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At the risk of shocking people, I find the implicit criticism here of Brad Lander to be as stupid and outrageous as when Bill DeBlasio went after Bloomie for a Neville Chamberlain comparison.
The lessons of Pastor Niemoller did derive from the Holocaust, but the lesson has far greater application.
Yglesias makes fun of the idea a Republican could beat Weiner, but the GOP candidate just got 39% on a shoe string budget, and the district becomes more Russian and more Orthodox with every day.
Of course, since it's a reapportionment year that might not matter.
The NYS State GOP chose Rick Perry as its speaker because "At a time when New York ranks at or near the bottom among states in every important metric, Texas is leading the way.”
By this they obviously mean percentage of population without health insurance (#1), sub-prime mortgages (#1) and toxic emissions (#1).
Yes, yes, I'll concede them Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell & Neil Young, but the Canadians really have to learn to stop imitating Americans a day late and an inch short.
As far as my low-tech mind can grasp this hi-tech story, Congressman Anthony Weiner is being accused of sending a picture of his underwear-covered (in contrast to Christopher Lee) member-item to a young lady on the West Coast in an effort to provide a stimulus package for her Twitter.
In response, he accuses some political hacker of attempting to sit on his Facebook.
NOTE: The other day, while looking for an appropriate same sex marriage link from my archives, I discovered that one of my pieces was unaccountably deleted. As far as I can tell, this is the only piece this has ever happened to.
In the interest of archive maintenance, it is hereby reposted, together with a Roscoe Conway comment I also happened to have saved:
Though Hakeem Jeffries's rampant ambitions have sometimes caused him to be crass (his debut’s appalling insinuations about Roger Green’s religion) or silly (his proposal
This piece ignores an important point, which is that most of the 54th AD has not been represented by Ed Towns since 1992, so a loss by his daughter will not necessarily be a sign a Towns’ weakness–she could win his part of the district and still lose the race.
In 1970, a redistricting, and a potential race against a popular member of the local football team, led Richard “Max” McCarthy, a smart and plucky Congressman from the Buffalo suburbs (who'd won his already marginal seat in the 64 Johnson landsiide), to embark upon a kamikazee run for the US Senate.
During that race, during which, in order to dramatize our environmental problems (and attract some publicity), McCarthy went scuba-diving into the Hudson and took a balloon ride in Central Park.
Gatemouth endorses Hochul!
What else did you expect?
Thank you Jack Davis for finally serving a useful purpose.
Although Jack Davis may be a less credible source than my Schnauzer, Cerberus, this story has the ring of truth.