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McWhorley’s

Now that Dennis Hastert thinks it’s a cool place to go, isn’t it time that all decent New Yorkers gave up on McSorley’s? Between the lines, the crowds, and the drunken tourists, it’s certainly no longer the Wonderful Saloon of … Continue reading

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Truck Vs. Truck.

Sighted five minutes apart, circling Union Square:

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The Highest Form of Patriotism

I went through Union Square today as the protest march was coming back down Broadway (it made a big circle). Can’t say what was happening in Midtown but the scene there was peaceful and optimistic.

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Mice, Hookers and Pies

The Manchester Union Leader published a column earlier this week by former editorial page editor Bernadette Malone, solemnly warning RNC delegates that NYC protesters… …plan to release swarms of mice in New York City to terrorize delegates to the National … Continue reading

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Today’s Clips

David Brooks, the junior member of the minority party on the Times Op-Ed page, had me nodding along in his column about John Kerry this morning. His basic point was that Kerry’s Vietnam-era speeches were passionate and full of conviction, … Continue reading

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RNC Not Welcome

Sticker on a bathroom door at the Parkside Lounge on Houston Street: Dear President Bush, If Crawford, Texas, is ever attacked, I promise not to come there and throw a party.

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A Sane Libertarian?

This is extraordinary: John Perry Barlow, the former Grateful Dead lyricist and EFF board member who was for years a steadfast Libertarian and actually worked on one of Dick Cheney’s campaigns, has finally realized that perhaps the unfettered rampaging of … Continue reading

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CIA Nominee: “I’m Not Qualified”

Porter Goss apparently told Michael Moore during an interview for Fahrenheit 9/11, “I couldn’t get a job with the CIA today. I am not qualified.”

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Scarier and Scarier

I haven’t taken the ferry between NY and NJ since they reopened the WTC PATH station, but mephron has apparently been harrassed twice by security searchers at the ferry for carrying various Dungeons and Dragons books that were deemed “inappropriate.” … Continue reading

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Real Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out

And on the WSJ’s op-ed page, no less. Meanwhile, Media Matters has outed the two co-authors of Unfit For Command, a book attacking Kerry’s Vietnam service, as right-wing activists and loons. These anti-Kerry veterans are, of course, supported by the … Continue reading

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