Thursday morning roundup

I was not aware that the Queen had a royal piper and an official counter of swans.

Wah. People are whining about the indoor tanning tax.

Dionne on why "Chairman Mike" is entitled to his opinion.

Do the oceans a favor: eat lionfish.

Following up on its less-than-revolutionary coverage of the winter's snowstorms, the Post, on its *front page*, reports that it's hot. And, yup, I stepped into a non-airconditioned metrorail car yesterday. I managed to transfer to another car at the next station, but that first one was bad.