FAO Schwarz is closing its flagship Manhattan store because the toy giant can not keep up with the rent increases. The 5th avenue store was harrowing and a far cry from the satellite stores that existed in the 1960’s and 70’s. Ours was in a suburban Philadelphia shopping mall that also housed Lord & Taylor and […]
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I just watched “The Stepford Wives” again, criminy that’s a great, ahead-of-its-time feminist movie. If they could *build* a woman to cook, clean, provide buttsecks, wash their car, etc.., how many Republican men would be tempted? No alimony when you traded her in on a newer model. Or put’em to work, buy booze etc., with their […]
from NYTimes Sure wish someone was “videotaping” . Jeb Bush at a town-hall-style meeting in Reno, Nev., on Wednesday.Credit James Glover/Reuters . RENO, Nev. — “Your brother created ISIS,” the young woman told Jeb Bush. And with that, Ivy Ziedrich, a 19-year-old college student, created the kind of confrontational moment here on Wednesday morning that presidential […]
Some anti-Muslim extremists in garland, Texas were attacked by a couple of Muslim extremists yesterday, proving that America needs to take much more extreme measures to protect itself from Muslim extremists.Paid for by psychopath Pam Geller, her American Patriots and gun-toting jihadists. My only regret is that they all couldn’t be stuffed in a wormhole […]
The Jimmy Winkfield Stakes June 12, 2014 | by Michael Lipkin A racetrack in obsolescence. Photo: Ilya Lipkin Every year on the third Monday of January, the Aqueduct Racetrack, in South Ozone Park, Queens, runs a six-furlong race in honor of Jimmy Winkfield. The choice of date, Martin Luther King Day, is not accidental. Of Winkfield’s many accomplishments, […]
There are two ways to look at global warming: The Good News–Global warming is caused by human activities. This is good because we can do something about it. The Bad News–Global warming is NOT caused by human activities. This is bad because we can’t do a damned thing about it. The Bad News COULD still […]