Lately, barely a week goes by without some deranged psychotic liar asserting that I am obsessed with going through their work (and their work alone) with a fine tooth comb and pointing out errors, when in actuality I’ve been doing this sort of media criticism in a wide ranging manner,  Uncategorized

Lately, I have been slowly losing the feeling to write about the only game in town (politics). I have been blogging for over six years now. It’s not a fun thing anymore; but then, it probably never really was, even though I generally tried to make it enjoyable for myself and my readers. And no, this column is not about my “deranged” blog-stalker Howard “Gatemouth” Graubard.

A reader complained that I'd laid into State Senator Dan Squadron's for his empty opposition to housing in Brooklyn Bridge Park, but spared Assemblywoman Joan Millman.

I'd explain the difference between Millman and Squadron thusly.

From: Azi Paybarah

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For the past 30 years, the Republican Party has sought popularity by selling out our collective future and pandering to short-term greed. And the Democratic Party has gone along with this, and done some of it as well, to avoid unpopularity. At first I was increasingly outraged at the direction the country was taking, and the irresponsibility of our so-called leaders. I should have stopped to think about why such pandering always worked. Now I understand that they were merely reflecting the irresponsibility of our people.

This video and this video show the last two national politicians who were willing to say that all of us needed to make sacrifices in the short term, to ensure our well-being and prosperity in the long term. Their points were grounded in the values of their generation, now called the Greatest Generation. They lost their elections, and lost badly, and no Democrat has been willing to defend the future or younger generations ever since. Another member of Greatest Generation in fact took difficult and unpopular steps to secure the future. He is primarily responsible for the pause in the 30-year upward march of debt in the 1990s, as he described in this audio clip, while President. But he didn’t dare to tell Generation Greed that’s what he was going to do beforehand. Instead he lied to get elected. And then was tossed out after four years. And subsequent Republicans have done nothing but double down on pandering to Generation Greed and selling out the future. Click on those links, and really listen to what is being said. How are these men perceived today? As losers. And we are living in the country the winners made.

President Obama is waving in the wind like an old torn flag one minute slapping down Standard and Poor’s for its bogus downgrading and in another saying let’s all work together as tea bag fringe lunatics like Michele Bachmann who created the debt ceiling crisis blame him for the downgrade without worry of any push back from the White House.

I won’t stand in line for three hours to see an Alexander McQueen fashion exhibition but I will get in line to see Steve McQueen’s Mustang from the movie Bullitt.

China bluntly criticized the US on Saturday one day after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the "good old days" of borrowing were over. Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. long-term credit rating from top-tier AAA by a notch to AA-plus on Friday over concerns about the nation's budget deficits and climbing debt burden. "The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," China's official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary.

Those messes aren't the U.S. Government's messes. The mess in the U.S. government is just part of Generation Greed's messes. And they didn’t happen this week. They happened over 30 years.

Charles Barron misses a lot of City Council Meetings.

It's getting tough to just keep repeating myself, and what you'll read below is nothing that I haven't said here for years. But I just posted a comment on another blog that I think is worth thinking about for those who haven't been reading my posts in the past. According to The Economist magazine, writing about the terrifying state of the U.S. and world economy, "Barack Obama or one of his Republican challengers may yet discover the courage to tell the truth about the American economy in next year’s presidential election."

My response: So what is the truth? I suspect that if Barack Obama were to tell it, he would be labelled a Socialist. And there is no chance of a Republican candidate telling the truth.  The truth is this…