Pet Peeve of the Week
Yesterday, as I was reading about NY Knicks rookie phenom Jeremy Lin, I was irked by one reporter’s glaring, but all too common, misuse of the word, “reticent” when “reluctant” is meant. Writing...
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Ending City BOE's Foolishness
Posted by Michael | Feb 13, 2012 | Elections, Public Policy |
Today’s DN editorial said that the city Board of Elections has to end its foolish method of counting votes. For some still unclear reason, the BOE requires its poll workers to cut precinct results into strips and hand...
Read MorePOLITICO Arena: Is Pelosi's Colbert ad a flop?
Posted by Michael | Feb 10, 2012 | Elections, Finance, Government, Politics, Public Policy |
POLITICO Arena: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has released an ad attacking political comedian Stephen Colbert and his super PAC,in which she accuses “The Colbert Report” host of taking money from special interest groups. ...
Read MoreRoland Martin is not GLAAD
Posted by Michael | Feb 9, 2012 | African Americans, Media |
I reblog this Raynard Jackson piece in its entirety in solidarity with Roland Martin (despite his shallow critique of NYC Parents Choice). Black men still have free speech rights in America (and little power to harm gays or any...
Read MoreTime To Pay The Panhandler, NYC | New York Daily News
Posted by Michael | Feb 8, 2012 | Public Policy |
Time To Pay The Panhandler, NYC | New York Daily News. The state’s anti-loitering law, passed in 1964, was ruled unconstitutional three times by state and federal courts in the 1980s and 1990s. But the NYPD continued arresting...
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