I’ve been meaning to post this photo for some time now but I’ve never quite gotten around to it. I took this picture in Peru last fall, during a walk in the hills around Cuzco. The people I was with told me that this man was headed to a village a good distance away. We met him around 3pm or 4pm, which meant that he would have been walking with his donkey for most of that night.

Like many other people in Peru he would chew coca leaves to stave off hunger and to keep himself awake. But what I still can’t understand is how he would see. The hills were pretty steep at times and there was no real path to speak of.

The Tomorrow’s Pioneers story so far: Farfur, Hamas TV’s Mickey Mouse lookalike, was beaten to death by an Israeli interrogator. His replacement, a bumblebee called Nahoul, fell ill and was denied access to a hospital in Egypt and died. Now, Farfur and Nahoul have been replaced by Assud, the Jew-eating, martyrdom-loving bunny wabbit. God, is indeed great! (Via Anorak.)

Related:
Tomorrow’s Pioneers (Wikipedia)
Hamas Launches TV Bugs Bunny-Lookalike Who Declares ‘I Will Eat The Jews.’ (Daily Mail)

New York Magazine’s John Heilemann has some sobering thoughts for the Clinton campaign after last night’s defeats:

The impact of Obama’s Maryland-Virginia-D.C. trifecta could hardly have been more damaging or deflating for Clinton and her team. For two weeks, the Clinton people had been laboring feverishly to lower expectations, telling any reporter in earshot that they expected to win none of the primaries that took place last night. But no amount of pre-spinning could soften the blow of losing a trio of contests by 23, 29, and 51 points (in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C., respectively) — especially coming on the back of a weekend in which Obama had soundly thrashed Clinton in four states plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. Even more distressing for Clinton’s side were the signs that Obama had eaten into her bedrock of support. That he’d beaten her among white voters and folks earning less than $50,000 a year in Virginia. That he’d done the same among union households and white Catholics in Maryland.

By now, of course, you’re savvy enough to understand that what really matters is the delegate count. And you know that, because of the principle of proportionality that governs the Democratic race, it’s hard for either side to pull away — except, that is, in the case of an absolute shellacking. But a shellacking is precisely what Obama administered to Clinton on Tuesday and in the elections over the weekend. Indeed, for the first time since Iowa, BHO is ahead of HRC in terms of committed delegates. He’s even ahead, by most counts, after super-delegates are factored in. According to Chuck Todd, the political director at NBC, for Clinton to regain her lead will require her to win more than 55 percent of the delegates up for grabs in the nineteen states that still remain to vote, which means carrying the states where she has a shot with roughly 60 percent of the vote.

Related:
Hillary’s Bleak Outlook (New York Mag)

I found this image of the English football team giving a Nazi salute during a friendly match in Berlin, 1938, quite astonishing given England’s pride at opposing (and single-handedly defeating!) Nazism in Europe. According to Alex Massie the team was “ordered by British athletic officials to give the salute in the spirit of being gracious guests.” Which I suppose goes a long way towards explaining why they did it. After all, one wouldn’t want to offend one’s host, would one?

It’s been a little chilly here today as you can see from this photo taken by Macintosh Lad on 7th Avenue in Park Slope.