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. . . well, not to Broadway, exactly, but not too far.  This is the corner of 34th Street and 8th Avenue.  I’ve been away from the office (and mainly from blogging) for coming on a week now due to certain … exigencies.  Thank God resolution for the good appears at hand, but, hey, remember me to Herald Square, ok?

Vodkapundit reports on odd traffic flowing around a triangle whose points are at Damascus, Jerusalem and Moscow.

Warning.

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First prize: A trip to northern New Jersey, home of so many special environmental spots.

Second prize: Two trips here.

Phoenix eve

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What a year.

75% Off

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Hotel souvenir shop in DC a couple of weeks ago.

That’s life.

Amtrak terminal, Penn Station, NY

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Did you have any idea the Amtrak Police could muster this kind of firepower?

Did you know there are Amtrak Police?

UnionShadows

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Washington, DC makes it look easy!

Fall

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Hand shredder

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No, really, I’ll pass, thanks.

No, no, no!

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For my entire career, I knew that — as every lawyer learns — you park your car near a certain end of the parking lot at the Bergen County courthouse, so you can walk across the street and then the unfenced part of the sheriff’s deputies’ parking lot and get to the court building in time for the degrading process of being scanned and frisked.

So someone figured out that was making life too damned easy for the world’s most contemptible creatures — lawyers — and ordered up a host of cones and orange-and-white dividers so we’d have to walk all the way down to the street and traverse the sidewalk , the long way, like so many second graders being escorted by a crossing guard.

No respect!