As Madoff pleads guity to one of the biggest scams in history, I want to point out an impact of his criminal activity that many may not appreciate. This sleaze's crimes are really far, far worse than any street criminal whose crimes may hurt some immediate victims because Madoff's crimes hurts many,...

Bruce Ratner is trying to get some Stimulus money to line his own pockets...even though he has in essence taken his affordable housing promise off the table for the forseeable future. This audacity, thought people like Bloomberg and Markowitz may happily let Ratner take even more taxpayer money, has...

Came across this little waste of tax money: Derek the Abstinence Clown. Yes...you read that right. Derek Dye was paid as part of the Abstinence Only program to promote abstinence. Here is a video of Derek at work: Now, this guy is just awful. And on many blogs he gets a lot of crap for how bad he is...

I was surprised to find out that even after Michael Tobman managed to badly bungle a Brooklyn judicial race in 2008 (against a friend of mine, I will note) despite a massive money advantage, someone would hire him for a 2009 campaign. Tobman ran a very well funded, sleazy, Karl Rove style campaign o...

Got an interesting letter forwarded to me, and I am told I can run with it. I am hoping I am not stepping on the toes of either of the two good folks in this sad, petty tantrum. Tony Avella and Doris Diether don't deserve this kind of crap. But it is worth showing that Chritine Quinn is willing to s...

The move by Bloomberg and his acomplices on the City Council to reverse the term limits law put into effect by voters continues to piss people off. But it hasn't completely smoothed the path for Tsar Bloomberg to remain mayor despite his complete failure to do anything about the economic collapse so...

I hadn't heard about this incident until now, but seems there were three or four Staten Island losers who were so outraged that (GASP!) a black man won the election that they went on a rampage beating up and insulting black men. From Salon.com: Three white New Yorkers, riled by Barack Obama's victor...

In 2008 there was a massive shift in the electoral map and a rejection of failed Republican ideology. But it seems New York "Democrats" didn't get the memo. New York Democrats seem to be wetting themselves over the man who was the biggest individual donor to Tom DeLay's right wing extremist PAC: Mic...

If you want cheap eat's, buffet style, in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan, I have a few do's and don'ts. The real reason I am writing this is to warn people off of a terrible place that will more than likely make you feel ill if you have the misfortune of eating from their buffet table. This place...

I have always been a fan of Japan. I have been there four times, including on my honeymoon. I even had the pleasure of living for a year in Kyoto working at Kyoto University. It is, in many ways, a wonderful place and I do hope to go back when time and money permit. I even am teaching my son what li...