Author: Gatemouth

On 12/8/10, I wrote: "Sorry, I’m not yet convinced that “The Great Sell-Out” is the route to our salvation (although I might feel differently were I unemployed), but I could possibly swallow it if they add Zadroga, DADT, Dream Act and START"

Well, we got three out of four, and no one sane really believes we would have gotten even one without the sellout (which, I note, Kucinich voted for because his constituents need the unemployment benefits)

GATE: We always help our Christian friends and relatives celebrate Christmas , but we don't celebrate it for ourselves, because we don't believe that Jesus is the son of G-d.

DYBBUK (age 7 & 3/4ths) : That's because we are all G-d's children. Even though you have a father and I have a father, we are still children of G-d

This article about Nydia Velazquez as savior of the Brooklyn “Reform” movement gets much wrong every which way.

Nydia has been a constant and unremitting Vito Lopez enemy for at least two and a half decades, and in contrast to the article's assertions, has injected herself many times into races in Lopez's turf, sometimes even running her own staff, when most members of Congress would have just concentrated upon their own business. Supporting Lincoln Restler is not an anomaly for her.

Someone once said that Captain Beefheart was Howlin’ Wolf crossed with Ornette Coleman (which might not be that farfetched; Ornette once played in Pee Wee Crayton's Combo).

I’ll admit Beefheart's not for the squeamish, but neither is politics; so if you‘re a regular reader of this column, you can probably take it.

If you sneeze during Justin Sullivan’s Paul Newell documentary “Excuse Me. Mr. Speaker,” you will miss the scene at the convention where Paul Newell yells at me in response to a (unheard) question I asked him.

But there's two or so solid minutes of me in the DVD’s bonus footage, although I get not one laugh.

A week ago I reported on the NYC election results in the “Angry Black Man Primary” between the Freedom Party’s Councilman Charles Barron and the Rent is Too Damn High Party’s Jimmy McMillan.

I thought of writing something of substance about "No Labels" (talk about an oxymoronic sentence) and then realized I had already done so months ago.

ROSCOE CONWAY: Speaking as someone who lives in a property tax cap state – stupid f'n idea. If school taxes are too high, throw out your school board. Oh, well, in the words of Ron Swanson, “The public is stupid.

SENATOR RUBEN DIAZ, SR: I’d like to know if my colleagues in the New York State Senate – especially those who consider themselves purists – plan to do to something to Senator Kevin Parker now that he has been convicted of two misdemeanors.