Oh please please please let her make it onto the ballot:

She is so not Carrie Prejean … for once, I am proud of my state’s combatant in the Miss America contest:

Hell, I might actually watch!

The Augean Stables that are Albany  – at last, the cleaning starts:

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.

The judge told Bruno 97 months would have been too long of a sentence and probation would have been too little – that is why he decided on this sentence.

Bruno will not begin serving time until the Supreme Court makes a ruling on the Honest Services Law.

After a ruling is made, Bruno’s sentencing will be reevaluated.

Bruno Sentenced to 2 Years in Federal Prison [Fox 23]

So my best buddy calls me from Florida – he lives outside of Washington DC, but he claimed when I spoke to him today that he and his significant other are “stuck” in Miami.  He called from poolside at their hotel.  Rub it the fuck in.

Here in NYC we’re getting slammed. We might get 18 inches of snow or so total.

But it’s far worse in DC.  My buddy told me that in Montgomery County, where my Mom and sister live, the snow and wind is so bad that they took the snow plows off the road.  In Baltimore, no vehicles allowed on the road except plows and emergency vehicles. With about 29 inches of snow on the ground, they’re getting hit again.

And nojo emailed me a bit ago to say that it was warm in San Diego – his front door is open.

Rub it in.

He answers the question:

And yes – I would vote for him again, for AG. Unlike Vitter and Ensign, he resigned.

My latest gig is downtown, and this is one of the views. And no, not much is going on.  On the right, you can see what’s left of the Deutsche Bank Building.  Damaged in the attack and full of asbestos and other nasty substances, it’s being taken down story by story.

So I’m on a job from which I cannot post.  But I took a cell phone photo from WFC1 on Columbus Day, and this is it:

There’s a ship making its way toward Ellis Island at the middle right of the photo.  It just staggers me – this is the ship.  A replica, but so strange to see a 15th century bit of wood among all the freighters and ferries.  Amazing.