Monthly Archives: October 2010

Another Step Backward

October 9, 2010 – 11:42 am

Three of my co-workers in the diamond exchange commute from New Jersey. A distance of less than twenty miles. Their daily trips combine trains, buses, and subways. Traffic horrid on each of the tunnels and bridges crossing the Hudson River. The Federal government had planned a third rail tunnel to alleviate the strain on the […]

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New York Times Lives Again

October 8, 2010 – 1:02 pm

My one-day boycott of the NY Times ended with morning after I forgot my book. I had nothing to read on the subway. $2 for the Times was better than staring at my fellow passengers. Their dreary Friday expressions a mirror of my own end of the week exhaustion. I scanned the news with disinterest. […]

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Death of the New York Times

October 6, 2010 – 10:55 pm

I’ve been reading the New York Times since 1976. Over three decades. I almost stopped buying the magazine after the editors bracketed the announcement of President Clinton’s peccadillo with ads on the NRA and Israeli resettlement. That sell-out revealed that the true heart of the newspaper as a pro-Zionist mouthpiece without any concern for the […]

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I’m No Witch

October 6, 2010 – 7:49 pm

One of my family members was hung for his religious beliefs in England. The year was in the early 1600s. He was no a witch. Only a heretic. Not a Catholic either, so I know the pain of religious persecution and I listened with interest as Delaware Senate candidate announced on his first political ad, […]

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Debbie Does Bridgeport

October 6, 2010 – 7:33 pm

The old industrial cities of America lost jobs and population during the 80s and 90s. The only flourishing business was drugs and Bridgeport was no exception, as gangs from New York fought deadly gun battles over the low-income projects of Connecticut’s largest city. The battles of Father Panik Village, Pequonnock village, Marina Village and the […]

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