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Augusten Burrough's Running with Scissors. I'm going to crack it open tonight.' [...] 
The other day, as I was driving to my job to pick up a personal item, I got slapped with a $115 parking ticket for "obstructing traffic at the intersection." It's so unfair: The light was green when I entered the intersection on 47th street and [...] 
Cop in the Hood is a blog written by John Jay College Professor Peter Moskos. He's the author of Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District. Go check it out. He's right about Bill Bratton.' [...] 
Go read the New York Times on Charlie Rangel's "serial ethical messes." You can read what I said about Charlie Rangel's unpaid taxes and the villa he owns in DR here. [...] 
"At some point, you have to stop looking at party and start looking at progress," -- Newark Mayor Cory Booker. [...] 
Sounds like fun. Thinking about buying it for my Xbox 360. And methinks a movie on this would be a really big hit. [...] 
Wow. That's how much Mayor Mike Bloomberg has spent on his campaign so far. And, according to last week's Quinnipiac University poll, he's leading Thompson by 16 points.' [...] 
A good friend of mine (Puerto Rican Cotto fan) found the article offensive and humorless. Meh. I didn't find it offensive at all. I don't know why people let stuff like this bother them. It's a humor piece (kinda childish though) penned by a Manny' [...] 
Newt Gingrich has created a bilingual news/opinion site for Hispanic Americans (courting swing voters). Me: I thought bilingualism was the language of living in a ghetto? [...] 
Ezra Klein said here a while back that D.C. is "a bit bereft of good Latin food." Man, that sucks. It's another reason why I think DC needs a Cuchifritos.
1.The Bronx (Columbia History of Urban Life)by Evelyn Gonzalez. This is my first book on the history of the Bronx. I'm halfway through. Lots of information. References abound. The author "argues that it was not racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, or big government that was to'" [...] 
"I didn't invent that; it's in the constitution," -- Pedro Espada Jr., telling reporters on Wednesday why, because he's now the Senate's president pro tempore, he's two Senators with two votes.' [...] 
Anderson Cooper is going to be be exploring marijuana and its use in the United States this week. The special report begins today at 10 p.m. You don't want to miss it if the subject is of interest to you.
Big story yesterday in the New York Times: G.O.P. Regains Control of New York State Senate. [...] 
Efrain Ortiz asks: Who is Tom Tancredo?
Good job by the FBI and NYPD:Four men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near a synagogue and community center and plotting to shoot down a military plane were bent on carrying out a jihad against America, authorities said Thursday. Video. [...] 
White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs'. I think it's a step in the right direction. My deep thoughts on the subject in the not-too-distant future.' [...] 
The sequel to the movie is now out on DVD and Blu-ray. Meh. I mean, who likes this movie anyway? Donnie Darko is a flick about a very smart yet disturbed teenager who hallucinates about a 6-foot-tall creepy bunny rabbit and fluid light tunnels. That's' [...] 
Saw it yesterday. Great flick. Acting, dialogue, pacing, special effects, etc. -- all really, really good. You must see it -- and I'm speaking as someone who had never seen Star Trek before.' [...] 
The program seems like a good idea to get some guns off the streets, and obviously some guns off the streets is better than no guns off the streets. But the operation doesn't strike me as a solution to reduce gun crime in New York' [...] 
Regular blogging will resume later this evening. It's going to be difficult folks, but I think it's feasible. You all already know what you're going to get from me: current events, policy, culture and pretty much whatever strikes my fancy.' [...] 
Shorter Michael Steele:We gotta reach out to blacks and Hispanics. Not by developing new policy ideas, but by letting them know that, you know, Republicans are cool with Lil Wayne and 'em, and Joey Crack.' [...] 
If you read this blog in a reader, please update over on the right when you get a chance. [...] 
I think I should quit my full-time job and blog all day for my 5 loyal readers.
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Obama shouldn't have chosen himself for the award.' 
Eric Kleefeld 
Added two links over on the right. Going to add a couple more -- slowly. 
The Daily News, again: 
Do bears shit in the woods? Is the Pope Catholic?
It's the former. Stop listening to Mike Huckabee.' 
The other day, the Daily News 
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