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That’s anecdotal, but I think statistics will back me up. You know, statistics based on fact, not the misinformation and disinformation on global warming provided by the GOP and the oil companies, or the say-one-thing-and-do-another that the Biden administration is … Continue reading →

Belen Fernandez at Common Dreams is appalled. Shouldn’t we all be? Don’t forget how much of our tax dollars went to prop him up; in return for which, he refuses to pay it back in the form of contributing his … Continue reading →

Watching the very black, very funny “Don’t Look Up,” I thought of what Janis Joplin said introducing “Mercedes Benz” at her final concert: “This is a song about our entire social, political, and religious set up. It covers the whole … Continue reading →

He wants to be governor or even president. He’s not going to be: his outrageous corruption, the irrevocable damage he has done to New York City’s landmarks, architectural heritage, our neighborhoods and our skyline will not be easily explained away. … Continue reading →

Grandma Lobenthal had to be using her decades-earlier vaudeville training to execute this stunt. It was somewhere around March 1975. I was going to Stuyvesant High School, eight blocks south on First Avenue from where my father’s parents lived in … Continue reading →

“The Young Turks” goes ballistic on the obscene absurdity of corporate media spinning Manchin’s betrayal of Biden and of Manchin’s own constituents as a legitimate or moral response to Manchin claiming his feelings were hurt by something or other.

Timothy Hutton as F. Scott in Pat O’Connor’s “Zelda”: “You’ve got to give the public what it wants, Zelda.” Natasha Richardson as Zelda: “You mean, it has to take what it can get.”

Biden and the Democratic Establishment have got to stop their quixotic pursuit of Manchin’s vote. He is being paid by big Republican donors to kybash Build Back Better, and so he will demand more and more concessions until BBB is … Continue reading →

I mean, if you need to live on the 109th floor looking down on the Empire State building, what does that say about your deep feelings of insecurity? And how about how unintegrated you are with society-at-large, aloof in your … Continue reading →

and the surrounding blocks that make up Billionaires’ Row. The enfilade of behemoth tombstone condos, fraudulently under-appraised for tax-avoidance purposes, (as reported by the New York Times), are ghost ships. Watch B1M’s “Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row is Half Empty.”