To help restaurants reopen safely, the Health Department is suspending regular restaurant inspections until Tuesday, November 12. Imagine how safe we could be if they closed down for good! Final reminder, you don’t have to vote for Scylla or Charybdis, a vote for Gary Johnson actually counts for something.
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Conventional wisdom says a vote for a third party candidate is a wasted vote. The Free Agent posits that in New York this November, the only way your vote will count is if it’s cast for a third party candidate. The Free Agent probably shouldn’t say this, spokesmodel that she is for the Manhattan Libertarian
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New Yorkers gave a big thumbs-up to wars, entitlements, and bailouts Tuesday when they declined to unseat a single incumbent in the primaries. Come on, now, homies, we have one more chance to redeem ourselves–on November 6, simply vote against each incumbent. Any randomly chosen group of New Yorkers would do a better job than
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First Bloomberg came for the smokers, but I was not a smoker so I did not speak out. Then he came for 4 Loko, but I do not drink, so I did not speak out. Then he came for the people, who while not smoking in restaurants or bars, were nevertheless still smoking in public
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Pregnant Americans, fear not! Should your bundle of joy turn out to be a bundle of joi, or glæde, or llo, or Freude, in other words, if you give birth abroad, your child is still a natural citizen of the United States. The rules for automatic citizenship change occasionally, and the Constitution is a little
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Occasionally of an underscheduled evening, The Free Agent turns the dial on her television set to catch a broadcast. This season, nestled amongst the police procedurals, superstitious dramas, and unreality shows, she found the chupacabra of popular entertainment—a capitalist hero. She wasn’t expecting it. “Two Broke Girls” was created by Michael Patrick King of “Sex
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The Free Agent likes keeping her finger on the pulse of youth, so she almost perspired at the opportunity to speak to a group of political science students at Manhattan’s alternative City-as-High-School. Their instructor cleared the path by passing on a list of the students’ concerns, along with the caveat that they were just beginning
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On the rare Saturday night she doesn’t have an assignation, The Free Agent has a new steady date, CNBC’s financial boot camp show, “Prince$$”. Host “’Till Debt Do Us Part”’s Gail Vaz-Oxlade—a realist after The Free Agent’s own heart—tackles one young attractive Canadienne, deeply in debt and deeply entitled, per week. She is prodded over
At 11:11 on 11/11/11, the red, white, and blue USO float, iced with Andrews-channeling trio The Liberty Bells, inched away from the curb at 24th Street to creep two miles up Fifth Avenue. With 24,999 other patriots, The Free Agent celebrated Veterans Day. Back before global carnages required a numbering system, there was The Great
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The Free Agent finds some tracts of common ground with the ragtag group of protesters who have camped out in and around Liberty Plaza Park in New York since September 17. While tippy-toeing through a cardboard quilt of hand-written signs, she nodded approvingly at one saying, “Hold Barney Frank Accountable,” for instance. Like the group
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