A website called LoudounNow (loudounnow.com) this week has picked up the ongoing story featured in the previous Sunday’s “Loudoun” section of the Washington Post. These are laughable pieces describing so-called “economic development” that I thought I left behind when I escaped Binghamton five years ago.

Nope. Even in rich counties such things exist.

More than just “developing” economies, though (let’s face it, Loudoun’s already pretty developed), the meddlesome folks down here are looking to boards, panels, and committees of experts to find things for us to do in our free time. Apparently that’s difficult and requires the work of quasi-government agencies.

Like I never left Binghamton.

Let me regale you with a few names.

You see, at the top seems to be the Loudoun County Department of Economic Development. Okay, bad enough.

Of course there is the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce (I usually put “commerce” in quotes when discussing such things). Quoted in the LoudounNow article is the “Director of Membership and Brand Strategy” of said chamber of “commerce.”

There is the Loudoun Young Professionals, whatever that is. A dating service, perhaps?

And then the Leesburg Economic Development Commission, different from the county version.

The Loudoun Economic Development Advisory Commission is some type of subgroup of the Loudoun County Department of Economic Development (I think), then a subgroup of that is the Nighttime Economic Advisory Committee.

Yup, that’s a thing.

Still can’t figure out whether I’m in Binghamton, la-la land, or Soviet Russia.

But I repeat myself.