Happy Hour

Enjoy

Gonna Need More Bikes

Judging by my random survey of bikeshare availability, they're gonna need more bikes.

Hellhole Grumbling

I know Sunday is "park anywhere day" but in front of hydrants? Blocking crosswalks?

gr.

Primary Colors

I know I only experience this because I read too much of the internet, but why does primary season bring out the ridiculous narcissists? And it's only May. 2015.

Elections Elsewhere

It's been depressing to watch Labour do the "slightly less evil than the other guys" schtick that we're so used to here. They might trip over the finish line anyway, but I doubt it. I just don't get why it's so hard to find obviously popular policies and campaign on them, even if you're full of shit.

Morning Thread

Already almost full light. I love this time of year.

Saturday Night

Rock on.

Saturday Afternoon

Really not sleeping these days so I required a nap.

Doing The Business Of The People

We are ruled by children.

Not Sure He Knows How This Game Is Played

Every time Ed Miliband seems like he knows what he's doing, 5 seconds later he shows that he doesn't.

Morning, I Guess

There was a dinner yesterday evening. There was wine.

Evening Thread

enjoy

Two Predictions: One Good, One Bad

The Baltimore cops will effectively have their own "riot" tonight, jacking up everyone they can.

But they've been put on notice, so it might be their last hurrah.

Hopefully only the second one has any truth to it.

Afternoon Thread

enjoy

The Urban Avenger

Wanksy speaks.

Actual Charges

The state's attorney is actually going to charge 6 police officers in events surrounding the death of Freddie Gray. Not sure what the actual charges are.

Never optimistic that cops will be convicted for even obvious illegal wrongdoing, but failure to charge them, as is common, is proof the system is rotten from top to bottom.

America's Worst Humans

David Brooks.

Who's Serious?

Basically anyone with a pulse is taken seriously by our media if they run for president as a Republican. I don't see one this week, but the NYT has run weekly fawning profiles of all the wannabees - even before they declared! - over the past couple of months. If you're a Democrat, however, and you're slightly to the left of Jeb Bush, you aren't "serious."

I ain't gonna bet on Bernie Sanders winning the nomination, but I wouldn't bet on Jindal, Perry, Christie, etc... either.

So Petty

Probably not just about lane closures.

The inquiry by the U.S. Attorney's office, however, soon expanded beyond the bridge, looking into whether David Samson, a close Christie ally and adviser, used his position as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — which operates the George Washington Bridge — to steer contracts and business to his powerful law firm, Wolff & Samson.

Samson stepped down from the Port Authority last year. He retired from his law firm last month, which was quickly renamed. No one answered the door at his home this morning.

Morning Thread