Hee-hee! It seems Council Speaker Christine Quinn is on the outs with the gay and lesbian community for getting into bed (groan!) with the NYPD over “parade permits”: We, the NYC queer community, are outraged that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who claims to speak for *us*, has endorsed this plan, calling the new permit …
Best response to the hand-wringing over that judge who overturned the Child Online Protection Act: “If only there were some people around whose job it was to raise these children.” Why hasn’t The Onion won a Pulitzer Prize yet? Hat tip: Unqualified Offerings
The NY Sun is reporting that the Parks Department spends $1,100 each time it plants a sapling in New York City. That is exponentially higher than the cost to plant trees in other locales, and it’s $400 more than NYC itself was paying just four years ago. The reason for the astronomical price hike is no mystery: …
According to the Times, Wal-Mart has written off New York. Thanks, union a-holes. I love overpaying for groceries and sundries. Really, thanks a million.
… (both with a capital and lower-case ‘l’).” So says the lovely and talented Karol Sheinin at Alarming News about this here blog.
I’ve been getting my hopes up, but The Empire Zone is reporting that, alas, there probably won’t be a shutdown of the New York State government over the budget impasse. Of course, the real reason the pols don’t want a budget impasse is because people might not miss the state government when it’s gone. Remember …
I’ll be discussing my new book The Walton Street Tycoons on The Sloan Ranger radio program on WGNU 920 AM in St. Louis. I’ll be on about 5:35 p.m. Central time (6:35 p.m. Eastern time). You can listen live on the Internet.
It’s long overdue, but Serf City, everyone’s favorite libertarian tabloid, finally has a blog. Since we only publish about 3-4 paper issues a year, this will give our writers a forum for communicating with our loyal readers between issues. What can you expect here? Mostly the same stuff you’d find in Serf City the paper, …