Category: News and Opinion

Wearing Disguises

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THE WHO: I used to know everything about you
But today when I tried to point you out to one of my friends
I picked the wrong girl again
Don't see you in the crowd anymore
I think it's you but I can't be sure
You're wearing disguises
Occasionally a girl surprises me
When she turns out to be you
Wearing disguises

I don't think you want me to see you ever again
And today I saw you dressed as a flower bed
Last week you had a wig on your head
Directing traffic in the street
And your shoes were too big for your feet
You were wearing disguises

NY Photographer Back to Haiti

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New York Photographer Back To Haiti

 

By Michael Boyajian

 

Upon his arrival this week in Haiti New York photographer Kevin C. Downs was greeted by the surreal spectacle of Spike Lee and his film crew in the Port Of Prince airport.  Things had certainly changed from when Downs had first been to Haiti soon after the quake had hit that beleaguered country when the people were in total despair and everything was in ruins.

Time to Clean House, The White House that Is

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Time to Clean House, the White House that Is

 

By Michael Boyajian

 

Frank Rich in Sunday’s New York Times questions President Obama’s late delivery of his public face on major issues not his actual intent to do good.  Hence the tardiness to appear engaged with the BP spill whereas a series of press conferences early on would have given the president the appearance of being on top of the crisis.

The handwriting for a Cuomo budget is on the wall

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The more things change, the more they remain the same.

An incoming governor vows change is coming to Albany. The legislature responds we will see about that. 

                          Sound familiar?


At the Democratic Convention last week, Andrew Cuomo took questions on how he will handle next year’s budget.

“I’m not going to raise taxes; I’m not going to have a wage increase for public employees,” he said.

Introducing “The Gate-Way”:

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In a recent appearance on “The Perez Notes,” I was asked why local NYC political blogs no longer attracted the enthusiasm they commanded during the halcyon Golden Age of the Politicker back in the ancient days of 2005. There were many things to blame and I repeated my usual suspects–which is that fragmentation, mostly caused by Ben Smith, had destroyed the community which Ben Smith had created. It seems these days the only way to get a good thread going is to have a trivial snit with a psychopath over practically nothing.

But I also cited a macro cause. People had moved on.

A World with a Heart of Gold

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A World with a Heart of Gold

 

By Michael Boyajian

 

When I was a teenager in the 1970s on Long Island my friends and I would spend our days on the south shore beaches body surfing.  Then at night we would head up to the rocky north shore beaches to hang out with Thin Lizzy’s The Boys Are Back in Town playing in our ears.