Delusions of Adequacy

Three vital things about DC

1. People carry themselves with some weird sense of importance but move with no meaning or urgency. Is this why political progress in America occurs so infrequently?

2. At Nationals' games, four dudes with giant fake heads made to look like the Mt. Rushmore presidents race around the ballpark (one is pictured above, dancing). Roosevelt's never won.

3. Outside the fence around the White House's national yard, there's a small monument reading, "point for the measurement of distances from Washington on highways of the United States," so prominently stationed, it's as if it's designed to trick non-English-speaking tourists into photographing themselves with it.