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Plans are afoot to build a new hotel right next to the nineteenth-century, immaculately preserved home on East 4th Street. Construction of the hotel tower will, in all probability, cause the old home to collapse.

Attend this hearing and speak out against another outrageous vandalism of NYC’s architectural heritage. Let me tell you, it stinks in so many ways.

Community Board 2 PUBLIC HEARING
Wednesday, April 11, 6:30 p.m.
NYU Silver Building, 32 Waverly Place, Room 520

As the Merchant’s web site informs us, it is “New York City’s only family home preserved intact, inside and out, from the 19th century. . . If the Merchant’s House – Manhattan’s first designated landmark in 1965 – can’t be protected, NO New York City landmark will be safe from out-of-control private development.”

In 1927, Noel Coward heard and heeded and referenced the tom-toms that Stravinsky was pounding as he composed his Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. In “Dance Little Lady,” Coward channels the seemingly time-immemorial urge to seek some kind of ecstatic oblivion and offers a cautionary reproach as well. Few ditties capture so well the allure and the poignant desperation of dance-mad London post-WWI. “Youth is fleeting to the rhythm beating in your mind.”

Actually, I loved this song even before I heard it–tell you why in a bit.

by society and the “mainstream” media show how sick both institutions are.

Every day we discover more about the bunkered, law-exempt fiefdom he’s got going out there, and of course the whole Facebook social engineering experiment is just a warm up for what the Prodigy Despot would engineer should he ever–perish the thought–seize a government office.

And Sandberg can launch as many apology-whistlestops as she wants–the problem is not the spin, but the actions and the personalities and the control mindset.

they still won’t counter punch; they can only cringe.

The Red-state Democrats have become some sort of atrophied limb.

Absolutely pitiful: Trump trashes Senator Manchin and Manchin won’t even dare to mention Trump’s name in response.

Self-styled “fiscal hawk” Mick Mulvaney starves the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of the money it needs to help prevent Americans from being rendered helpless marks by the financial services industry.

But he lards lots and lots of surplus cash on favored friends he’s found sweatheart jobs for at the Bureau.

Stacy Cowley in The New York Times reports on the latest outrages committed by Mulvaney, who epitomizes Trump AND the GOP’s determination to make a mockery of self-governance in the United States.

Shifty old traitor Mitch McConnell boasts about mugging the Constitution and stealing a Supreme Court seat.

WHY did you let him do it, President Obama?

I can truly say that if I had been advising the President, McConnell would not have gotten away with it.

The arrogance of the unseemly Senate leader: “the decision I made not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy when Justice Scalia died was the most consequential decision I’ve made in my entire public career.”

The man is rancid. Only in today’s political climate could a “people’s representative” boast of his criminality this way. McConnell is a grave danger to the United States and, as Joan McCarter writes at Daily Kos, “for the remaining six months of this session of Congress, Democrats have to use everything at their disposal to shut him down.”

Scott Pruitt is dementedly megalamaniacal, utterly without honesty or integrity, and highly dangerous to the future survival of the United States and of humanity itself.

Isn’t it convenient, btw, that every time Pruitt tells God he wants to do something, God tells him to go for it?

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s example is more inspiring than ever.

More needed than ever.

that Trump will go to the mat for. Kelly, too. We know that Trump likes ’em the scummier the better.

Of course, since both Trump and Kelly are Fascistic, they may be playing that old Stalinist trick of giving the next-to-be-shot a medal before the final denouement unfolds.

And boy, does he want to bring on those end times!

And he’s a brazen scofflaw con man–look at those ridiculous, insolent facial expressions. I think he has either one more, or one less than Tucker Carlson.

Send them to the Actors Studio–at least let them con us with finesse.