Laurasia:  Laurasia was a prehistoric continent that existed about 300 to 200 million years ago.  It included North America & Asia.  It invokes a time long ago, when the world was a better place.  It is said that conservatives look backward to a time long ago when things were better than today.  I always liked paleontology.  Some people insist I am a conservative.  I am more centrist or libertarian.

Gleaner:  My ex-wife was from Jamaica West Indies and often read the Jamaican Weekly Gleaner.  My use of "gleaner" is in remembrance of her.  A "gleaner" is a field worker who follows the harvesters and picks up the grain they missed.  I do not see myself as a original news harvester, but rather as a news gleaner who picks up items of interest the harvesters have missed.

I am from Staten Island, NY.  I believe this bridge is the Manhattan Bridge, which connects Brooklyn to Manhattan.