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NYC is eliminating two lanes of traffic on the world's most famed and traffic-congested boulevard in order to make it more bike-and pedestrian-friendly:

Over the past week or so, there’s been this damn bird running up and down the driveway every time we leave. It’s a killdeer and it seemed to be just scurrying up and down in and around the driveway. Sunday we figured out why. We’d headed off to Lowes to price some materials and the bird was just sitting in the driveway.

I’ve been watching the LP Convention coverage on C-Span, they had the nominating speeches this morning, and just now finished the first round of balloting. Looking at the numbers for the first round, I’m thinking my prediction may bear out.

I’m sure al 3 of my faithful blog readers will be happy to know that even though my website was hacked, that I’m still here!  Yes, if you tuned in yesterday you would have been greeted with:

Diesel at Mattress Police makes me laugh. He needs a nemesis and he has found one.

In an email sent out from Gravel he said the Democratic Party "no longer represents my vision for our great country."

"It is a party that continues to sustain war, the military-industrial complex and imperialism — all of which I find anathema to my views."

Now we’re seeing reports (which basically serve to acknowledge the obviously likely) that Gravel joined the LP specifically to seek its presidential nomination.

Since last week’s open thread day was so interesting, let’s try it again today.  WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND LaVERGNEMANIACS, LaVERGNITES, AND LaVERGNERS?  I’ll start…

The collegiate campus of UC Berkeley isn’t an area usually connected to Bigfoot, but a temporary display at the Hearst Museum at the university is creating some conversation about the validity of sightings by the average Joe.