Miika Grady

I’ve designed a new site

It’s called Yes! and the Foul and it’s all about my ridiculous, somewhat pathetic Knicks obsession.  For 9 years they’ve been nothing but terrible and disappointing, yet I continue to hope and continue to care.  Hopefully it will look and read a little different than the usual sports site or fan blog.  It looks like this…

Yes! and the Foul

Rhys and I

, originally uploaded by alexsgrady12.

Taken by my brother Alex at Sunset Park.

18 months

playing at the park 2, originally uploaded by m11ka*.

It’s hard to believe, but he’s becoming more little boy than baby.

Thanksgiving Weekend

thanksgiving weekend, originally uploaded by m11ka*.

It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded new photos to Flickr, but there is a whole new batch from the past month now posted. Happy Holidays!

Why drilling isn’t the answer

The “drill, baby, drill” chants at the Republican Convention were nauseating not only for their crassness, but because off their incredible ignorance. Somehow, the republicans seem to think that if we just started drilling tomorrow, their would be an immediate impact and all our energy problems would be solved.

The truth of the matter is, it would take close to 10 YEARS before any new offshore oil wells would be able to produce any oil for the market, and at an incredibly marginal, minimal impact as this chart shows.
[ From: Treehugger ]
[ Chart and further info: Architecture2030 ]

Wouldn’t immediate investment in wind and solar power and promoting advancements in energy efficiency be more worthwhile than more drilling? Enough with the band-aids already. More drilling just means more money in the pockets off the oil companies that have had the republicans in their pockets since the Model-T.

Obama was just a Community Organizer

Barack Obama was only a lowly community organizer? Wow. That’s terrible. What exactly did he do? [ TIME Mag, Swampland, Joe Klein ] Afterall, Rudy Guiliani doesn’t even know what that means!

Here is the summary:

“Obama was working for a group of churches that were concerned about their parishioners, many of whom had been laid off when the steel mills closed on the south side of Chicago. They hired Obama to help those stunned people recover and get the services they needed–job training, help with housing and so forth–from the local government… Obama served the poor for three years, then went to law school.”

Joe Klein continues:

“To describe this service–the first thing he did out of college, the sort of service every college-educated American should perform, in some form or other–as anything other than noble is cheap and tawdry and cynical in the extreme.”

I couldn’t agree more. Pretty disgusting how the whole convention laughed it up when Obama’s community organizing was mocked.

More entertaining republican double-speak, thanks to Jon Stewart:

And, even nicer vacation pictures

From my brother, Alex

Me and Rhys