Macys

Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman.

We went up to the Empire State Building last night! This is what the world’s biggest store looks like from the world’s tallest building (yeah, neither one of them are either one of that any more, but they always will be to me) taken by one pretty crude but nifty little PDA camera.

Brooklyn Bridge

Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman.

It was a stunningly beautiful day for a cruise on the Circle Line around Manhattan yesterday! So that’s just what we did.

I’m now lightly toasted, having had a seat in the uncovered part of the boat. I feel like Joan Rivers, my skin is pulled so tight.

But funnier.

Burning chametz Passaic

Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman.

I will be out of the loop through Tuesday due to the Passover holiday. See you on the other side!

An awards ceremony — where the honoree is actually an Israeli immigrant — becomes another forum for clerical antisemitism from a black preacher. From the comments:

Tim:

One thing Obama’s run is doing is bringing to light the fact that this sort of thinking is very widespread in the black community. And instead of bringing the races together, it is going to turn whites against blacks all over again. Mistrust will replace tolerance again.

I hate to say it, but as an otherwise tolerant white dude, I’m growing awful tired of this nonsense already.

Apr 9, 2008 – 7:52 pm

Jammer:

This is amazing.

The 2008 election was supposed to be a referendum on Iraq and the GOP, and a landslide for the Democrats.

Instead, it has become a referendum on black people and their mentality of militant victimhood. This mentality has clearly jumped the shark in an America where Asians are wealthier than whites, where Hispanics outnumber blacks, and where black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, etc. come here voluntarily and do well.

As a result, the chance of a Democrat winning is now under 50%.

Truly, truly amazing.

Apr 9, 2008 – 7:52 pm

I did raise the global aspect of this issue kind of early.

I’m not actually convinced this will make an electoral difference. A certain kind of organizational Jew makes a living condemning things like this and “demanding” apologies, etc., but very few unaffiliated liberal Jews will bat an eyelash. Notwithstanding the conspiracy theories, they don’t “vote Jewish” all that much or even “vote Israel” or that much. Their religion is the church of liberalism. (Hat tip to Instapundit.)

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds again, taking a skeptical view of a highly dubious spin.

Slate‘s Chadwick Matlin spots a problem with Hillary Clinton’s Rocky metaphor.

Never lose hope

Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman.

You’re reminded of this admontion in the oddest of places, sometimes.

Mommy’s Time Out wine

Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman.

In a liquor store, in Clifton, New Jersey.

So this is what it’s come to!

Interior of rotunda, New York Supreme Court, New York County

Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman.

Just a picture.

Not a lot of blogging. I spent the day on one case, and the evening on the case I was in Phoenix for when I took this picture last spring. Just so you know.

Yeah, yeah, the beard’s gone. It was a phase and stuff.

Flower husbandOriginally uploaded by Ron Coleman.

Not much blogging. Somebody is in the hospital. Not terribly “serious,” thank God, but quite the distraction, and inconvenience. Pain, too. Broken bone kind of thing.

A wise and warmhearted friend recommended a flower purchase when I ran home after the patient was admitted, and as usual she was right. Now the patient would not want her image on the Internet under the best of circumstances; and even I admit that in the hospital there’s nothing photogenic going on.

So here’s this. Actually, it is cute, isn’t it? Me, the terrifying (and highly ranked! and viewed!) corporate litigation attorney, and some peachy roses.

Almost humanizes me.

Well, you need not answer. But that’s all I’ve got for you today.