Category: News and Opinion

At the risk of receiving comments that I’m once again subtly defending the indefensible, I’m presenting a report on the first 3 days of hearings on petition challenges at the New York City Board of Elections.

Shutter Island Comes to Fishkill

By Michael Boyajian

The Fishkill Town historian Willa Skinner once tried to explain the mentality of Fishkill to a local newcomer and activist, Mara Farrell, as being something based on the society that once surrounded what was the largest facility for the criminally insane in the country and the town’s largest employer.

Verdict: Nelson is credible because she's clearly too dumb to lie; and therefore she is credible in her assertion that no one else in the campaign ordered her to say stupid shit to a reporter. Further, the reason she gives for the memo's existence rings true–in fact, it's a slightly cleaned up version of the reason I found most likely (she's says poaching the other guy's money; I said drying it up). Fired aide in 'Jewish money' flap speaks – Maggie Haberman – POLITICO.com www.politico.com

A Question For Congressman Peter King –

Would you oppose the establishment of a Catholic Church building near the hotel in Brighton, England where your terrorist friends in the IRA set off a bomb that killed 5, narrowly missing Margaret Thatcher?

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-history-brighton-hotel-bombing.htm

One assertion from insurgents and the press about New York politics is that our hyper-technical election laws required candidates to get at least twice or three times the number of required signatures to get on the ballot.

Clichés become that way for a reason; Real Estate is accurately called "The New Pornography" because it appeals to prurient interests and is utterly without redeeming social importance.

Much like porn, in this article we learn that something seemingly small and insignificant has grown to ten times its original size; and, like in the Senator's own love life, one can rest assured that the now engorged value will be shared only with Iris Weinshall.

Mazel Tov to them both.

And like the Senator's love life, most of us would prefer he keep the details to himself.

But instead, we learn that Chuck Schumer is not merely a real estate horndog (a discrete but secret vice of many seemingly normal folk) but an exhibitionist as well.

Previously, when he'd been accused of waiving his Weiner in public, we thought he was talking about Anthony (a native Sloper who could surely opine about the only "values" Chuck is seemingly interested in).

For once, Chuck's antennae (the political kind) has failed him grievously. One would think he would have noticed while waiting on the checkout line at "Back to the Land" that even many diehard opponents of Atlantic Yards have been cursing a blue streak about Daniel Goldstein's sweet buyout deal, and wondering when their pot of gold will ever come in.

Schedefraude is Brownstone Brooklyn's greatest spectator sport. The good fortunes of others (especially the monetary kind) are a stone buzzkill.

The Brownstone version of Schumer's mythical Bailey family will not be pleased. Chuck Schumer Paid $157,000 For His Park Slope Apartment | The New York Observer www.observer.com