From Karen Russel at huffingtonpost.com - The GOP’s African-American Talking Points

From Arrian Huffington herself:

“Delay, Frist, Abramoff, Safavian… Wasn’t this the crowd that was going to “restore honor and integrity” to Washington? If this is what integrity looks like, let’s bring back Oval Office blow jobs.”

According to Bill Bennet criticism of his comments below are “ridiculous, stupid, totally without merit.”

“I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,” Mr. Bennettsaid in the broadcast. “That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.”

I was going to be upset if The New York Times decided to hide this article under the Times Select. Alas… they did not.

Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia, has penned the most well written piece on science, for general consumption, that I have ever read. His illumination of the ubiquitous, but little understood (at least by science-phobic persons such as myself) E=MC² left me wishing that men and women of letters were regularly assigned by newspapers to demystify some of the underlying (and often taken for granted) systems that have a deep effect on out daily lives. And I don’t just mean science. For instance, I can imagine that many folks look at the deficit in much the same way they look at Einstein’s theory. They know what it is, but they don’t really understand what it means and how it works.

Thank you for not hiding this educational and vitally important article in the “secret garden” that is the Times Select.

Ok… so my blog has been somewhat schizophrenic over the last few months as I switched from writing posts to simply uploading some of the photos I have been taking. It has been bothering me, but I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.

I finally dove under the hood of Wordpress and figured out how to make a separate blog for my photos that suits my tastes. So from here on out, my new photos will be posted at http://mikeoliver.org/photolog. My blog will remain at this address.

Go ahead… check it out.

Coney Island. Brooklyn, NY

I guess I didn’t take this photo on the sly. Even the little kid on the left is eyeing me up…

Adams Morgan. Washington, DC

City Hall. New York, NY

Alley off of P Street, N.W. Between 17th and 18th. Washington, DC

Thompson Street, between 3rd and Bleecker. New York, NY

I am currently migrating from Blogger to Wordpress (the first time I have ever shifted away from a Google product). I have managed to get all my posts and comments ported over, but things might be a little broke down for the next few days as I get settled in.

ps. categorizing over 400 posts is going to be un-fun.

pps. I thought about not doing it, but my inner-librarian protested.

Found just outside Washington Square Park. New York, NY

View from my deck. New York, NY