In The Company Of Mark Reichel, The Defense Attorney For Isaiah Fowler, I Spent Saturday In And Around

Shore and Surf, Nassau -  Winslow Homer , 1899.

American, 1836-1910

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper , 14 15/16 x 21 3/8 in. 37.9 x 54.3 cm.

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Beaanachtai’ na la’ Feile Padraig (Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)

Is all this attention turning Jill Kelley on?

Looking at the photos of Jill Kelley (the Socialite who got the ball rolling in the Petraeus scandal, not the famous porn actress) it appears that she may be finding all of this attention pretty stimulating.  It could the be cut of the material, but then again maybe not.

Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'

The last train on the last line of greater Los Angeles’ Pacific Electric streetcar network made its last run on April 9, 1961.

Between 1938 and 1950, one company purchased and took over the transit systems of more than 25 American cities. 

Their name, National City Lines, sounded innocuous enough, but the list of their investors included General Motors, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and other companies who stood to benefit much more from a future running on gasoline and rubber than on electricity and rails. 

National City Lines acquired the Los Angeles Railway in 1945, and within 20 years diesel buses – or indeed private automobiles – would carry all the yellow cars’ former passengers. Does that strike you as a coincidence?

Read the full story.

Photographs: AP (top); Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images (middle); Dan Chung for the Guardian (bottom)

This small shop is closing down and the employees are not the only ones left out in the cold.

Thank the volunteers.

To any of you who have yet to vote today, I hope that before you leave your polling place you will take a moment to thank the volunteers who help to make the process possible.

The Daily Cartoon by Paul Noth: http://nyr.kr/1hVmbCN

Inktober Day 31!!!!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!! WE MADE IT!!!!!

(Did you really think I’d go a year without drawing Morticia and Gomez?)