Beltway Traffic Jam

James Joyner | Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Still telecommuting, although I did make a sojourn into the office today.

The Tuesday linkage:

• David Pinto blogs Opening Day.

• Armed Liberal thinks electronic voting is stupid.
• Kevin Aylward chronicles Britney Spears and bikini clad simulated porn.
• Apparently, the Letter of the Day is “J.”
• Steve Bainbridge believes anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable bastion of bigotry.
• Julian Sanchez demonstrates that the service economy makes us happy.
• Stephen Green notes that negative ads work.
• Michael J. Totten has a new article in TCS.
• Dean Esmay wants to privatize Mars.
• Bill Quick reports that pink is now a gang color. No wonder they get into so many fights.
• Steven Taylor hates comment spam.

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Thanks for the link!

Posted by David Pinto | March 30, 2004 | 04:44 pm | Permalink

 

It's really quite shameless the way you guys are working it to increase your traffic (putting "Britney Spears" and "porn" in the same sentence is pretty transparent). :-P

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Beltway Traffic Jam

James Joyner | Monday, March 29, 2004

I’m telecommuting today, since I get far more work done with access to a computer than without. Plus, there’s surprisingly less traffic in my home office than along Route 7.

Still, the linkfest must go on:

• Laurence Simon makes some serious charges against Glenn Reynolds.

• Dodd Harris reflects on NFL rule changes–or the lack thereof.
• Will Baude offers glowing and dismissive assessments of Richard Posner in successive posts.
• John Cole has discovered media bias.
• Dave Wissig is curious why CNN is burying its own poll numbers.
• Juliette and Frank J play the race card.
• Venomous Kate has brought back the Letter of the Day. Sort of.
• Terry Oglesby discusses the expansion of the Axis of Weevil.

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Serious?
Me?

Posted by Laurence Simon | March 29, 2004 | 05:08 pm | Permalink

 

It's 10:24pm, and the poll results are still missing from CNN's website.

Posted by Dave Wissing | March 29, 2004 | 10:26 pm | Permalink

 

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James Joyner | Friday, March 26, 2004

I was able to get out of the office before the traffic hit, but it’s still an hour drive–for a trip that’s only 23 miles!–even under decent conditions from DISA from home.

The Friday linkfest:

• The Official Blog Chronicle of Celebrity Porn has been banned by PayPal as an adult site.

• Mark Hasty is upset that he failed to list an album I’ve never heard from a band I’ve never heard of among his favorites.
• Kate McMillan reports on nurses suing over SARS.
• Venomous Kate has a good post on rape shield laws.
• Stephen Green’s Friday recipe is a friggin’ salad with no booze.

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Welcome to my world. ;-)

Posted by jen | March 26, 2004 | 05:12 pm | Permalink

 

That sounds like my commute to (or from) my son's preschool that's all of 23.6 miles - but 65 minutes - away.

Posted by Venomous Kate | March 26, 2004 | 06:27 pm | Permalink

 

Of course you could leave at 6am as I do. That shaves 10-15 minutes off.

Posted by Kevin Aylward | March 26, 2004 | 06:46 pm | Permalink

 

Kate,

I heard they'd paved paradise and put in a parking lot. Apparently, it's true.

Posted by James Joyner | March 26, 2004 | 07:03 pm | Permalink

 

I feel you, James. For two years, I had a 45-mile, one-way commute, which in Los Angeles took an hour and a half -- and that wasn't even rush hour.

Thankfully, mercy fell upon me: I now live a block from work, so I have a five-minute walk.

Posted by Robert Tagorda | March 26, 2004 | 07:10 pm | Permalink

 

Dr J --

It appears to me that you need to "think outside the beltway"....er ... ah... box.

Now is the time to prove that you can work from Outside the Beltway most of the time and still meet Inside the Beltway paradigm expectations.

In the consulting business there are two groups -- this is an Inside the Beltway secret -- everyone knows about the Beltway Bandits... but there is also a small core of consultants with the reputation of "Highway Helpers"....

As long as your physical "internet access" is interrupted, you have opportunity to prove you operate to their satisfaction from virtual presence Outside the Beltway. After all isn't DoD's goal "virtual presence" instead of physical presence ... [ask OBL if he know what virtual presence means].

The future is now....

Posted by Delta Dave | March 26, 2004 | 08:34 pm | Permalink

 

Kevin: Interesting. I'm at DISA's complex in Skyline, right before 7 turns
into King.

Dave: Ye hath a point. Getting face time with the people there is
valuable, but being there every day doesn't make much sense.

Posted by James Joyner | March 26, 2004 | 08:53 pm | Permalink

 

James:

You don't remember "Something About You"? Try listening to it here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001FJW/qid=1080358282/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-8536297-4543145

I mean, that song was pretty big around 87ish.

Posted by Mark Hasty | March 26, 2004 | 10:32 pm | Permalink

 

Mark,

Ah, yes. I've heard that one. I don't recall having heard the name of the band before. Frankly, everything from 1985-1988 or so sounded the same to me: Pleasant but interchangable. That could have been Wham!, Wang Chung, Power Station. . . .

Posted by James Joyner | March 27, 2004 | 07:39 am | Permalink

 

James, every time I drive anywhere I feel like I'm once again proving that the shortest route between two points is, indeed, a straight line. Unfortunately, the one and only road going north-south on this side of the island follows the shoreline... making it anything but a straight trip.

Posted by Venomous Kate | March 27, 2004 | 05:06 pm | Permalink

 

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Beltway Traffic Jam

James Joyner | Thursday, March 25, 2004

Network access didn’t materialize, so the Traffic Jam is a bit late. As to the real-life traffic jam, I was fortunately able to escape the worst of it but, unfortunately, there’s no good way get from Ashburn to Bailey’s Crossroads unless you’re in a carpool, a motorbike, or a wind-up car.

The linkfest:

• King of Fools reports the discovery of Troy. Big deal–Steven Taylor and I found it in 1998.

• Steven has also found lots of Clarke linkage and rounded it all up.
• goldie is amused by her Blogarama entry.
• Laurence Simon wants your mug.
• Stephen Green has a headline I never thought I’d see. Actually, two.

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...I love it when you 'jam me, James.

*grin*

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James Joyner | Wednesday, March 24, 2004

The last of the OTB traffic jams written outside the Beltway for awhile. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be commuting to Bailey’s Crossroads and the Defense Information Services Agency (DISA). I’m still employed by the same contractor but on a new contract and will start drawing something approaching a living wage again. All stemming, incidentally, from my post a month ago that I was job hunting.

On with the linkage:

• Steven Taylor provides a terrorism timeline. It starts before January 2001.

• Megan McArdle is going to be on teevee Friday morning.
• Smash reports that the French defused a bomb rather than surrendering to it.
• Jay and Deb, merged in real life, have now done the same to their blogs.
• Jen is too lazy to make coffee. Personally, I’m lazy unless I make coffee.
• Mark Hasty has a recipe for jambalaya, Wisconsin style.

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James Joyner | Tuesday, March 23, 2004

The Tuesday linkfest:

• Robert Smith explains that he’s not a racist, he just wants the ni—–rs to get jobs, stop killing each other, and put down their crack pipes.

• Ted Hinchman has issued a retraction for his entire weblog.
• Will Baude discusses interesting ways to kill airline passengers.
• Steve Bainbridge demonstrates why people think professors don’t have real jobs.
• Dan Drezner gives his delayed take on the Clarke affair.
• King of Fools explains the Piano Lessons theory of economics.
• Juliette has more evidence that France is going down a different path than the US.

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Issues of taste aside, I think the point was more to a corrupt black "leadership" and the misguided followers of same.

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James Joyner | Monday, March 22, 2004

The Monday linkfest:

• Cam Edwards had his first bout with D.C. traffic this morning.

• Donnie Hall is skeptical of DU’s claim to being a think tank.
• Laurence Simon speculates as to whether Arafat is next and the implications for the Dead Pool.
• Steve Verdon takes issue with his least favorite Volohk Conspirator.
• Black Glenn ain’t too impressed with military recruiting commercials.
• Zygote is disillusioned to discover Walter Chronkite is a leftist shill.
• Eric Scheie thinks Kerry’s arrogance will cost him.

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Not much going on as of yet, but new stealth blogging efforts are now going on at Read My Lips as Gestapo Puritans have put a stop to any further Raggin' and Rantin'.

Posted by Tiger | March 22, 2004 | 08:17 pm | Permalink

 

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James Joyner | Friday, March 19, 2004

The last linkfest of the week:

• Joe Katzman reports on yet another “high value target.”

• Alex Knapp reports yet more corruption in Russia’s electoral system.
• Gary Manca finds a lesson for Iraq in Kosovo.
• Dodd Harris needs your captions by midnight tonight.
• Kevin Aylward is giving you until Sunday evening.
• Howard Bashman has found a way to say words that rhyme with “duck” and not incur the wrath of the FCC.
• Michele Catalano notes that Kerry forgot some things in his Iraq War anniversary speech.

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I was going to ask about the title...

Posted by Kevin Aylward | March 19, 2004 | 08:04 pm | Permalink

 

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James Joyner | Thursday, March 18, 2004

The daily linkfest:

• Steve Bainbridge has good and bad news for Bimmer lovers.

• Steven Taylor has the info on the new Bush ad.
• Carol Andrus has a long list of road hazards, which seems apropos.
• Donnie Hall ain’t none too impressed with Howard Dean.
• Kevin Aylward has a post on a new craze that may become the subject of an OTB Caption Contest.
• Dean Esmay is nonpartisan–just ask him.
• McQ has a good piece on the Islam-terrorism connection.

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Bimmer? I've always heard them called Beemers.

Posted by Boyd | March 18, 2004 | 06:32 pm | Permalink

 

That's his spelling--and Car and Driver's, too, for that matter. I think it's because the "i" is pronounced like "e" in the German alphabet.

a - ah
e - ay
i - ee
o - o
u - ooh

Posted by James Joyner | March 18, 2004 | 06:39 pm | Permalink

 

OTOH, we're not in Germany, are we? :big grin:

I can recall motorcycle magazines from 25 years ago referring to BMWs as "Beemers."

Posted by Boyd | March 18, 2004 | 09:17 pm | Permalink