Monthly Archives: November 2009
Thanksgiving myths exploded
While it remains true that the local Massachusetts Indians were forever blessed and benefitted by the arrival of the Pilgrims, who showed them how to grow corn, catch turkeys and advance from their diet of sticks and dirt, other Thanksgiving … Continue reading
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This may make someone choke on his turkey – I hope so
How private property saved the Pilgrims from starvation. Today is Thanksgiving. And there is no better time to remember an underappreciated lesson of the original Thanksgiving: that the Pilgrims nearly starved to death because of collectivism and eventually saved themselves … Continue reading
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Tip for Uncle Ugly and other culinary experimenters
Turns out the New York Times still serves a useful purpose beyond wrapping fish: says here, Don’t deep-fry a brined turkey! Let’s start at the top. DO NOT BRINE A TURKEY THAT IS GOING TO BE FRIED. The first time … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving cheer
Here’s a pundit who thinks housing prices have bottomed. I’m not sure I buy her entire argument but she’s probably right that the foreclosure process has so clogged the courts that houses will enter the market in a trickle, not … Continue reading
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Gee, even the Huffington Post is pissed at Obama
I thought the HuffPo was a liberal ally of the Messiah, but you wouldn’t know it from this. Of course, they see unemployment and blame the One’s advisors, rather than the liberal policies that created the mess, but it’s all … Continue reading
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See no evil
The New York Times once again is in denial mode, ignoring a huge story that is getting larger and will finally force them to disclose to their readers something they tried to shield them from for weeks. This is about … Continue reading
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You just know this is coming to Greenwich Avenue
Swedes discover the nail bed.
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For $166,000, let’s do without
Greenwich’s Health Department wants that sum returned to its budget next year so it can, among other high-priority tasks, organize a public forum on swine flu. Who the hell goes to these public forums anyway? People want to get scared, … Continue reading
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Greenwich Time single-parent reporter is back on job
No, I don’t know the marital or parental status of the GT reporter covering the case of the 75-year-old murderer from Glenville, but would she please for the love of God stop referring to him as a “grandfather”? The only … Continue reading
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And they’re rendering fat people at Walmarts
This won’t help sales: J.C. Penny salesman rapes 13-year-old boy in changing room. Customer service reaches a new low.
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Climaquiddick
MEGAN MCARDLE: The Real Problem With the Climate Science Emails. “I think most people–including me–missed the biggest part of the climate emails story. Sexing up a graph is at best a misdemeanor. But a Declan McCullough story suggests a more disturbing … Continue reading
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Here’s a girl who could give those Cornell lovers some advice
New York Social Diary reports on a Marisa Noel sighting at the Boys and Girls Club fundraiser in New York City. Here’s our girl , missing in action these past months, working on selling Papa’s Round Hill cottage to home … Continue reading
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Where in the world do you hide after this?
A couple of employees at Cornell, married, but not to each other, managed to inadvertently copy the entire school (and now the entire Internet) with their randy sex emails. Honey, you got some s’plaining to do. Frank Gifford managed to pull … Continue reading
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Markie Madoff to sell his Nantucket property?
Why the hell does he still have a Nantucket property? He paid $6.5 million for it in stolen funds in 2008 and is still enjoying it. Madoff Trustee Irving Picard has sued both Madoff boys and presumably this house has … Continue reading
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So what happened to this in shalla business?
Saudi hajj numbers down 40% from Swine Flu panic. Babies.
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New home sales rise in south, decline in rest of country
Hardly a bug whoop to me, but Wall Street will take what encouragement it can get these days. We have a housing market sustained by a paltry $8,000 give-away and cheap interest rates subsidized by the government, plus no-deposit loans, again. I … Continue reading
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The Europeans can say what U.S. papers won’t: Obama’s whimp act does him no good
Remember how the world hated us because Bush was so arrogant (and Reagan, but never mind). Obama was going to fix that by crawling on all fours around the globe, bowing to dictators and licking their boots and lo, the world would … Continue reading
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Darn it, all the good stuff happens when I’m away
Acting a tip to Chief David Ridberg himself, Greenwich’s finest travelled to Norwalk and busted a woman who claimed to be a cop. Turns out that she is one, but Ridberg was unapologetic about the devotion of manpower sent to apprehend the alleged … Continue reading
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Gay camo fashion
I suggested to a friend of mine that he and his companion would fit more comfortably in the rural community they weekend in if they found some matching camoflauge outfits to prance around in. He assured me that, if I … Continue reading
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