It just struck me that had history gone differently – drastically, drastically differently- we could right now be coming to the end of Bob Dole’s second term as president. At 81 years old, he’d be the oldest president in American history.

Things that make you think…

Gothamist interviews Uffish (my blog friend and also the creator of WYSIWYG).

You seem pretty immersed in the blog world, and to go back a ways with some prominent bloggers such as Choire Sicha and Jonno. How do you think the blog world has changed in the last three years, and have those changes been positive or negative?

There are a LOT more people doing it now, for starters. It used to be that we’d have these get-togethers with all the queer bloggers in New York and just about everyone knew each other…

This resonated with me. I miss those old Homo Blog Nerd gatherings. There are so many New York gay blog nerds now that it would be impossible to meet all of them.

Still, I’m more than a little envious of this party.

What I saw this morning in the lobby of the state office building where I work: a cart holding a stack of framed photographs of ex-Governor Jim McGreevey, which had all been taken down from the walls. The old guy pushing the cart said, “And I still have a few more floors to go.”

I really wish I’d had a camera on me.