Parachute Jump, Coney Island, Brooklyn, USA 10.03.10
From this morning’s cold & windy NYC waterfront/barrier island ride.
03.10.10
Brooklyn Chocolate Egg Cream
Sans egg. Sans cream.
17.10.10
Unless the administration seriously envisages a future that includes the continued private ownership of Libya and its people by Qaddafi and his terrible offspring, it’s a sheer matter of prudence and realpolitik, to say nothing of principle, to adopt a policy that makes the opposite assumption. Libya is—in point of population and geography—mainly a coastline. The United States, with or without allies, has unchallengeable power in the air and on the adjacent waters. It can produce great air lifts and sea lifts of humanitarian and medical aid, which will soon be needed anyway along the Egyptian and Tunisian borders, and which would purchase undreamed-of goodwill. It has the chance to make up for its pointless, discredited tardiness with respect to events in Cairo and Tunis. It also has a president who has shown at least the capacity to deliver great speeches on grand themes. Instead, and in the crucial and formative days in which revolutions are decided, we have had to endure the futile squawkings of a cuckoo clock.
Christopher Hitchens (via kateoplis)
Hitchens’ headline is even more scathing…and spot on:
Is Barack Obama Secretly Swiss?
The administration’s pathetic, dithering response to the Arab uprisings has been both cynical and naive.
25.02.11
via womenscycling:
Sarah Hammer on her winning ride in the Individual Pursuit, Track World Championships 2011 (by britishcycling.org.uk)
1. Sarah Hammer (USA), 2. Alison Shanks (NZ), 3. Vilija Sereikaite (Lithuania)
More photos from day 3 of the Track World Champs 2011 from British Cycling
Congrats Sarah!
25.03.11
via queenstage:
Taylor Phinney’s story about his last day in Romandie. Phinney, with his pedigree and already huge palmares, was a center of a bidding war amongst teams. A lesser guy would sit back and allow himself to be coddled and fawned over. It’s nice to know he has a scrap dog fighting spirit that forced his number to get cut off!
(via @taylorphinney)
Taylor Phinney doesn’t quit. America. Fuck yeah!
(via cycleboredom)
01.05.11
via thepoliticalnotebook:
This is Samar Hassan, now 12 years old. She was the screaming 5-year old girl in the striking photo taken by the late Chris Hondros, a photo that has become emblematic of the Iraq war. She had never seen the famous photo of her, blood-spattered, the night her parents were killed by American soldiers in Tal Afar in 2005. She now lives in Mosul, with her older sister and her sister’s husband.
The photograph of Samar is frozen in history, but her life moved on, across a trajectory that is emblematic of what so many Iraqis have endured. In a country whose health care system has almost no ability to treat the psychological aspects of trauma, thousands of Iraqis are left alone with their torment.
Read more at the New York Times.
(Photo Credit: Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times)
So incredibly sad how WE completely messed up Iraq & so many Iraqis lives in addition to the dead and wounded brave men and women of the US Armed Forces.
Was It Worth It President Bush & NeoCons? I think NOT!
BTW - the Boogie man was chillin’ in Pakistan with his wives…
(via kateoplis)
07.05.11
NYT: The Road to Gay Marriage in New York
The story of how same-sex marriage became legal in New York is about shifting public sentiment and individual lawmakers moved by emotional appeals from gay couples who wish to be wed.
But, behind the scenes, it was really about a Republican Party reckoning with a profoundly changing power dynamic, where Wall Street donors and gay-rights advocates demonstrated more might and muscle than a Roman Catholic hierarchy and an ineffective opposition.
It’s always about money. While emotional appeals help push a narrative, in politics, it’s solely about the money. And sometimes, the ends justify the means.
The #Truth about #NY & the #USA
25.06.11
“Last Stop USA” - During WWII 40k troops/month pass thru Piermont Pier on their way to Europe. Many were part of The D-Day invasion forces. More than 533k returned to the #USA first stepping on US soil in Piermont, NY. “Lest We Forget,” many who embarked from Piermont never returned. #4thOfJuly #America #Veterans (Taken with instagram)
02.07.11
1 day, 4 hours, 30 minutes, 42 seconds - morning ride #ConeyIsland #USA - they’re setting up for tomorrow’s contest…#BikeNYC #cycling (Taken with Instagram at Nathan’s Famous)
03.07.11
MASSIVE #RESPECT to the US Women’s Team for never giving up. I DVR’d the game and haven’t had a chance to watch…yet.
Saw the highlights last night and was immediately taken back to the 1999 Women’s World Cup here in the States.
I was lucky enough to see the first day of matches at a sold out old Meadowlands/Giants Stadium and subsequent matches in DC. That first day was amazing on many fronts and prompted me to send a souvenir from that first match along with a note to my then 3 year old niece. The note was about her being able to do whatever she wanted in her life no matter what anyone says, no matter whatever obstacles put in front of her. She’s now a very sick teenage sweeper on a select team in Texas.
Here’s a good analysis of the match by Roger Bennett.
via motherjones:
WE DO BIG THINGS.
(Source: kateoplis)
11.07.11
