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

Campaign Promises

Ain't that the truth.

D-Day

80 years.

Too Many Messages

Just wait.

A New Political Era

Yesterday's Trump "hush money" verdict and conviction have accelerated this election year's hyper-partisanship.

"The conviction sets a precedent of using legal cases, no matter how sketchy, to try to knock out political opponents, including former Presidents. President Trump has already vowed to return the favor. If Democrats felt like cheering Thursday when the guilty verdict was read, they should think again. Mr. Bragg might have opened a new destabilizing era of American politics, and no one can say how it will end." ~ The Wall Street Journal

"Buckle up," Trump said.

And Biden's reaction.

 

Let's Go Rangers!

Game 4 in NHL Eastern Conference Final tonight in Florida, with the New York Rangers up 2-1 in the series.

 

NHL Eastern Conference Finals

After a lackluster and disappointing Game 1 loss to the Florida Panthers Wednesday night, the New York Rangers played with grit and intensity to win Game 2 in overtime and even the series. On to Florida for Games 3 and 4.

Class of 2024

After the October 7 atrocities by Hamas and Iran against innocent Israelis, I do not have a sense of humor about the rampant antisemitism and campus protests at colleges across the United States this spring. The New Yorker magazine and cartoonist Barry Blitt shouldn't either.

More here at the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism.