Winter Solstice

Drones

Cedar Tree Neck

Santa Rides the Subway

Thank you, Daniel Penny. And Eric Drooker.

Merriam-Webster's 2024 Word of the Year

Merriam-Webster's 2024 Word of the Year: Polarization

"Merriam-Webster's 2024 Word of the Year is polarization, which happens to be one idea that both sides of the political spectrum agree on. Search volume on Merriam-Webster.com throughout the year reflected the desire of Americans to better understand the complex state of affairs in our country and around the world.

"We define polarization as division into two sharply distinct opposites; especially, a state in which the opinions, beliefs, or interests of a group or society no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes.' "

Santa's Naughty and Nice List

Is it art?

Is it art? Or comedy?

Copy Nothing

This is a car commercial for $100,000+ vehicles? And this is the market? Really?

 

Fall Cleanup

2024 Election Results

Toss up? Nope.

2024 Election

Toss up?

Test Your Strength

Election Day looms.

 

World War 3

Northern Lights on Martha's Vineyard

Courtesy of Larry Glick and Ray Ewing at the Vineyard Gazette.

Political Yard Signs

In our hometown 40 miles north of Manhattan, Harris-Walz signs predominate. 

Hurricane Politics

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper

Charles Ebbets' iconic 1932 photograph of construction workers eating lunch on an iron beam 850 feet above the ground during the construction of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center symbolized America's daring and can-do spirit during the Depression. 

Today, tourists can experience being above it all on The Beam.

Milestones

Paging Hezbollah

Israel's IDF and Mossad know exactly who they're fighting.

Darth Vader ~ RIP

September's Red Flowers

Johnny Gaudreau, RIP

Brother Matthew, too. 

Summer Flowers

Smarter than the average bear?

The word weird has been making the rounds in politics lately.

Very weird.

Saving Democracy!

How Obama and other Democratic Party bosses beat Biden

 

Float like a butterfly, sting like a "he"

An abomination.

2024 Paris Olympics

What we hoped for and what we got.

 

Lock Her Up!

 

Apollo 11

"The Eagle has landed." 55 years ago today. 

A sublime, proud, and indelible memory.

And just one day after Ted Kennedy drove off Chappaquiddick's Dyke Bridge, killing Mary Jo Kopechne.

A Taco Is Not A Croissant

Whew, boy! 

Martha's Vineyard Times ~ An Outburst Over a Croissant Shop in Chilmark

This story and the readers' comments are a shameful reflection on life today on the Vineyard.

A couple examples:

July 4

We watched the fireworks from the end of a dock jutting out into Edgartown harbor. Watching the display and its reflection on the water was sublime.

2024 Election

When did a heat wave become a heat dome?

Mondays

The Logo

Jerry West ~ RIP.

For the Birds