On Sandy, ConEdison and New Yorkers
Since Sunday, tropical storm Sandy has proved to be the man in charge in New York City. Sandy’s reign came as ConEdison once again...
More Brown matter from the NYPD
Occupy Wall Street is to celebrate its first aniversary, on Monday, with the blessing of the NYPD spokespman, Paul Brown, who said: "We accommodate...
Geithner’s Detroit Hope to End the Depression Shattered, Again
Broke, the US Treasury has enlisted the FBI to help find the Teamsters’ hundreds of millions of dollars, money which disappeared in 1975. For...
Who Needs Poison When You Can Tweet?
With one 137-character tweet, Valerie Trierweiler, 48, the French First Lady, proved to be an amazing Lady Macbeth: She got rid of her predecessor,...
America Does Not Need an Arab Spring, Mr. Friedman. It Needs a Leader.
Yesterday, the often mistaken Thomas L. Friedman of New York Times raised an interesting question “Does America need an Arab Spring?” True to himself,...
Breaking News: Greece Cannot Publicly Start Killing Its People – No Matter How Old...
Everybody is afraid of Greece. What if Greece gives us another example in democracy and saves its people at the risk of imposing limits...
Class and Tawdriness on the Internet. Where’s the News? It Ain’t Cheap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSHj2-UqFIIt was expected to premiere at Cannes, but Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York”, based on the sex scandals and legal battles of French...
Breaking News: Sweden – the Best US Ally in the War against Free Speech
Henning Mankell, the acclaimed Swedish mystery writer, is rumored to be resurrecting his Kurt Wallander series with the new installment: Sweden One Step Ahead...
The Motorcycle Taxis — Why Hasn’t New York City Adopted Them Yet?
Perhaps even more intriguingly is why hasn't San Francisco introduced the motorcycle taxis yet? The motorcycle taxi's main attraction is that you can sit...
Google Chromebook Attack!
Google is diversifying its single-minded attitude to own us all – material or not. It has just introduced a computer device, the Chromebook, which...
On Lust and Social Dilemmas: To Spit or to Swallow
Dominique Strauss Kahn, the would-have-been French Bill Clinton, was unluckily undone by his carnal lust before the French people had a chance to vote...
WSJ Takes the Print Prize for Reporting News as if It Were Non-News
While
-The New York Times reports the $2 billion JP Morgan mismanaged or misappropriated a "loss which is likely to strengthen call for regulation" in the...
In Defense of the American Horror Movie: Remain Obese or Die
Mayor Bloomberg is proposing to ban sales of sugar-sweetened beverages over 16 ounces in New York City. Fountain and bottled beverages over 16 ounces...
NY Times-Bits Blog: Can’t prove to your parole officer you called him from your...
Tell him Google keeps your phone logs and a picture of you making the call. Also, don't forget to mention there is an iApp...
