Down to the river on a bright sunny autumn day.

Taken from the third floor of Pier 17, South Street Seaport.

Took the free ferry to Ikea on Sunday. Walked around the new Erie Basin Park, old Todd Shipyards in Red Hook. I walked across the street and took this panorama of this "industrial" basin.

Down to the Rockaways to take some pictures of the "surfers". I am not sure how big the surf gets normally but there wasn't much of a surf and there weren't many surfers there.

From St. George to Whitehall on the Staten Island Ferry. Two Coast Guard "gunboats" raced to nowhere with lights flashing and if they had sirens they would have been wailing too.

On a bridge over the Charles River.

Out on the fishing pier this guy was taking a midafternoon nap.

Coney Island again this afternoon. New Nikon Coolpix P5100 camera, dropped one Samsung and kicked the other, so out of convenient video cameras. I am sure this will fill up my harddrives nicely.

Took six(6) videos of different Cyclone runs. I just wanted the first drop. Spliced them together in QuickTime Pro.

Again with the fireworks.

Last night at Coney Island (06/27/2008) fireworks finale.

First night of fireworks at Coney Island.

Coney Island three times last week, twice at night and once on Sunday. Some of the many, many images I took; most of them were on Sunday from the fishing pier.

I was standing on the pier talking to a young fisherman and as I was taking pictures about five or six people came up to me to ask me to take their pictures with the rides in the background. I gladly complied and then took their pictures with the rides and then had to explain to them about the Parachute Jump as I moved them to where I could take their picture with it as the bacground.

Last year in Vienna I was out walking and crossed a bridge over a small train yard.

Pre Xmas gathering at my sister-in-law's

Instead of taking the LIRR from Penn I decided to take it from Jamaica. I took the "J" Train (Jamaica Avenue el) from Essex and was fortunate to have a semi-clean front window.

I hadn't been on the Jamaica Avenue el in the daytime since high school. When I was going to school in Brooklyn, Bishop Loughlin, I sometimes took the Myrtle Avenue el to Myrtle Avenue changed to the Jamaica Avenue el to 168th Street and then the buses home. This was instead of the more direct route: "GG" Clinton Washington to Queens Plaza and then the "E" to 169th Street and then a walk to the 165th Street bus terminal.

Because of the length of the trip and the limitations of Youtube and anyone who views the video, I broke it into six segments:

• Essex to Marcy over the bridge
  
• Marcy to Myrtle
  
• Myrtle to Broadway Junction
  
• Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills
  
• Cypress Hills to Woodhaven
  
• Woodhaven to Parsons Archer
  

Essex to Marcy over the bridge


Marcy to Myrtle


Myrtle to Broadway Junction


Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills



Cypress Hills to Woodhaven


Woodhaven to Parsons Archer

Couldn't even afford a flashing red light!

Budget cuts are happening all over the place. There is no organization safe from them:

Ride up to Dyckman Park via the A Train.
Video of ride from 155th Street to Dyckman St.

Staten Island Ferry from St. George to Whitehall.

Waiting for the Staten Island Ferry watched this young girl play "pickpocket" with her father's MetroCard and pocket.

Down to Coney Island again last evening for the Friday fireworks. Took some good images of them and put them together in a slide show. I have uploaded a version to YouTube:



Had great audio, but alas it is copyrighted so I have removed it.


I can email full sized images if anyone wants them.

Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Sunset over the harbor, taken from water taxi pier in the East River just below Wall Street. It is a sequence of stills put together in a Quicktime movie. The individual images are at .25 seconds.

There is a copter landing from the left.

Found a time lapse video I made in May 2001. I put a web camera at my window and had it take a picture every 15 seconds and then left for work. I returned home later that evening and this is the result:

I was awakened early this morning by the sound of fire engines going down the street. Usually I fall back to sleep as they continue down East Broadway past my window; but this morning they stopped in front. Now I was awake. I live in an old tenement and with the engines stopped just outside; it was time to investigage. I looked out the window and saw that the main activity was two doors down so I could put on some clothes and go out on the fire escape and take some pictures.

Here is a video pan of the engines that showed up for the show. It is taken using the video mode of my Canon PowerShot A95:



B&W version using B&W in the video mode:

Second You Tube upload. This one is a set of still images taken in sequences and put together into a "movie" I like how it tricks the eye into thinking it is has movement. I know that is what a "real" movie does, but this isn't as smooth and yet it still tricks the eye. I had a audio track of a Ray Charles song with it, but copyright rules would frown on it in a public space.

Did my first You Tube upload. It is a movie I took from the first car of an A Train on the way back from JFK. It is pretty hokey, but if you like looking out the door of the first car it isn't bad.

From Orcinus, Dave Niewert's excellent blog;

"The other kind of terrorist

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Hey, here's another addition to that gallery [picture of David McMenemy] (inspired by Michelle Malkin) of terrorists who happen to be white fundamentalist fanatics:...

Jennifer Pozner's Newsday column hits the target precisely:

On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.

No national newspaper, magazine or network newscast reported this attempted suicide bombing, though an AP wire story was available. Cable news (save for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann) was silent about this latest act of terrorism in America.

Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism -- even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war."

Some pictures I took during a walk in Inwood Hills Park at the upper limit of Manhattan Island.

Upper Manhattan

During last evening's thunderstorms. I was lucky to make it under a scaffold and awning before the skies really opened up.

New store opening across East Broadway this afternoon.

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According to the news sources , Yahoo, Bush authorized Libby to leak secret information and Chaney is probably involved. Sounds like federal offensed to me. If they both are removed here, from the Cornell Law School US Code collection, is the "Law of Presidential Succession":


TITLE 3 > CHAPTER 1 > § 19 Prev | Next

§ 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act
Release date: 2006-03-20

(a)
(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
(2) The same rule shall apply in the case of the death, resignation, removal from office, or inability of an individual acting as President under this subsection.
(b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) of this section a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

In Slavoj Zizek's book, The Puppet and the Dwarf - The Perverse Core of Christianity he writes:

"The first thing we should add to this today is that the same goes for advocates of religion themselves: how many fanatical defenders of religion started by ferociously attacking contemporary secular culture and ended up forsaking religion itself (losing any meaningful religious experience)? And is it not a fact that, in a strictly analogous way, liberal warriors are so eager to fight antidemocratic fundamentalism that they will end up flinging away freedom and democracy themselves, if only then can fight terror? They have such a passion for proving that non-Christian fundamentalism is the main threat to freedom that they are ready to fall back on the position that we have to limit our own freedom here and now, in our allegedly Christian societies. If the "terrorists" are ready to wreck this world for love of the other, our warriors on terror are ready to wreck their own democratic world out of hatred for the Muslim other. Jonathan Alter and Alan Dershowitz love human dignity so much that they are read to legalize torture -- the ultimate degradation of human dignity--to defend it.

Snow(?) Pile

Snow(?) Pile
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

This is what a snowpile looks after lying on the ground after 4 days in the streets of New York. It redefines the term, "pure as the driven snow!"

Dragon on Mott Street during the Chinatown July 4th parade; on July 3, 2005.

Nick at "Cup and Saucer" coffee shop at Eldridge and Canal Streets.

July 4, 2005 Coney Island sunset.

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Sunset last night, 06/24/2005 looking west along 58th Street from Sixth Avenue.

Fawzia Afzal-Khan singing during our INTOX Grassroots fundraiser on Monday June 20, 2005. It was held at the Sundaram Tagore. The event was sponsored by Ibrahim Quraishi artistic director of Compagnie Faim de Siecle and EGO Magazine.

The event was held for CFdS which has been commissioned by the Asia Society to produce a new work 5 Streams. 5 Streams will be workshopped at Mass Moca in October 2005 and premiered at the Asia Society in January 2006.

On the Beach

On the Beach
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Black seems to be a bit impractical for beachwear, especially on a very bright sunny day with temperatures in the high 80s.

Too much of a good thing!

Too much of a good thing!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Can a person wear too much green? Obviously she doesn't think so.

Mother of 16 year old pleads...

"I don't want to live here anymore," the mother said. "I always
thought that this country is better for my children, but now..." She
broke off and began sobbing. "She's just 16," she cried. "I just want
my daughter. Please, can you help me?"

--Shobak.org

16 year old Bangladeshi girl held as a "terrorist"

From A 16 year old Bangladeshi girl has become the target of a terrorist
investigation. We believe she is being scapegoated unfairly and
victimized. Her lawyer has failed to represent her and Bangladesh
consulate in NY has (shamefully) failed to take any action on her
behalf.

-- Shobak.org

By Neil Steinberg in this mornings New York Daily News:

Excuses make heads spin — scout's honor

"Is there a postive spin that the Boy Scouts of America hasn't applied to Douglas Smith, a top scout official, pleading gulty to possessing a huge cache of child pornography? None of the boys in the hundreds of photos was a scout — well that's good! And no actual scouts seem to have been involved — also good! He did his ogling at home and not at work — a plus! And he's really, really sorry.

Did the scouts leave anything out? At least Smith isn't gay — that would be violation of scout rules."

Is anyone surprised there are no civilian border guards watching the borders of the United States where good old europeans can get in? Again Orcinus gets it right.

Fire in Greenpoint II

Fire in Greenpoint II
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

After doing taxes for a friend in Greenpoint, took a slight detour to the last dousing of a three story house fire. They were just setting up the final barricades and I was chased by a self-important volunteer cop (auxilary policeman).

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Took a two bridge walk on Sunday; Brooklyn Bridge through DUMBO and back to Manhattan over the Manhattan Bridge. Goal is to make it a four bridge walk; BB to MB to Williamsburg Bridge to 59th Street Bridge and subway back.

Gate Reflections 1

Gate Reflections 1
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

There will be thousands of pictures of The Gates on all sorts of pages. I think the pictures are an attempt, a feeble one, to portray what the photographer experienced.

I add a couple of my own.

Look here for a sequence of the gates blowing.

Thank you Christo!!
Entrance to the Park on Fifth Avenue in the mid 60s with The Gates stilled wrapped,
...and later in the morning.
Reflections on a pond in the Park...

Hey You up against the wall

Two wall paintings on Mott Street, just below Broome Street.

Eyes are upon you!

Eyes are upon you!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

If you have the feeling that someone may be following you or looking over your shoulder while walking on the mezzenine level of the Chambers Street, WTC subway station, you may be right!

It is now officially less than 4 years before a new president. Less than 4 years of bush unless he tells us that he heard from god that he should have a thrid term and there was no need to hold an election since it was god that declared that bush should have a third term.

Foggy morning pictures.

Again waiting for the bus on Second Avenue last night and took more sequences. The movie size is 1.7 mb and the images are again played at .5 seconds each. The same critical review as before. I apologize for the clashing colors that surround the images, but I like ugly colors.

Was waiting for the bus on Second Avenue last night and rested my camera against the bus stop and took some sequences of 10 pictures each and put them in a quicktime move. The movie size is 1.2 mb and the images are .5 seconds each. It is not particularily exciting "video".

Under the category of "Can people with money get any worse, comes" this story from the New York News. It seems that even the tsumani can't keep people from their vacations and their demand for the usual services connected with them. Imagine the outrage of not having champagne available for a guest. Where is the traditional submissive asian hospitality?

Santa's Ugly Secret

Santa's Ugly Secret
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Santa caught, on the feast of Stephen, either tipsy from post Christmas cheer or just getting rid of all the treats left by the children of the world. Whatever the reason it was a shameful display of lack of self control.

Xmas Lunch

Xmas Lunch
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Nothing like a Nathan's hotdog to put you in the holiday spirit. I am not being condescending here as that is what I had for Xmas lunch.

What day is it?

What day is it?
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Christmas afternoon on Brighton Beach. One of these "groups" misread the calendar and/or the weather report.

A Gaggle Of Santas

A Gaggle Of Santas
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

A large group of santas converged at East Broadway and Eldridge Street for unknown purposes. The Chinese were oblivious and unimpressed. They just went around them; just another sidewalk blockage.

Soiled Pinstripes

The New York papers are having a field day with the BALCO story in general and the Jason Giambi story in particular. They are lamenting the disgrace of the Yankees having had their great tradition soiled by the steroids taking of Jason Giambi. I rarely read the New York Post but one was at a table I was having coffee at Friday and they and their fans were being particularily stupid, as only the New York Post can. As a Mets fans my brother and I have always loathed the Yankees and were not in the least sad at their post season demise, especially at the hands of the hated Red Sox. In response to this hypocritical uproar by the media and the Yankee fans my brother Peter wrote the following email to the New York Post:

"Please stop! I never realized that when you become a Yankee you passed through the gates of heaven. This is a team concerned only with winning. A team that is good at it. But this is a team that will win at any price and overlook any situation and pay anything to win. Hell be damned.

Please stop about the Yankees being disgraced. This is a team that employed great and greatest players of all time. Saint Mickey, Sir Whitey and poor Billy Martin. And yes there was the Great Bambino. Had the press at that time been anything like it is these days. The investigative journalists would have been exposed their reputations and antics that would most likely rival today’s scandals.This is a team that has employed Steve Howe, A 5 time drug test failure Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden….. I know that Mr. Steinbrenner only signed them out the goodness of his heart. He saw no advantage to these signings. These players had no potential to aid in bringing him championships. Well maybe just a little!

Please Stop with Jason Giambi disgracing the pinstripes. There was no whispering or no physical signs that he was involved with some type of body altering substances? Of course, had they heard these whispers or opened their eyes they would not have signed him to the ridiculous contract. Of course the Yankees want to be rid of their embarrassment. Not only has he disgraced the pinstripes, He really stinks. Now that he is clean and also off fast food he brings nothing to the table for the Yankees. Had he been any good and lived up to his supposed potential, I doubt you would be hearing about the Yankees trying to null and void his contract. Do you think the San Francisco Giants will be rushing to the major League Baseball offices in the near future?

Please Start looking at what the NY Yankees, Mets, Jets LA Lakers etc. Please Start making these people what they are, Liars, thugs etc. Please Start communicating to my son and other kids that its not alright to do this stuff and that you can get away with it and it can help your performance and it will make you a lot of money. Communicate that it’s not OK to rape someone and get away with it because you have a lot of money. Please communicate to my son and others like him that these athletes are no longer role models and someone that they should look up to anymore.

That is the disgrace that you should be writing about."

Big Secret!

Big Secret!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Just before I took this, the kids were in an even tighter huddle, all intently looking at something they obviously wanted to keep to themselves.

Definitely not kosher!

Definitely not kosher!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Tuesday morning delivery. As the truck was unloading two groups of school kids went by; the younger ones were more inquisitive while the older ones (low teens) were more squimish. Both groups stopped and stared; not unlike your petting zoo in the burbs.

Anti-Gravity Crane

Anti-Gravity Crane
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

On Madison Avenue this crane seems to have conquered gravity. Either that or its owners have discovered the ever elusive skyhook.

Steamy Pike Street

Steamy Pike Street
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Actually we do live in sin city; notice the steam from hell leaking into the atmosphere.

New camera, Canon A95. My Olympus 2500 is getting long in the tooth. I have taken approximately 25,000 pictures with it and either the photoelectric stuff in the camera is getting old or the memory cards are loosing pixels, but I think the picture quality is degrading. I would get new cards, but they don't make the 64 meg smart cards anymore so I a SOL as far as that goes.

Thank god that at least some of the christian fundos of the Bush administration are leaving, most infamous Ashcroft. I have the feeling that he was left high and dry by the administration on this terrorist nonsense and the torture memos. As far as I could tell he was a nonentity during the re-election campaign; almost not heard from.

Now we must get rid of Rumsfeld and his henchmen in the Pentagon.

Rudders

Rudders
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Another walk to South Street. The rudders of both the Wavertree (background) and the Peking.

Karl Rove on a Gay Warpath

Read in the NY Daily News that Karl Rove was definitely going to push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages in this term. Wouldn't it be great if anyone who has slept with him, male or female, came forward so that this nazi could be neutralized. I have found that those that protest as much as him and his cronies and other christian fundos, are really gay and are trying to cover it up by being more anti-gay than the average person; "...methinks he doth protest too much..." (apologies to W. Shakespeare's Hamlet).

Christian Fundos are right here in New York

I am at the 34th Street Library (34th and Madison), and as a break from what I working on, I looked at Eric Hancock's blog and clicked a Thursday November 4th link he referred to (My God -- this guy can really drive [Windows Media format).
The NYPL is blocking the site because it:
"The site you are trying to access has been blocked by The New York Public Library.
El sitio que está tratando de acceder ha sido bloqueado por la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York.

Reason: 
Motivo:
The Websense category "Sex" is filtered. URL:  http://media.skoopy.com/vids/vid_00314.wmv"

The page goes on to say that: "In order for the Library to remain eligible for certain federal funding, commercial filtering software has been installed on the Library’s Internet connection. The filter is designed to protect against visual depictions of obscenity, child pornography, and materials that are “harmful to minors” and is required by the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). All Library users are expected to adhere to the Library's Policy on Public Use of the Internet.

Wired Library computers have options for users 17 years of age or older to disable the Internet filtering software to permit access to the Internet for bona fide research or other lawful purposes.

Contact the Library at filtering@nypl.org to request that a site be unblocked or to suggest that a site be blocked. Other feedback regarding filtering is also welcome."

I have read stories of local librarians engaging in subtle sabotage of the Patriot Act, but I guess New York librarians are just big pussies and have no backbone to stand up to the christian fundos. Another step closer to the "Talibanization of America".

South Street Seaport

South Street Seaport
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Multi-masted "Peking" and one of the old tugs at South Street Seaport Museum. I was down there to sit, read and have a smoothie from a stand on the third floor, but alas it has closed. On that floor they have deck chairs on the East River side of the Pier and it is nice to sit there and read.

IQ's Sallie Mae Info

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Ok, the guy won. But let us not forget what he stands for. He stands for the 17th century and witch hunts and Christian fundamentalism. He is against anything and anyone who goes against his strict reading of the bible. He is an isolationist to the nth degree and has no use for people who do not see that his cowboy mentality is the right thing to have.

Let us not allow him any quarter, but keep his feet to the fire. Let us write to him every time he mispronounces a word, fails to answer a question posed to him and most importantly lies or misrepresents the truth. We, the American People are not as dumb as the he and his henchmen (who by the way look like they want to wear the ss on their lapels) have played us to be. They put up scares before the voters and played to their most base fears. They convinced the middle americans that "they" were coming to get them and that the solution was a continuity of leadership. Unfortunately they have not exercised any leadership in their first term, only cowardice. This cowardice was presented under smoke and mirrors. This will come back to haunt him as everything that happens now is his responsibility; no more blaming the previous administration and unfortunately it will haunt and hurt us.

I can't believe that this fucking moron has been re-elected. So much for my faith in the american electorate.

What a bunch of fucking losers we are.

Wartime Footing?

Wartime Footing?
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Again along the Hudson. I can't understand what these guys are protecting me from; or are they just floating around and getting their rocks off by having a machine gun on the front and back of their boat.

I certainly don't feel any safer knowing they are guarding a walkway along the Husdon (North) River.

While Lawrence Lee is helping me recover all my past posts on my Eastbroadwayron I am using this one. It has some nice features. I like the matchup with Flickr for images and the ease of changing the basic look of the website, and the error checking.

Cruise ship going up the Hudson

Cruise ship in the river
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Battery Park city, along the promenade. This cruise ship was sailing up the Hudson.

Election Day 2004
The polls are still open in NY and across the country. For the life of me I cannot understand how it can be close. Every time I see george bush and hear him I cannot for the life of me see what a supposed 50% of the population sees in him. I only see a person surrounded by henchmen who want to complete the talibanization of the US. I think that if he wins we will see an attempt to form a mini theoracy in this country.

I have some faith in the wisdom of the American electorate, I hope I am proved correct and that we vote this bum out of office. I also feel that if we don't it will literally blow up in our faces.

Market on Arthur Avenue

Market on Arthur Avenue
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Was up at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx last Saturday. I have lived all my life in New York City and this is the first time I went up there. It is what I remember Mulberry Street to be like; not like the theme park it is now, but a real neighborhood.

Delicious Thanks

Still recovering from the iBook hard drive crash. Have recovered all the pictures, music and documents, but only 90% of the applications. Am working on finding my application disks for InDesigh 2.0 Toast 6.0 and filemaker 6.0 and 7.0; they are somewhere in the piles of CDs that have accumulated in various places; and what a pile it is.

In looking for the stuff on CD and DVD backups I discovered I have multiple copies of the same thing and I surprised myself by labeling over 60% of the disks with comprehensible information on the disks. A streak of efficiency that is surprising.

When the time comes I will restore Radio Userland and use that as the primary blog and return to this one as a supplementary one.

21st Century Setback

Not having a good technological year. First my Handspring went, then my first generation iPod went the way of all things first generation electronically. Following that my Sony disk player went along with the iPod and my iBook had a sudden hard drive crash. At least my mechnical pencil is still working.

As dumb luck would have it I did backup most of my stuff on the hard drive because I needed space on it to burn a DVD. I am not too sure about the applications, but I think I have all the serial numbers. What a pain.

Was at the bike arrests on Friday evening. It had the air of a carnival, but I think the cops thought of it as a dress rehearsal for the big show today. I did take some video (I am a better still photographer than a video person).

The NYPD had their own video people taking video of the crowd; NYPD video person #1. Here is another one NYPD video person #2.


I also took some video of some of the first bikers "perp walk."

Was at the bike arrests on Friday evening. It had the air of a carnival, but I think the cops thought of it as a dress rehearsal for the big show today. I did take some video (I am a better still photographer than a video person).

The NYPD had their own video people taking video of the crowd; NYPD video person #1. Here is another one NYPD video person #2.


I also took some video of some of the first bikers "perp walk."

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Watched Bill Clinton's speech early this morning on C-Span. It was wonderful. He could be elected again this year if he could run.

A friend of mine was visiting me from France. He wanted to go to some interesting places and I suggested that he visit the FDNY Museum, which I like very much. I used to visit it once a year and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for an off the beaten path museum. He went there and was greeted by one do the greeters, most likely a retired NYC fireman. The greeter was friendly until he asked my friend where he was from and when he heard "France" he turned away and was extremely cool to my friend; I was told it was bordering on unfriendliness at best to hostility.

Not a good impression!!! I will probably never go back there, nor will I recommend it to anyone else.

Projects:

1. Venice Biennial


2. Prescription Database


3. J-RT Homepage


4. LitIq homepage


5. FTPing to Qube1 from the outside


6. 10 minute movie Tokyo

Presently reading Good Muslim, Bad Muslim by Professor Mahmood Mamdani. My roommate was reading it today on the bus and someone asked him if the book was any good and if it was pro-Israel or anti-Israel. It is sad that any commentary on the problems of the world are contingent on whether or not they are pro or anti-Israel.