You win. Forever.

I think America fell for Rudy after 9/11 more than NYC. 

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This sounds interesting! Men and masculinity has always been one of the most fraught relationships on earth, and throwing in fame makes for an explosion

Also women: use the toilet seat covers and stop trying to squat. You get pee EVERYWHERE! You do not have the thigh strength of Beyonce! And even if Bey found herself in an average airport bathroom like the rest of us she would use a fucking seat cover because she’s not nasty!

Can we talk about how Elizabeth Warren went full assassin on the stage. I saw the gangster in Elizabeth and I approve. She's the only one I like anyway. Bloomberg realized quickly that nobody came to play with him. We watched that man get ran over, beat, and dragged down 5th Ave and NO ONE called the police to report…

Bloomberg found the thing his money couldn’t buy — debate agility.

To state what is obvious to most people about Bloomberg’s answer: He acts as if there was a murder rampage that he had to address. The murder rate was already at an effective historic low when he took office and continued to go lower following a very clear trend that preceded Giuliani and correlated with national…

I used to HATE it when my mom was right (which was usually, TBH). Until I smartened up and realized I was getting solid-gold therapy for the low low price of a smooch and a “Thanks, Mom.”

What an idiot.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Man, I would have been more OK if he had donated money to rape crisis centers of something like that, but no.

I tend to agree with you here. He put in work, but was never truly repentant of his actions. It’s like when a CEO says some horribly racist shit, never really apologizes, says how he can SEE if people took it as racist, and then donates something like 500,000 dollars to Black Lives Matter or a similar cause and…

Monique, you are one of my favorite writers here, and I recognize from your writing that you are grieving through this too, but here comes the but.

If you do read her, start with her earliest ones — Where Are the Children? and A Stranger Is Watching. Granted, I haven’t read them since junior high (early 80s), but they were soooo good, I was hooked. Stayed up until the wee hours sweating with suspense. But then the last ten years or so, they started to get on my…

Yup. She’s got 80K likes but 50K dislikes so she’s got that going for her which is nice.

And we have term limits again, like it never happened, and no one questions it. Bill de Blasio does not have a small ego and does not lack in self-esteem, but I don’t see him pushing for a similar exemption. I’m sure Corey Johnson wouldn’t give it to him because he will be 2021's Chris Quinn. To be honest I don’t…

This is not good news for anybody other than the corporate interests it is intended to mollify, but it is ridiculously predictable news. Did anybody genuinely think a Republican president, let alone this Republican president, was really going to implement the ban of an extraordinarily profitable consumer product…

And by seeking and accepting that third term he arguably cost Chris Quinn her own election to succeed him. She was ahead in the polls because she was a popular City Council Speaker, but then people started harping on her instrumentality in getting Bloomberg that term limits exemption. And then de Blasio ran the “walkin…

This one time I took a profitable sports blog, told it to completely change its already successful column subject writing strategy and managed to fire the editor in charge leading to all the writers quitting in solidarity, leaving it as a shell, and then banning all comments because I was afraid of criticism. What a…