The situation no one wants to talk about is being whispered about here and there. Looking for something else I recently came upon this NY Times essay by Kurt Anderson from a few months back. “Why had the revolution dreamed up in the late 1960s mostly been won on the social and cultural fronts — women’s rights, gay rights, black president, ecology, sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll — but lost in the economic realm, with old-school free-market ideas gaining traction all the time? There was a long pause. People shrugged and sighed. I had an epiphany, which I offered, bumming out everybody in the room. What has happened politically, economically, culturally and socially since the sea change of the late ’60s isn’t contradictory or incongruous. It’s all of a piece. For hippies and bohemians as for businesspeople and investors, extreme individualism has been triumphant. Selfishness won.”

So, do I agree? In part.

Given the failure of Vito Lopez's real political opponents to mount a write-in campaign for a credible candidate, Republican Richy Martinez looked to be the only Republican (other than those who cast a vote in the legislature for same sex marriage, or are running against a member of the Barron family) who was a sure-shot for a Gatemouth endorsement.

But then Martinez said, in regard to Lopez: 

A lesson learned:  “Rope a Dope” is NOT a good debate strategy.

A few years ago I wrote a column positing that all five district attorneys in New York City should be term limited to twelve years. It was simply an extension of my thesis that ALL elected officials in New York (federal, state, city/local) should be term-limited accordingly. There is no need for me to revisit the many arguments for term limits that have been made in this city since way before 1991. Three referendums have shown overwhelming voter support for the proposition.

At the Atlantic Antic nine year old Dybbuk asked "who was that guy who was pretending to like you."

"That was Bill DeBlasio; he's next in line to the Mayor. Aren't you impressed?"

In publications headquartered outside the United States. The Economist seems to imply that as bad as it would be, high inflation may be the only way out for disadvantaged younger generations. Follow the link and read all about it. Earlier, the Financial Times had brought the issue up.

Cuomo doesn't mind if any Republican uses his likeness in an ad, so long as it's accurate.

Hakeem Jeffries won a landslide mandate from the enrolled Democrats of the 8th Congressional District. Why is CBID inviting the Green Party candidate running against him to speak at their meeting?

Most Jewish voters seem to agree with the substance of the President’s position on Israel. According to the Forward’s JJ Goldberg:

Barack Obama: I always joke that my intellectual formation was through Jewish scholars and writers, even though I didn’t know it at the time.