How's it going D.C.? We're here once again to highlight our completely non-objective picks for the week's best commentary.

Hopefully, everyone went outside and enjoyed the warm(ish) weather last week - here at What's That You Say?, we took the chance to eat curbside, air out the apartment, and catch our first Nationals game of the season. But with the weather getting warmer and the days getting longer, there's bound to be a spike in crime. In order to better monitor the streets for criminal activity, the District is giving MPD access to 5,200 CCTV cameras. While 51 percent of you think it's a good idea as planned, if we managed to implement the idea that Jamie presents - our Comment of the Week - we'll all be sitting inside quite a bit more throughout these nice spring evenings:

I'm all in favor of the cameras, but only if we can all check 'em out online anytime we want. You want community policing? I say, open the floodgates. Instead of reading DCist all day long and surfing porn all night, we could all be fascinated by clicking through the 2,400 cameras and watching crimes in progress.

Talk about good money management! The police department would be almost guaranteed that some voyeur is watching at any given time, and would call the cops if a crime was in progress. I can't think of a downside, honestly. If it's legal to stand on a streetcorner and watch the happenings, why shouldn't we be able to do so virtually. Leverage the paranoid population of DC to monitor the cameras, we'll all be safer.

After the jump, we've got comments galore to show off.

Photo by staceyviera.

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The Catholic Church (now with Metro!), bike thefts, liquor licensing, "big gay deities," and class act Norman Penn Jr. Welcome to your mid-week, pre-coffee, Morning Roundup thread. Enjoy!

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Elevators and escalators are getting better? Well...not if lukfarang is doing the investigation:

Um, the escalator at Brookland has been out for at least six months. The only activity I ever see towards fixing it is that they change the sign indicating when the work is supposed to be complete. January 2008, March 2008, April 2008...you get the picture.

while jstreet remembers better times:

I remember being in Metro one or more years ago and seeing on the sign:

It must have been a happy day for them. Hopefully we'll get back there.

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Yeah, it was probably a bad idea, but you guys seemed to think that Mayor Fenty's "Fleet Feet flub" was far from the most pressing issue the city has at the moment:

drew in adams morgan sums up the sentiment nicely:

Oh my gosh. I think that the founders of the National Cherry Blossom 10 miler, the Army 10 miler, the Marine Corps Marathon and the National Marathon should also all be in an uproar that the founder of National Triathlon is shamelessly promoting his event on an official DC document!

Despite all of the other problems going on with this city (the ballooning interest payments on the Stadium, the scandal in the Office of Tax & Revenue, etc.) I am so glad that the Republicans were able to pin-point the one issue most upsetting to citizens and tourists alike.

Reid notes that the photoshopping job is probably a bigger concern:

I actually agree that this is kind of in bad taste for Fenty, and borderline unethical (if not flat out illegal, if not only technically so). But really, in the annals of DC corruption, this isn't even a footnote. This isn't even a DFW footnote-to-a-footnote.

But speaking of photoshop, it looks like that's how they got Fenty into this stock photo in the first place. Unless of course he's a vampire and doesn't cast a shadow.

while we're pretty jubilated with jen209's word freak commendation:

I think all the previous commenters have missed out on a crucial commenting opportunity: props to Martin on his superb alliteration. Frustrated by Fenty's Family-Friendly Faux Pas - that's freaking fabulous!

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So, is there really Verizon phone reception on the Metro? Depending on where you are, it might be a crapshoot - according to some of you.

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Uh oh, OldPosterKnownAsCranky made a funny!

Q. What do you call people who practice the rhythm method?

Now I will have to go to confession.

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yonas was none too pleased about the new Flickr function - videos:

Well, I was semi-excited when I realized that they started to support video. Then I thought about it for a while and now I'm quite displeased. Flickr will now be inundated with YouTube-caliber videos that truly degrade the site's integrity as the leading edge in photo sharing. It truly is a sad thing and I don't like it one bit.

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fatkidspecial shares his advice on countering the DMV's ineptitude:

When is Fenty going to put a Rhee clone in charge of the DMV. You could fire everyone in the department and productivity would probably increase.

Only good thing about DC's DMV is you can play to their incompetence. I once re-scheduled a hearing on a pretty expensive speeding ticket 5 times over two years. When i finally showed up in court 25 months after being pulled over the officer had retired. Ticket dismissed.

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Hey, bike sharing! Sounds like a good idea to us.

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IMGoph makes a good point about the Newseum - and how it needs to be successful regardless of the high admission price:

the thing is, this building, unlike the failed city museum, was purpose built to be what it is. if it does close, it's not a tidy conversion to an office cube farm. because i don't want to see an empty shell downtown, i really hope it succeeds. i really think that the $20 admission fee can't last long. not even a couple months, i'd wager.

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Monkeyrotica gives a lecture on the phenomenon of Maryland Fried Chicken:

If 13 painful years growing up in Maryland taught me anything, it's that an authentic "Maryland Fried Chicken" recipe is about as elusive as the Zekiah Swamp Monster or the eelpoot. Lard or shortening? Old Bay or no? Served with some fruit or alone? Check out any recipe book from pre-Julia Child era and Maryland Fried Chicken usually shows up. Every recipe differs, and usually in some oddball way, as if they're desperately to try and live up to the reputation of their older Kentucky brother.

Well, if that doesn't scream "Maryland", then pull my beard and call me "horse."

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With playoffs for the Caps in full swing and the Wizards opening round right around the corner, we're just that much more inspired to pass out some of the silverware around these parts.

This week's winner of the Avatar Award for Achievement in the Field of Avatars is happy to recognize Monguin, who not only has dedicated a username, but an avatar to that wonderful scientific pursuit - the creation of mutant animal species which could be classified as crimes against nature. We're all for scientific progress around here. So, congratulations, you mad scientist, you.

This week's Username of the Week goes to DCificare. Fierce and to the point. We like.