Monthly Archives: September 2023

Lost And Found

September 12, 2023 – 1:57 pm

This afternoon I arrived at 387 in Clinton Hill and discovered my iPad was missing from my bag. I had had it at the Cafe Mogador in the East Village. Raoul and I had shared a coucous merguez. I hadn’t that Arab dish in ages. It was delicious as was the rest of our meal, […]

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Oculus At The World Trade Building

September 11, 2023 – 1:15 pm

When the World Trade Towers collapsed on 9/11, the weight of the Twin Towers crushed the subway hub in the massive buildings sub-basement. The federal government and the governments of New Jersey and New York agreed to create of new station. Its construction was long-delayed and the cost blossomed from $1.9 billion to $3.9 billion […]

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Osama Bin Laden arrested in Maine

September 11, 2023 – 9:25 am

Written Oct 31, 2006 Written Oct 31, 2006 Five years after 9/11 a man in Islamic attire appeared on the Maine Turnpike near South Portland. Numerous motorists called 911, because the man was carrying dynamite and bore a likeness to the infamous Osama Bin Laden. State Police swarmed to the scene. The bearded man was […]

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9/11 Plus 6

September 11, 2023 – 8:59 am

Bring me the head of Osama Bin Laden! The Pentagon increased the reward for OBL to $50,000,000 tax-free Dead or Alive. No takers. The al-Quada mastermind responded to this ante with video inviting the West to embrace Islam or else. Faced with those two options I regretfully have to inform the world’s most wanted fugitive […]

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The Paperboy No Cometh No More

September 11, 2023 – 4:14 am

Written Sep 13, 2011 I have read the New York Times for many years. Editors, critics, and reporters come and go, but the newspaper has held onto the best writers for the simple reason that they help circulation. Among that upper echelon is op-ed commentator Paul Krugman. The 2008 Nobel Prize winner has exhibited an […]

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