I’ve had a lot on my mind lately, and I hope I get a chance to sift through it on here over the next few days. In the meantime, there’s one incident stuck on my mind.
It happened the other day when one of my students got caught with his finger [...]
I’ve had a lot on my mind lately, and I hope I get a chance to sift through it on here over the next few days. In the meantime, there’s one incident stuck on my mind.
It happened the other day when one of my students got caught with his finger [...]
Slate.com has sponsored a writing contest for those who would aspire to Sarah Palin’s literary apex. The winners have been announced and you can view them here, but for your masochistic pleasure, I have brought the 1st place winner to RT in order to whet your appetite [...]
Courtesy Marquil at Empirewire.com.
Consider this today’s open thread, and check out a new site PinkBFLO: Our City, Only Gayer. KTHXBAI
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Photograph of Mark Sanchez after diving by David Duprey/AP
You'll recall the brouhaha sparked by the video of a cop body-slamming a man off his bicycle back in the summer of '08; the officer lost his job and the cyclist, Christopher Long, filed a fat lawsuit. Well, the Post is quick [...]
Now that the big speech is over might want to review Middle and far east expert Professor Juan Cole’s take. Specifically, how the new escalation can come off the rails.
Read the whole thing but here are some highlights of the ten concerns he has. Pay attention to #5
1. Obama’s [...]
I found a new blogspot called Brains and Eggs. They have a wonderful group of responses to the president’s 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan. Among them was Eric Massa’s response:
And I would have to ask a question: Why 30,000 troops and not 40? Why 30,000 troops and [...]
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I love the Christmas season…enjoy!
[...]I am an unapologetic METALHEAD….
This song by DIO rocks…Vivian Campbell’s solo is a tasty jam.
[...]It’s over with with Zelonis anyway, now we just have to get those tolls down. I won’t stop until they are and Thompson and Luh investigated for coercion and screwing the public.
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The fired Grand Island Bridge toll collector who sent threatening e-mails to an anti-toll activist on the Island pleaded [...]
From a blogger’s perspective, the one good result in the wake of the defeat of marital equality is the wealth of opportunity. There are so many possible angles just begging to be explored.
Some gay activists are now busy outing an allegedly gay State Senator who voted against marital equality. [...]
MTV ShowsOh, David Cross, not since your never-nude turn on Arrested Development have you shined like this. Sure, the audience at the MTVu "Woodie Awards" -- ahem, whatever the hell that is* -- ...
Continue reading "David Cross Endorses Scientology In a Way Only He Can" > [...]I was not the only citizen of the Marine Park community who was shocked at Carl Kruger's vote of "No" on the gay marriage bill. I am quite frankly sick of Kruger's antics. When the Democrats won control of the senate, and he was one of the Senator's holding up [...]
James Eterno, Jamaica High School's UFT chapter leader. (GothamSchools Flickr)
The head of the union chapter at Jamaica High School said teachers there have been expecting the school’s closure for years and criticized the city for planning to open new small schools without offering help to [...]
Just in time for the Holidays, A Reason to BE THANKFUL and have GRATITUDE and STOP bitchin'!
A leader of a major Mexican drug cartel and former Texas police officer was sentenced in Manhattan federal court yesterday for importing at least 200 tons of cocaine into the United States during ...
Continue reading "Former Texas Cop Indicted in New York for Moving 200" [...]
Recently the Riese Organization took over 34 Union Square East... the old Zen Palate space. Sigh. And what's going up in its place? The much rumored T.G.I. Friday's and a Tim Horton's of course, helping to complete the circle of chains around the [...]
TVNewser: The Washington Post reports that George Stephanopoulos has been offered the co-anchor position on "Good Morning America" to replace Diane Sawyer as she leaves for "World News."
WWD: In the midst of a recession that has hit the high-end advertising market pretty hard, luxury pub [...]
State Senator Diane Savino, who represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, is getting praise for her speech in favor of gay marriage during the ultimately unsuccessful vote in the Senate yesterday.
She pointed out, "We're giving away husbands on a TV show," referred to' [...]
Job-seekers: The skill in the third sentence is the sort of thing you may be tempted to lie about, but we have a hunch that if you do, this employer will ask you to spar. Don't be afraid to say...
Continue reading "Craigslist Help Wanted Highlights:'" [...]
trippchicago's Flickr The deficit-reduction plan passed by the State Legislature yesterday cut $140 million from the authority's operating budget, which is more than the $110 million that was originally anticipated. Bus and subway fares are already expected to rise 7.5 percent [...]
I’ll be Brad Riter’s guest on our partner WECK1230 AM each Wednesday at 4PM. We’ll talk about politics, rumors, media, local news and why Chris Collins hates black people. You can call in at 716.783.9325 or send me your questions via Twitter @buffalogeek
Yesterday we [...]
Wondering what the new Bloomberg BusinessWeek will look like?
Turns out, not that different from pre-Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The latest cover from the new pub is above, and compared to one from a few weeks ago, there's not much of a difference -- save for the addition [...]
Jamaica High School, a long-beleaguered school in central Queens, is among four more schools the Department of Education today said it would phase out beginning at the end of the school year.
The other schools are the School for Community Research and Learning, a Bronx high school; the Academy for [...]
The lovely and talented Miss Amanda Palmer emailed us this morning with a video of her lip-dubbing (or as she calls it: a "karaoke verité" of) Tegan and Sara's song "Hell," filmed all over Union Square and parts of Brooklyn. She actually seems to have managed to frighten some [...]
Earlier this week, Queens resident David Brown was found guilty of sex trafficking, kidnapping and other charges in Queens Supreme Court. Apparently, Brown paid his ex-girlfriend $2,000 to "purchase" a woman and posted nude photographs of the victimized 19-year-old on Craigslist—and he's the first convicted [...]
Gov. David Paterson’s plan to close the remaining state budget gap by withholding local aid funds could land him in court facing off against plaintiffs including the Legislature.
On Monday evening, the governor said he had directed the Division of the Budget to deny certification for local assistant payments already [...]
We got a tip yesterday about an errant driver hogging a curbside spot in a residential area:
So, outside my house is a street with two hour parking. Today a Jaguar with dealer plates was parked there all day. [...]
A State Court of Appeals decided this afternoon that New York State was wrong to grant Columbia University eminent domain rights that enabled it to seize land from property owners whose busines...
Continue reading "Court Deals Blow to Columbia's $6.3 Billion Harlem Land Grab (Updated)" > [...]
Yesterday, the 17-year-old who involved in the killing of her friend's kitten—the cat died in a 500-degree oven— agreed to a two-year jail sentence, as well as not being able to own a pet for three years after her release.
The [...]
I just read the story in the D&C that one of Mayor Bob Duffy’s employees is accused of raping a woman while he was working on the clock. Here is a portion of the story.
A city employee accused of raping a female while working last week pleaded not guilty in City Court today.
Luis [...]
Click on the images for details on this week's new restaurants and bars, which include Baba, Ofrenda, Vintry Wine & Whiskey, and The Norry at Kampuchea—plus news on this weekend's free Ketel One Canteen, Marfa's terrific [...]
We believe it was Rudolph Giulliani, in one of his rare flashes of genuine wit, who called OTB the only bookie in the world that didn't make money. As state auditors predicted this summer, OTB has...
Continue reading "OTB Goes Bankrupt, But Will Remain Open" > ' [...]
Busta Rhymes has been busted for many things, and often gets of scott free. But not today! The NY Post reports that a Brooklyn judge ordered the rapper to pay $75,000 to a fan, Alex Duncan, that he assaulted at a 2003 [...]
Graphic: NYC Department of HealthThe NYC Department of Health announced the results of a citywide survey today [PDF] assessing the health benefits of regular walking and biking. Based on telephone interviews with more than 10,000 New Yorkers, the health department reveals that [...]
More than week after Mayor Bloomberg handed Chancellor Joel Klein a to-do list of items anathema to the teachers union, UFT president Michael Mulgrew is promising a fight.
In an email sent to United Federation of Teachers members this afternoon, Mulgrew said the mayor’s proposals will “damage the schools and [...]
A bicyclist using the dedicated lanes in Manhattan for five or six blocks will find a vehicle in the way 60% of the time, according to a new survey released by Hunter College. The report found that most vehicles obstructing bike lanes do so [...]
One day after former BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler was named editorial director of Thomson Reuters' Professional division, Dow Jones reports that the media company will lay off 240 employees from one of that division's sub-sectors.
According to Dow Jones, the cuts will' [...]
Last December, the Empire State Development Corporation decided to use eminent domain to seize land in West Harlem for Columbia's ambitious Manhattanville development. (NY State officially "blighted" the 17 acres in July 2008.) But now a state appellate courts has [...]
This shaky surveillance video shows an unidentified man brazenly slashing the tires of three NYPD Parking Enforcement cars in broad daylight on Monday in Parkchester. (It was either very windy out, or the surveillance cam was afraid it would be slashed next, because it can't stop trembling!) The cars were' [...]
Well, perhaps not verbatim, but per Liz, Joe Bruno's favorite Democrat didn't manage to slink away quickly enough to escape teh gays.
After voting "no" on the gay marriage bill yesterday, Sen. Carl Kruger exited the Senate chamber and walked straight into the buzzsaw that was Allen Roskoff and
The time has come. After being found guilty of misdemeanor assault after slashing his girlfriend in the face last December, state Sen. Hiram Monserrate will be sentenced tomorrow. Monserrate faces up to a year in jail for his misdemeanor, [...]
We have to admit, we laughed when we read the Advance headline, "Staten Island senator faces backlash over same-sex marriage vote." Backlash? In Staten Island? Where "the first openly gay club i...
Continue reading "Advance Sees Gay Marriage Backlash; From Where? We Ask" >
Photograph of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers (left) and uninvited guests Michaele and Tareq Salahi from the AP The director of the Secret Service told Congress, "I take responsibility" for the fame-seeking, aspiring reality TV show couple that managed to get [...]
USA TODAY travel editor Chris Gray Faust was one of the 26 people given the boot by the national newspaper this week.
Today, Faust says goodbye to her "dream job" in a post on The Huffington Post, the likes of which are becoming [...]
Zeldin's campaign got a boost because Foley [...]
A Queens community has been battling a strip club's billboard all year, and the Daily News says judgment day is on the way. The locals allegedly have no problem with the Platinum Club on Rockaway Blvd, it's their sign they to destroy. [...]
A possible City Council vote on the controversial Bronx Kingsbridge Armory project was postponed Thursday, pushing the matter back at least a few more days. The Subcomittee on Zoning and Franchises has recessed until Monday, Dec. 7. They could vote then, or push back the matter until [...]
