We have heard references to websites devoted to ranking public rest rooms, but we’ve never taken the time to look.  Until now. Cintas - yep, the uniform people - has a service division, where they will clean and stock your facilities.  To promote those services, each year they look for Ameri...

This could be bad. Cass R. Sunstein, just appointed by President Obama to be "regulatory czar," is a big "quality of life" guy in determining the cost/benefit ratio of government regulations. This is the executive summary of a paper he wrote back in 2003 for the Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, ...

Click here to say Thank You to the most moral military force in the world. Thank you, Israeli soldiers for doing the hard work most of the rest of the world refuses to do: defending the Jewish people and combating......

There may be more and more artists in Sunset Park, but there are also quite a few adult video stores, a fact that has residents increasingly up in arms. In fact, the melting-pot neighborhood has as many as 25 porn shops and peep shows, reports The Daily News. "Our community has been dumped on," said...

Pt 1 - National Cathedral Message - Story of The Two Wolves copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org It was 11:22 Ante Meridian, on January 21, 2009.  I did as I rarely do.  I stood silently and watched television.  As one who listens to what is aired, and does so from another room, this ...

A DOT team received a mix of gratitude and derision at Tuesday's public forum about recent pedestrian improvements in the Meatpacking District, which attracted an audience of about 100 people to the Housing Works offices on West 13th Street. It was an interesting window onto the competing interests ...

Hey, it's Christmas time-ish, and if you can't tell by the tinsel decorating the lampposts and the sale posters flooding store windows, you can tell by the music: White Christmas, Here Comes Santa Claus, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas crackling from radios in just about every business you po...

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I find myself often going back and forth between working to live and living to work. As a freelancer you have the ultimate flexibility to just work when you want and not work when you don’t want, but at the same time you see the direct finacial benefit to busting your ass. It is not only what ...

Rape Victim copyright © 2008 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org Her father, a male friend, a classmate, an acquaintance who she only exchanges casual niceties with when she sees him, the friend of a trusted friend who took her out on a first date, assaulted her. She was shocked. Never did she imagine som...