Friday, October 30, 2009

World Series 2009 Game 2

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We won! Yankees beat the Phillies 3-1 last night in da ' Bronx! Now the series is tied 1-1. Fingers crossed that the Yankees win it in...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

World Series 2009 Game 1

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Yankees lost 6-0 to Philly. CC Sabathia had a bad night. Yankee hitting had a bad night. Cliff Lee had a good night. Phillies hitting had ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

General Election Endorsements

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Next Tuesday we New Yorkers head to the polls for the final time this year to elect the officials who will run our city for the next four ye...

Gotta Love New Yorkers

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Standing on the subway platform, waiting for the train home. Man and woman walk by, wearing African garb. Woman says to man, "Blacks ar...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

SOUPY SALES: Green Pieces of Paper

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Last week a New York legend, comedian Soupy Sales , died at age 83. One of the last of the great comedians in the mold of Jack Benny and the...

This WOULD be a scandal ...

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... if the Mayor of New York City was a Democrat or someone not named Mike Bloomberg. Newark Mayor Backed Bloomberg, Then Got Funds But when...

HERE!

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Sorry for the lack of blogging these last few days, I was stalled by a lousy Internet connection and a even lousier service provider who too...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Mike: Then and Now

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When Michael Bloomberg became the 108 th Mayor of the City of New York on January 1st, 2002, a lot of people wondered "Why?" Why...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Sleaze in the '70s in NYC

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The popular imagination has it that NYC in the 1970s was a sleazy place full of hookers and porno theaters and creepy guys in leisure suits ...

The Most Recession Resistant 'Hood in NYC ...

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... is Astoria! My very own neck o' da woods! At least according to Crain's New York Business it is. And I'm sure they know...