LED Stop Lights Fail in Winter Weather

I just love it when the Greenies think they are saving the planet only to make things worse.  How much time, money, and gasoline do you think was burnt up sending those boom trucks around to clean off these lights one by one by one...the reporter tries to make the lights sound good at the end by saying that they save electricity, but that money went right back out the window in extra expense to keep them snow free...check the link for some laughs...

LED Stop Lights Fail in Winter Weather

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The Ugly Face of Student Resistance by David French

This is an article by an Alliance Defense Fund litigator I met during my fellowship this past summer. Great piece on this generation of college students and how we ought to be worried. I encourage you to read the article linked below. Additionally, if you want more follow up on this topic, check out the book,

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30), by Mark Bauerlein.

The Ugly Face of Student Resistance by David French on National Review Online

More Metro Madness

Another sampling of annoyances from the daily commute:

1: Why is it that the escalators at the various metro stations are always broken? I mean seriously I know that a massive amount of traffic goes through the metro each day, but why is it that multiple escalators are out at every single station every single day?

2: The person who holds on to two different bars and takes up space that other people could use like the guy in the photo below.

3: The guy who takes up two seats because he feels the need to put his bag down on the seat next to him. Apparently he's too good to share or sit next to someone else.

4: The guy talking so loudly on the cell phone that everyone on the train knows about his tryst from the night before. Really bro, no one on the train cares how hot the drunk girl you took home was, well except maybe the cop sitting two seats back.

5: The luggage people. I know the metro goes to the airport and the Amtrak station, but seriously people if you have multiple suitcases, take a cab. You are slow and in the way and a nuisance to all those other people trying to get to their destination.

6: The herky jerky. What is it about the train drivers that they can't figure out the gas from the break? You are more likely to get whiplash from the metro ride in this town than from getting rear ended in a car accident. When the train comes to a stop at the station and people are queuing up at the door to exit the guy hits the gas again and everyone goes sprawling on top of one another. Or on the take off from the station they hit the gas to go and then immediately hits the brakes jerking everyone around.

So there you finally have the full dozen. Six last time and six this time. The top 12 daily annoyances from the DC Metro commute.

Bobby Leaves ERLC

One last look at Bobby as he leaves the ERLC for the last time. Sorry you've got to go back to North Carolina buddy, we're going to miss you.

Random Shot from the Metro Ride

Check out the advertisement I snapped a photo of in the metro station...is this the message we want to be sending?

Random Musings From the Morning Metro Ride

Ok, so this post will be less on substance and more on ranting, so please accept my apologies in advance.

Things that annoyed me on today's ride to work:

1: Tourists trying to teach their young (say 5 years old maybe) children how to work the ticket in the metro line to get into and out of the station and holding up a whole line of commuters trying to get to work. Seriously people there is a time and place for that and it's when your kids are older and not during rush hour.

2: Tourists who don't know if you are on the left side of the escalator you are supposed to be walking. There are unwritten common courtesy rules to the metro system and one of them is you don't stand on the left. People are in a hurry and have places to be, move or get out the way as the rapper Ludacris would say.

3: The people on the metro who sit in their seats when there is clearly an elderly person standing. This one shouldn't even be metro specific, have some common decency and respect for your elders.

4: Women in so called suits with shorts as the bottom. I'm calling BS on this fashion trend, there is no way this should be deemed professional. If I have to get suited up in a monkey suit, then there is no way women should get away with wearing shorts because they have a jacket up top. This is not Bermuda or the tropics. If and when I ever get to management level again, this will be a strict no no in my office.

5: The guy with huge backpack on that is basically taking up two standing spots on the metro because he can't take his bag off and hold it like everyone else. Seriously dude, that thing is bumping into people and taking up space that another commuter could be standing in. I guess you don't care about anyone else but yourself and your precious backpack. By the way: no one in a suit should ever be wearing a backpack that an 8th grader would take to school. See # 4 above, not allowed, get yourself a real grownup professional bag.

6: The guy who is jamming his Ipod so loud that everyone on the train can hear what he's listening to. First of all, you are going to go deaf, believe me, I know of what I speak. Second, no one cares what you are listening to and frankly your death metal music is an intrusion on my morning ride. Please turn the volume down.

So there you have it, an easy half dozen things that bugged me this morning on the way to work. Now, time to choose my attitude, get geared up for the day, and be productive. Look for more substantive posts to come later tonight perhaps.