MADE IT HOME IN ONE PIECE, as U.S. Air did a perfect job, delivering me to DC on time in the morning, and getting me back tonight. Of course, both flights were nonstops, which helped. Still, these days simple on-time performance is worthy of note.

OKAY, this one isn’t actually from campus. It’s from Market Square downtown, where I slipped out for a quick drink with some colleagues yesterday afternoon. I had work to do, I guess — basically, I always have work to do — but it was such a perfect, gorgeous day that I decided the work could wait. Others felt the same way.

Those perfect days aren’t always around. My advice is seize ’em while you can.

Trust me, the work will always be there.

THIS IS THE LAW SCHOOL, seen from the Student Center plaza.

IS MCCAIN’S TEAM out of touch?

A STRANDED FLYER is blogging from the airplane as it sits on the tarmac. More bad publicity for the airlines. . . .

But kind of cool. I’m at the airport now waiting for my flight back home; hope my luck is better!

FCC SAYS NO to mobile phones on airplanes.

Fine, but I want my in-flight wi-fi.

THREE YALE STUDENTS ARRESTED FOR BURNING AN AMERICAN FLAG: Though what makes it a crime is that the flag belonged to someone else — and was, in fact, attached to that someone else’s house at the time. . . .

Not a glowing moment for Mother Yale.

OMAR REPORTS FROM BAGHDAD.

I’M AGAINST ABORTION on the first date.

ROSIE O’DONNELL, Democratic strategist?

ANOTHER shot from the patio.

TOMMY THOMPSON endorses the Iraq oil trust idea.

THOUGHTS ON BUYING RUGS, from Extreme Mortman.

THE LEAVES ARE OUT on campus.

ILYA SOMIN looks at the state of post-Kelo reform.

AIRLINES GETTING READY to roll out airborne wi-fi.

It’s about time.

BY THE WAY, the pictures of campus that I’m posting were taken with this tiny Sony, which I believe is a slightly newer version of the one Ann Althouse uses. (Helen has taken over the Sony that I had been carrying, and I’m glad enough to find a digital camera that she likes to use that I’m not complaining.)

I like it pretty well — it’s tremendously small — but it does run against my philosophies of using AA batteries and having a real (optical) viewfinder. I had to squint a bit to make it out while shooting things like this bumblebee in bright sun.

PORKBUSTERS AMMO: The OMB earmarks detail database is live. I wish it would let you browse by member of Congress, though. Still, it looks quite useful.

UPDATE: Ask and ye shall receive! Well, kind of.

BRITISH HOSTAGES TO BE RELEASED: Roundup here.

UPDATE: Roger Kimball is not overjoyed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: More thoughts from Austin Bay, who puts this in the context of Iran’s “intel war” against the United States.

FROM FORD, a plug-in, fuel-cell, hydrogen-powered car. Hydrogen fuel cells charge the batteries. Everything’s electric, but no fossil fuels. Video at the link.