Submitted by booyahbaisse on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 13:39
After returning from Istanbul, which feels like the only place left in the world where cigarette smoking has yet to eclipse toothpaste in popularity, and returning to New York's nearly smokeless society, and now seeing these wonderful Soviet cigarette packets, I am finally realizing what almost everyone else around me has: we are well past the golden age of tobacco.
Submitted by DanteBronte on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 01:12
DICK CHENEY SPEAKING IN 1994, ON THE INEVITABLE DANGERS OF INVADING IRAQ.
What impresses me most about this video is how quickly and easily the words just roll right off his tongue, almost like he actually believes what he is saying.
So I work about a block and a half away from the "failure of [New York City's] infrastructure", which caused this.
The day after my office was within the "frozen zone" that shut everything down, however, 2 days later they opened up some of the nearby streets that allowed a flood of professionals in fancy clothes to weave through the police tape and barricades.
A few pictures:
The Greenpoint Oil Spill, the largest oil spill in American history, compromising anywhere from 17 to 30 million gallons of oil (which accounts for a spill that is twice to three times the amount of the Valdez spill), is still bubbling under the surface of northern Brooklyn and southern Queens. The spill, caused by an explosion in 1950, was only noticed in 1978 by the Coast Guard.
