Police state

Seeing what's happening back in DC with security around my office, I'm kind of glad to be here. Not that I would be afraid to be in DC, or that I don't think anything could happen here, but the sheer grind of our commute would really be a drag. I suppose that's the price you pay on some level, and it's probably about time security is tightened around the Fed (after 9/11, when every other sensitive building in DC was surrounded with concrete barriers, all we got were orange traffic cones, which are quite a deterrent), but there's something a little sad that life in DC--ostensibly the capital of the free world--has come to that.