By Restless

It was a good day. Tulips were blooming, everybody was out.

The Met, late afternoon.

Skater grrrl.

Cool Shade.

Lake with a view.

Angels in America.

Making Manhattan livable.

 
There was a key moment in the Republican debate in South Carolina a few days ago when Ron Paul, expressed his opinion as to why we were attacked on 9/11, stating that years of bombings and sanctions against Iraq and other countries in the Middle East might have had something to do with it.
Rudy Giuliani […]

By Restless
This vid ends before we discover who the winner is: the cobra or the baby.  The cobra must be a pet and de-fanged?
Link (Via boing boing)

From MSNBC.COM: 
Beyond blisters: Herpes has an upside
Virus shown to protect mice against bubonic plague, other dangerous germs
The herpes family of viruses can have a surprising upside — it can protect against the bubonic plague and other bacterial contagions, at least in mice.
Research into whether a similar mechanism applies to humans and other mammalian hosts should […]

By Restless
The first year I attended Burning Man (1998), I rented a huge RV and drove to my friends’ camp to the far north of city center arriving just after midnight on Wednesday. What an astonishing sight! I will never forget those first hours, listening to Bolero waft out from one camp, while from another […]

It’s 20 minutes long, but amazing to watch.
In brief… Here is what happened:
Back in March of 2004, Bush wanted the Justice Department, then led by John Ashcroft, to give their seal of approval to Bush’s illegal wiretapping of American citizens.
Ashcroft was wary of this, and refused to sign.
A week or so […]

If you’re tired of driving all over town looking for the best gas prices during these times of runaway price hikes, you might want to check out gaspricewatch.com.   
All you do is enter your zipcode, then you see a list of all the cheap gas prices in your area, complete with a Google Map and everything.

What in the world is this guy standing on?

By Restless
As things get murked up in Washington regarding funding or de-funding the war, who’s pushing for an end, who’s sincere in bringing it to an end, Matt Taibbi checks in with his usual blunt analysis.
I’ve been reading the Chalmers Johnson trilogy, which details the U.S.’s consistent meddling in the affairs political and economic of […]

By Restless
Patrick Cockburn, author of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, has written an analysis about the damage the Iraq war has done to America as a superpower. In his 5-page post on AlterNet, he makes it concretely clear what a monumental mistake it has been.
Moreover, even though U.S. covert policy is to stay […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Moral Majority leader Falwell dies
Evangelical pastor was found in his university office
LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell — founder of the Moral Majority and the face of the religious right in the 1980s — died Tuesday after being found unconscious in his office, a Liberty University executive said.
Ron Godwin, Liberty’s executive vice president, […]

By Restless 
I love New York in late-spring, especially in evenings. Warm, but breezy, the city takes a rest about midnight in the mid-week. Walking or biking around an almost deserted Manhattan — like being in SF on a balmy Indian Summer night.

Self-Portrait, midnight Spring 2007

Corner Grocery Flower Stand

A cab when you need one.

As if you needed more evidence of what a complete tool Bill O’Reilly is.
It’s like watching a member of Mensa speak with a retard.
You have to love O’Reilly’s fake defense of Christianity, as if he goes to church every Sunday and prays to Jesus, not to mention his total lack of historical knowledge.
I did learn […]