So, one of my predictions came true. Several years back the mayor of New York City, one Michael Bloomberg, a multi-billionaire, decided that police officers in this town were overpaid, when in fact anyone with the slightest familiarity with the situation knew the opposite to be true. Now Mayor Mike, as this patrician corporate prince […]
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Is there a sadder sight than a middle-aged drunk in a cheap ill-fitting wig trying to light a cigarette with shaky hands with not so much success while trying mightily not to look drunk? Here's another sad sight: A once proud snowman melting away, his carrot nose and button eyes pinned between his scarf and
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Kudos to Al Gore. He won the Nobel Peace Prize to go along with his Oscar for his movie about global warming called "An Inconvenient Truth." And you just know it's got to be true judging from all the people screaming like 5-years olds with their hands in the cookie jar that it's not true,
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Once upon a time in a kingdom far, far away lived a little boy named Buzz. Buzz was a spirited boy, full of energy and curiosity. His mother said he was a real handful and she never knew what Buzz would do next but she loved him very much and encouraged him to explore his
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As part of my campaign for the Vice Presidency, I actually did a small bit of work looking into what it is they actually do and to my relief it is just as I suspected: damned little. My kind of job, sort of like those no-show jobs where mobsters extort a construction company to get
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I could have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble if only they listened. Take the geniuses over at AOL for example. They were once the big kid on the block when it came to e-mail servers, the industry standard if you will. Only problem was that they charged a monthly fee for
IF ONLY THEY LISTENED (THE TRUMP TOWER OF EGO AND OTHER TALES OF PUBLIC IDIOCY) Read More »
Jack Hobbs here, thirties guy. The reason I’m called thirties guy is that I got sent here in a time machine in early September. Turns out it was a one-way trip. I thought I’d be here for half a day, tops, snap some pictures and disappear back to 1937. Didn’t happen. My friend Bob, who’s
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So here I am in front of the computer today with a vacant stare. I sat down to write a blog but instead read some funny e-mails my friend Ed sent me, looked at wild lions eating Bambi’s mother on you-tube, e-mailed some people and generally wasted time since I was coming up empty on
I GOOGLED MYSELF. YAHOO! Read More »
So now Rudy Giuliani's selling himself to the folks in other states as the guy who saved New York from itself. He states that New Yorkers did not agree with his ideas but elected him twice since we liked his results. Well, count me out, America's Mayor. Rudy Giuliani was on his way out of
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The other day In Times Square some guy named Josh Drimmer decided to take a stroll. Nothing unusual there, it's a cool place to wander around. Lots to see. But good old Josh decided he'd like to do it naked so he stripped down to his birthday suit and gave the tourists something else to
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