Seems like we'll be a small, intrepid group. Here's our tentative route, as of now, via Bulldog:

Meet at South Ferry – Battery Park 10 am, Sat. Oct. 18

Fraunces Tavern 54 Pearl Street
North to NYSE, Trinity Place, WTC
Turn east to South Street Seaport
North and West To City Hall and Brooklyn Bridge
North to Five Points
Chinatown  (At this point, just walking, we’ve covered 3.7 and it’s taken 1 hour 16 minutes without stops.  I figure about 2 ½ hours with stops.   So it would be about noon, good time for a snack if we start at 10am)
West to Soho
Cooper Union
McSorley’s  (assuming we’ve made some stops, pictures, chatted, noodles in Chinatown it would be about 1pm)
Washington Square Park, West Village (Stonewall Inn??  Shelagh thought that would be a funny stop to make given the overall political bend of Maggie’s)
White Horse Tavern
Union Square
Gramercy Park
Flatiron  (By now, we’ve covered 8.7 miles and it would be about 3 or 3:30 if we stop at McSorley’s)
Empire State Building
NY Public Library
Times Square
Carnegie Hall
Columbus Circle  (assuming stops, it would be 4:30-5pm now and we’ve covered 11 miles)

When Columbus came back to Spain with news of the West Indies, it was no big deal and of little interest in Europe. They found no spices.

Bruegel’s Hunting Dogs

Red Bull Settles False Advertising Lawsuit for $13 Million Because It Actually Doesn’t Give You Wings

The Trouble with Physics – Another branch of science captured by groupthink

They must have thought the guy was insane

The goal for some liberals, like medieval ascetics, is to live off only
cabbages that have been certified to have died a natural death.

The high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence

The Value of a College Degree is Falling

Biden prays for gun violence

"Why Do New York Restaurants Suck?" - The Surprising Answer

NYC has wonderful restaurants. It's the customers who suck

The Manhattan apartment with the furthest distance from the subway

Spinning out of control: Why voter doubt of big government is on the rise

From Mid-Atlantic to Midwest, Voters Express Frustration and Fatigue

They have been trained to expect too much from government

Men Have Depended on the Government for Centuries—So Why Shouldn't Women Do the Same?

California Law Requires Doctors To Undergo LGBT Re-education

Will: Rent Seeking: America’s National Pastime - A North Carolina case before the Supreme Court could strike a blow against the practice.

U.S. military faces new kind of threat with Ebola:

 Captain Alex Willard, who was undergoing the training, said the West Africa mission was far different than the kinds of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan than many in the 101st "probably are more comfortable with."

Susan Collins says it’s too late to repeal Obamacare; Mark Levin responds

Conservatives' rhetorical disadvantage

Antarctic Sea Ice Sees Record Growth, Cause Climate Change

SHHH, NO ONE TELL THE ANTI-KEYSTONE PIPELINE NUTS: Canadian Oil Exports to U.S Hit Record High

Plotting an American-Style Fracking Revolution in Britain

War against Isis: US air strategy in tatters as militants march on

He wants to crush Amazon

On the other hand, What in the World Is Amazon? It's not a monopoly. It's a behemoth fighting for its life in a world of giants.

Gwyneth Paltrow: It Would Be Wonderful If We Could Give Obama All The Power That He Needs

Are Cell Phones the New Cigarettes? Do you have an addiction and not even realize it?

Everyone should email like a boss

Fruit juice is bad for you

The sharing economy, Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction, and my top 10 interesting facts about Airbnb

When Vanderleun left NYC

The Turner Prize is an example not of the art world’s daring but its rancid exhaustion.

Feminist Hysteria: Infantilizing or Empowering?

 People often tell me that feminist dogma often backfires and makes women look ineffective. But looking ineffective is not a problem for many women. They see it as an asset and it is a form of power.

Ross Douthat Loves Lena Dunham for All the Wrong Reasons

Unlike Machiavelli’s The Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince isn’t usually on reading lists for
policymakers and international relations scholars. But it should be.

Sultan:  The Progressive Missionaries of Unhappiness

In a stunning reversal, the Australian Labor Party bails out on the ‘carbon tax’

Jesse Jackson: Racism Played Role in Ebola Patient's Death

The Muslim Plan for Australia and Then the World

Global Alert From Chongqing: Foxconn Strike Is An Epochal Inflection Point

French say au revoir to France - Opposition convinced people are leaving because of 'the impression that it’s impossible to succeed'

100,000 Libyans flee fighting near Tripoli, UNHCR says

When Bombs Aren’t Enough

Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like The Perfect 'Kondratieff Winter' Storm Ahead

Stop Hating on Divas

This 29-Year-Old Woman Has Chosen to Die.

New at the pot shop: Milder marijuana for novices

How Are the Boy Scouts Doing in American Cities?

When Your Rabbi Comes Out as Gay

Philly School Reformers to Teacher Union: The War Is On

Raisins:  Uncle Sam’s Vestigial Feudalism

Vestigial?

Seattle Liberals Will Look Through Your Trash and Fine You if You Throw Away Food

Polio-like illness claims fifth life in U.S

Duncan Family Plays the Race Card After Ebola Patient Zero Dies

PPACA to prompt decline in employer-provided health coverage

Fernandez on paradigm shift:

...Obama’s not without ideas. He’s full of ideas, all of them out of date. All of them from the last century’s paradigms. He wanted to become like European social democracy at the very moment when it finally collapsed into the dust-bin of history. He hankered after the ideals of ‘progressivism’ when it had already become reactionary. He is like a man who has saved all his life to buy a pair of bell-bottomed pants only to reach the required sum just when they were 40 years out of style.  He’s at the store looking to buy them and can’t find them on the rack.

Krugman on Obama's successes

The Liberal Case for Effective Immigration Law Enforcement

France Crushes Socialist Welfare Dream, Admits "Living Beyond Its Means" For 40 Years

As World Deals With Ebola And ISIS, John Kerry To Focus On More Important Stuff

Western Fear of Angering Turkey Leaves Besieged Kurdish Town at Mercy of Islamic State

A sad, slow death of General Theological Seminary

Beautiful garden campus in NYC

Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) Guide for the Perplexed, 2014

There's this via Drudge: The vaginal orgasm doesn't exist - it's the clitoris that holds the key to female pleasure

"The other night shows included a tedious-looking ensemble that played covers of Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Who, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, and several other bands I'd try to hurt if I ever encountered them."

In Defense of Male Aggression: What Liberals Get Wrong About Football

Menu for Obamas: No Butter!

Why?

Cleveland School Dumps FLOTUS Lunches for Chipotle-Style Burritos and Clam Chowder

Study Shows Legalizing Pot in Colo. Was ‘Reckless’

Wrong. People who want it buy it taxed or untaxed

Having Students Pay for College is Socially Unjust

How and Why American Universities Hate America

Nebraska School Tells Teachers To Avoid ‘Gendered Expressions’

Desperate: Two All-Female Colleges Prepare to Enroll Male ‘Transgender’ Students

Too many Asians:  Making Merit Subjective - The de Blasio administration floats a proposal to water down the admissions test to the city’s specialized high schools.

Pantywaist panic in men, says Insty

Fearfulness is not becoming in men

Internet Trolls Really Are Psychos

But Of Course, Record Antarctic Ice Is a Sign of Global Warming Too

Why everybody is moving to Texas

Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Gender Differences in Marriageability

Why legal polygamy is inevitable

Why is it illegal?

Dear CDC: You had just one job

CDC: We Could Have Done a Better Job on Ebola If We Just Had More Money

Obama never made management a high priority — and it shows.

Iranian Woman Faces Death on Wednesday for Killing Alleged Rapist

Stalking Victim Begged Cops For Help 120 Times Before Being Stabbed 8 Times

Needed a firearm

Life in America: Gypsy Retail in the Texas Autumn

This is Why Running a Service Business is Hard

At Insty: 

LIKE SO MANY HAPPENINGS IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, IF YOU PUT THIS IN A NOVEL IT WOULD SEEM CRUDE AND UNREALISTIC: Obama slams billionaires at the home of a guy named Rich Richman. Who is . . . wait for it, wait for it . . . rich!

China currency push takes aim at dollar

"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

America In Crisis and POTUS Won’t Lead: Former Officials Seem “Scared,” Worried,” “Alarmed”

October 2014 Out of Control? Consider October 1944

E.U. Austerity, You Must Be Kidding

More on the phony “end of liberal Zionism” narrative

A range of perspectives, but all anti-Israel UCLA center uses federal funds to promote pro-Palestinian views

If Islam is a religion of peace, what sort of peace does it bring?

Want to know why Catalans want to leave the loving embrace of Spain?

When Night Fell In Indochina

Misrepresenting Atrocities: "Kill Anything that Moves" and the Continuing Distortions of the War in Vietnam

How Radicals Hijacked Environmentalism

Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety and Must Be Replaced Now

Schools Ban Swings Because Everything Is Dangerous

Eggs?  This Unhinged Woman’s Tearful Rant Will Change Your Mind About Food Forever, or Something

Judgemental map of Seattle

Why Charities Collect and Sell Used Clothing and Shoes

NASA Scientists Puzzled by Global Cooling on Land and Sea

Obama: 'There’s A Sense ... The World Is Spinning So Fast and Nobody Is Able To Control It'

Mark Udall Says He Supports Abortion During the Eighth Month of Pregnancy

The Siege Of Kobani: Obama’s Syrian Fiasco In Motion

Hong Kong: The party and the people

FBI Director Raves That ISIS Terrorists Are “Entitled” to Return to USA

Panetta: '30-year war' and a leadership test for Obama

Where is the Case for Co-Ed Ground Combat?

Hilton selling the Waldorf

Nobel Prize for work on brain's navigation system

Standards for a school Diversity Leader

Lambeth Conference Postponement Spells More Uncertainty For Anglicans

The Left’s Religion of Unhappiness

"You have to lie to win elections."

The decomposition of the Obama presidency has created what Obama might call a teachable moment.

Mead on sex:

I’m sick of it all, especially the obsessions of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, whose editors seem to have great difficulty getting their heads out of their, or other people’s, crotches. I am unashamedly old-fashioned: I think public discussion of intimate sexual matters is unseemly, a word that has become as quaint as outlandish mass-culture fare has become hideously sexualized. I don’t care if the subject to hand is essentially heterosexual in nature, or homosexual, transsexual, omnisexual, multisexual, interspecies-sexual, or all the other kinds of sexual that I’m sure exist but know nothing about. I could not give a damn what consenting adults do with their genitalia in private, but I don’t need or want to hear about it in public—and these days you nearly have to hole up in a mountain cave somewhere to escape it.

Caifornia drought: "Nobody Has Any Idea How Disastrous It's Going To Be"

ISIL Within Shelling Range of Baghdad Airport

Gerard Vanderleun refers to this sort of thing as a "Manhattan Death March."

We have some takers. We'll definitely start at 10 AM at South Ferry. Rain or shine.

Even though we are only doing parts of southern Manhattan, we are going to try to keep the walking distance under 11 miles, and the time under 7 hours (including stops). Lots of meandering (and lots of street crossings which slow things down a lot).

We'll have to delete some things from our wish list but if people like it - and survive it - we can do a different route next year.

Can you identify that cool building?  Answer below the fold -

Fewer men are working, and marriage is dying.

Assisted Suicide 'Out of Control' in Netherlands

Sultan:  Science is for Stupid People

Hailing the First 'Great' Transgender TV Show

Steyn: Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No

Thomas Jefferson’s Folly - California’s worst-performing law school illustrates the moral hazard of federal student loans.

Please don't vote. The biggest fans of "democracy" treat this orgy of vacuous lever pulling as if it were sacred or patriotic. It's neither.

Canada: I’m an adult. Stop nudging me

 Planners have tried all kinds of incentives to get us to cycle more. Toronto has built dedicated bike lanes, as well as semi-dedicated lanes (a safety menace, in my view). It even invested in a money-losing bike-share program. Sadly, though, I’m no more inclined to ride a bike than ever. My reasons are pedestrian: Sweatiness, helmet hair, inability to pick up dinner and 10 kilograms of cat litter on the way home. And the weather, which is crummy half the year.

But mostly, I enjoy not having my teeth knocked out.

Every single thing this president has tried has failed

The Dark Side of Green Justice - Review: ‘Law of the Jungle’ by Paul Barrett

 “I once worked for a lawyer who said something that I have never forgotten,” Donizger recalled in another outtake. “‘Facts do not exist. Facts are created.’ Ever since that day, I realized how the law works.”

Dutch Military Retreats Before... Tweets!

White House Can't Hide Look Into Koch Tax Data Misuse

OBAMA FORCED OUT INTEL CHIEF WHO WARNED ABOUT WEAK IRAQI ARM

Hamas disarming? Forget about it, says top IDF intel officer

Remember this good vid? It's not about the nail!

Ex-mayor Bloomberg was asked why he decided to go back to his job running Bloomberg. His reply: "I could stay home listening to Elaine talk about her feelings, or go back to work. Now, what would you do?"

What's a Grandma Pie? And Where Can You Find One?

How to improve your memory

Is this the baseball glove of the future?

Which sports teams should transgender students play on?

A "Misc." team? I can picture that.

5 simple ways to “age-proof” your body before it starts breaking down

A gal to avoid: I Don’t Want to Marry a Man Who Will Feed Our Kid McDonald’s

Disgusting food, occasionally necessary

‘It’s Science’ Has Become the New ‘it’s Gospel’

Five Reasons Americans Can't Find Jobs

Welcome to Illinois, the state that doesn't work

BATTERED, BEREAVED, AND BEHIND BARS  -Arlena Lindley’s boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? A BuzzFeed News Investigation.

4 Years Later, Fed Critics Explain Why Central Planning Still Doesn't Work

It’s official: no global warming for 18 years 1 month

Why That Guy Keeps Reminding You He Went to an Ivy League School

It's called marketing, branding

It's Insulting to Women to Suggest They're Interested in Weddings, Dresses, and Other Girly Things!

Modern girls love trucks, modern boys love dresses

Forget Secession. Americans Want to Boot California From the Union.

Hmmm. Expulsion?

Obama Sent Emissary To Tehran in 2008 To Assure Mullahs He Was A Friend To Iranian Regime

How Low Can It Go? Oil Benchmark Hits 28-Month Low

Labor Participation Rate Drops To 36 Year Low; Record 92.6 Million Americans Not In Labor Force

Gotta like Rand Paul

Dick Morris Tells Hannity: Obama Pushing for One-Party Rule

Isn't that power what parties strive for?

Psychologists try to figure out how to alarm people about global warming

Ebola Expert Demands Americans Die for White Guilt

Is Germany Planning to Ban Work Emails After 6 P.M.?

What a great idea - unless you're in management. Idiots.

Average IQ by nations, via  Important Ebola Note

The list might explain why there are so many Singaporean software developers in the US. They are in high demand.

The President of Inequality : Policies Promoting Equality Over Growth Have Damaged Both.

Who brought the Arabs to this nadir?

Daddy Longlegs Have a Secret Hunting Weapon: Glue

Staged: The Stage World of Ricky and Lucy

The Feminizing Of Culture, And Male Self-Hatred

You Call This Thai Food? The Robotic Taster Will Be the Judge

Women earned majority of doctoral degrees in 2013 for 5th straight year, and outnumber men in grad school 137.5 to 100

Obligatory Al Sharpton Celebrates ‘National Breast Awareness Month’ Post…

I thought that was every month

Not Everyone Can Work for Costco

Media: On the chilling effect, from one of the chillers

UK update: New drug for 'mild alcoholics' drinking two glasses of wine a night

My internist instructed me to drink 2 per evening, for my heart

“How Would Making Donald Trump Less Rich Make Anybody Else Better Off?”

Goldberg on "the wrong side of history"

Russia update: When government protects the environment

UN whistleblowers (still) exposed to retaliation

How Iran Scammed America Out of a Nuclear Deal

Obama Gets His Progressive "War"

Horror as an Instrument of War

New York Times op-ed: Wipe Israel off the map

Life and death with Hamas

Louisiana Is Disappearing Into the Sea - And guess who's blocking efforts to save the land

Political disputes in ancient Athens

I like this term "knee-pad journalism"

Lena Dunham Warns Women GOP Could Affect Your Sex Life

Romney on 2016: “We’ve got a lot of people looking at the race. We’ll see what happens.”

Navy sailors distrust commanders, fear crippling political correctness

University of New Mexico to Host ‘Threesome’ Sex Workshop for Sex Week

Why stop at 3?

Top US Doctor: Illegal Immigrant Children May Be Spreading Mysterious Respiratory Disease

California Sends in the Sex Police

Vermont: Job Losses Adding Up in America’s Most Liberal State

Liberals Call for New Constitution

How Liberals Became the New Book Banners - The First Amendment is under fire from the progressive left.

Government Desperation Is Increasing

The silly, selective ‘war on women

A decade after welcoming wind, states reconsider

Slow But Certain Integration in Israel - There's more promise for improved Arab-Israeli relations than you think.

Why State Dept. Defends UNRWA's Artificial "Refugee" Designations

Why Is America Wasting the F-22 Raptor on Bombing ISIS?

Germany's military doesn't just choose not to act. It can't act.

Islamic State Using Human Shields

America's Big Military Mistake: Cutting Land Forces Too Quickly

Should Girls Ask Guys Out?

Of course - especially shy guys

Where's the Proof in Science? There Is None

Why Eating McDonald's Is Completely 'Natural'

5 creatures you never want to meet on your run – and what to do if you do

Is the college diploma a sign of advanced skills or just a screening technique?

How Not to Be Poor

Northeast loses 40% of House seats as people flee high-tax states

The Gelded Age - The inequality bed-wetters are misleading you.

NYT: To Solve Climate Change, The Economy Must Change:

 Klein argues, we need to break free of market fundamentalism and implement long-term planning, strict regulation of business, more taxation, more government spending and reversals of privatization to return key infrastructure to public control.

Jay Carney May Be Off the White House Payroll, But He’s Still on the Team

My Aggravating Year With Obamacare

Carpe:  Some commentary on campus sexual assault

Abbas incites, and we're to blame?