accident at approximately 1:30 P.M. today on I-95 northbound in Quantico. My friend, Stuart Katz of Florham Park, N.J. was just a few cars behind this […]

…don’t bother.  They’re here!
A fortnightly rant, FL-S style…with a h/t each to “Big Eyes the Klown,” Stephen Sondheim, and the late Larry Harmon, once known to kiddies across the U.S. as “Bozo”.  Harmon died yesterday at the age of 83:
My best friend’s dad is a Klown.
No, really…
His dad is a Shriner Klown, you know, the folks who maniacally drive […]

Today at the White House, President George Bush addressed President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines, and said:

I Am Reminded Of The Great Talent Of The – Of Our Philippine-Americans When I Eat Dinner At The White House.”
Why does he always?

We had today what seemed like the seventh or eighth straight day of fierce afternoon weather. This afternoon’s storm has blown through, leaving these amazing cumulus-nimbus clouds behind in the eastern sky.
This shot was taken just before sundown. Enjoy the view!