See if you can spot the GE Building (shot from the side) in this video – I worked 1/2 a block from that building for more than a year:

Mindrelic – Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

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Black Conservative Ken Blackwell, of the American Family Association wants you to know that pressing Israel to make peace with the Palestinians would be one of the great crimes in history, like Stalin blockading West Berlin, Hitler Invading Poland, or Lincoln dealing a death knell to the Confederacy at the Battle of Vicksburg:

Cutting Israel in half will be fatal.

When the town of Vicksburg fell in 1863, President Lincoln knew it was the death knell of the Confederacy. “The father of waters flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln said, poetically describing the Union’s new control over the length of the Mississippi River.

Contiguous, or contiguity, the noun. That’s what the Confederates lost at Vicksburg. Their new nation was cut in two. It withered and died.

So this is the dance a black man has to dance in order to favor with the Teabaggers, eh, Ken?

“Mediaite has learned that Glenn Beck’s last day on Fox News is currently scheduled to be June 30th. Fox News has confirmed this information to Mediaite.”

The problem with — must we? — Weinergate is that you have no choice but to take the Red Pill: the prosecution and the defense are equally absurd, and you’re down the Rabbit Hole before you know it, desperately craving a drink.

Case in point: a hypothesis humbly proposed yesterday — CASE CLOSED! CONGRESSMAN WEINER WAS FRAMED! — by blogger Joseph Cannon, who offered conclusive proof that not only was Weiner’s yfrog account hacked, but how.

And, after spending a half-hour following his steps to confirm the procedure, we suddenly realized that he’s full of shit.

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“Voters in Minnesota are not terribly into home state politicians Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann running for President next year. Only 28% think Pawlenty should seek the White House to 17% who think he should run for the Senate and 45% who think he shouldn’t run for anything. There’s even less interest in a Bachmann Presidential run — 14% think she should seek that office to 23% who think she should run for the Senate, 10% who think she should run for reelection to her House seat, and 47% who just want her to go away.” [Public Policy Polling, via Political Wire]

Politico headline: “Rep. Anthony Weiner ‘can’t say with certitude’ photo isn’t him”.

Politico story:

“I didn’t send that picture out,” Weiner said in an interview with NBC News.

“That’s not a picture of you?” reporter Luke Russert asked.

Weiner responded: “You know, I can’t say with certitude.”

We don’t have access to the video, but we have a strong suspicion that Weiner was making a gag about the extraordinary package, especially after old friend Jon Stewart confirmed last night that “my memory is this cat had a lot more Anthony and a lot less wiener.”

But that’s not the best gag. We give the gold to “reporter Luke Russert”.