Mayor Bloomberg gave a weird speech at MIT earlier this week. He discussed how he never even considered carrying a gun in college, because he smoked so much weed, which comes as no surprise, but it’s the following comment that seems the strangest: “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh-biggest army in the world.” Read more »
Mayor Michael Bloomberg just swooped into the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park. The multi-billionaire and quintessential symbol of the one percent protesters are demonstrating against, reportedly went on a Kanye West-style tour, meaning he didn’t stay long and probably felt really out of place for the few minutes he was there. Here’s actual photographic evidence of his attendance. UPDATE: He told occupiers they need to leave so workers can clean the park. (Photo: @INTERZONE__)
NYC’s hypocritical mayor had this to say about politicians who recklessly litter the city with their campaign posters and then find ways to skirt the penalties: “If elected officials don’t follow the law, what hope is there for everybody else? I always thought that elected officials should have to be held to a higher standard.” Forget a higher standard. How about applying the same standard and make them face the criminal prosecution street artists do when they’re caught for doing exactly the same thing? (Photo: Mediaeater/flickr)
Arizona’s Republican legislators and the operators of the Crossroads of the West gun show are baffled as to why a team of investigators with NYC connections would try to buy firearms undercover in Tucson. Don’t they have something more elitist to do, like attend an off-Broadway play? Read more »
New York City public schools suspend twice as many students as they did in 2005, because suspension has become the fashionable disciplinary method. The upshot: it’s a lot easier to deal with schoolkids when they’re not in class chewing their Hubba Bubba and yelling crazy stuff at each other. Almost makes you wonder why we even bother having schools in the first place.
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New York leads the nation in pedestrian deaths. High-five! Read more »
The head of the Transportation Security Administration emailed Politico (“America’s greatest newspaper”) to say that the agency will adapt security measures “as conditions warrant” and the continual process of “refinement and adjustment.” In other words, nothing. But Politico sure is optimistic! |NY Mag|
Florida Republican Rep. John Mica of Florida has been writing letters to America’s airports telling them they should get rid of their Transportation Security Administration touchy-feelies and hire private security guards instead. Read more »
A three-year-old from the Boston area went to preschool with 17 bags of crack in her shoe. It sounds like the guy who confessed to putting the crack there is covering for someone else. Read more »
Illegal immigrants can now qualify for in-state tuition in California, after a court deemed it so. Your grouchy, xenophobic old uncle is SO going to bitch about this next week at the Thanksgiving dinner table, probably. Read more »
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