This picture was taken today as Pentagon officials conducted a "full-scale" three-hour exercise to evaluate emergency preparedness plans. The drill was called “Gallant Fox III,” which delights me because more interior decorators should get to make up drill names, particularly ones that save us from the exhaust of the Marriot airport shuttle. In “Gallant Fox IV” our forces will protect us against gypsy cabs that rarely change the evergreen tree air freshener. — FRED BECKER

Pentagon Conducts 'Full-Scale' Emergency Drills [WP]