An excellent article about my home town from Pop Sci that I just couldn't resist.
From PopSci.com:

This spring the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation released the draft environmental impact statement for the Fresh Kills Park Project, their plan to turn the Fresh Kills landfill—hitherto best known as a smelly Staten Island mountain—into a world class public park. The statement will be discussed at an open public hearing on September 4th, 2008, and work begins next year on the project's first small section—wrapping around the landfill's north mound and reaching down to the waterfront. This sliver should be finished within a few years, though the park in its entirety is expected to take around 30 years to complete, with $198 million in initial funding, but much more needed along the line.

First, just let me say hello again, and, mea culpa for the extended absence. There's been some rather "interesting" personal stuff going on on the Professor's homestead. I'd also like to thank Mr. Blogins for the the post a couple of weeks ago. Having said all that, lets get back to the show.

Sorry, ladies and gents, for the lack of posts recently. There's been a lot of crazy activity around here lately. And I really appreciate your patience.
As soon as everything gets sorted out around the "office", I'll be back with more crazy commentary from the worlds of politics and pop-culture.

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Sorry for the lack of posts lately, folks. There's been a lot of stuff going on here at home.

On a happy note, things are looking up. My grandmother is doing much better and may actually be able to come home in 6 to 8 weeks. Keep your fingers crossed.

I'll try to post at least once a day from here on. Promise.

This isn't the way I wanted to start my day of posting today, but, I think it needs to be said.

My grandmother has recently fallen ill and the prognosis doesn't look good. She's currently on life support and it looks as if she might be taken off within the week.

For those of you who know me, thank you for keeping my family and I in all of your thoughts and prayers.

I'll have more as it develops.

Good Evening Dear Reader,

My name's Don, but you can call me Professor Politico (I'll get to the meaning of this name in a moment).

To start I'm a bit of an intellectual, more Penn Jillette than Nietzsche, but that's a story for another time maybe. I'm also an "Autodidact" and a voracious reader. I live for Politics and Philosophy, but hate politicians and philosophers (I have this thing about being told how to live my life). I love Science,Technology, and Design, but have no discernible computer or design skills(this post is taking the better part of an hour). And I am considered by most of the people I know to be a huge geek.

Now, to explain why I chose the name Professor Politico; The Professor part of this name comes from the endless amounts of useless information that's stored in my malformed noggin (what can I say it's a gift and a curse). The Politico part comes from my almost obsessive consumption of all things politics. Now you're saying to yourself, "Self, do I really need to read another socio-political/entertainment/technology blog? There's already a ton of them out there (BoingBoing.net comes to mind). This guy's just a small first time blogger. Could he really have anything new and unique to say?" Well I would like to think that I do have some new and unique views on politics and philosophy as well as pop culture, entertainment, and technology, but only time will tell. Do you have to read any of it? No. To be brutally honest I'm not really doing this for you, Dear Reader. I'm doing this for me. So if you like what you see and read, great. If not, that's fine too. Hopefully you'll take something away with you when( or if) you visit this site.



Regards,

Professor Politico