Why is the Department of Interior reading this blog?

On July 9, 2009, someone from the US Department of Interior paid Legally Irreverent a visit. Below is the screenshot - I've highlighted the pertinent part in yellow.


This federal government employee spent approximately 4 minutes and 27 seconds of tax payer time, surfing this blog - spanning seven pages. In the heat of my civic and moral outrage at this wasteful use of taxpayer resources, I decided to track down the cyber path of this frolicking federal employee.

This is what I found.

Apparently, if you googled "reflecting pool water" or "reflecting pool dirty water," Legally Irreverent comes up as amongst the top returns.

The reason?

My post about The Obelisk of Washington and the Reflecting Pool of Death is amongst the most frequented links for individuals researching the Washington Monument and the reflecting pool.

I suppose it is possible that my exclusive and "insightful" look at the failures of the National Park Service has caught the attention of its parent agency, the US Department of Interior... or alternatively, it could have been just a bored and frolicking employee was wasting tax payer's time.

If anyone happens to visit the National Mall, please let me know if the federal government has remedied the disgusting water problem, or properly paved the sidewalks. In the absence of any evidence that the National Mall has been revamped, I guess I'll just have to assume that the employee was frolicking, and wasting taxpayer's money.