No this post isn’t about Chevy Chase, not unless it featured him speeding down Connecticut Avenue in a future National Lampoon’s spin-off roadtrip “Capitol Vacation” film. No, this is about Chevy Chase the neighborhood and about crossing the street. And DCSOB says that on the D.C. side of the border, locals have gone overboard with crosswalk safety.

In fact, the new flags pedestrians can use to signal drivers to stop at crosswalks crossing busy Connecticut Avenue at Morrison and Northampton streets also have political implications: “But there’s something more to it than looking like a dork. These flags represent the death of the Democratic Party.”

These are the people who believe that the most dangerous drivers, the ones who hit people, will slow down if they could only see people crossing the street. They don’t need lights, cameras or penalties — they need to be made aware. And what’s more indicative of a loser liberal than awareness, in its most useless and amorphous form?

An interesting point. A check of the 20015 ZIP code on Fundrace.org reveals that the this whole part of town gave its political donations primarily to John Kerry. But we aren’t sure if the use of crosswalk safety flags is a good measure of voting tendencies or strength of a party’s political capital. Let’s get Zogby on it.