Some of the September 11th killers flew right over the Indian Point Nuclear Power plant on their way to NYC. Perhaps they didn’t crash into the “Energy Center” (that’s really what it calls itself) because it looks just like a big mosque. You never know.
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg usually makes sense. I particularly like it when he berates citizenry over common sense issues. “People,” he whines, “You gotta stop [fill in the blank].” Makes me all sheepish and look at my toes and mumble, “Sorry, Mister Mayor.” And I didn’t even do what he’s complaining about! Of course it’s not cool to like…
The terrorists, Christian Michael Enright, said, “Assalamu alaikum — consider this a checkpoint!” and slashed Muslim American Ahmed Sharif across the neck, and then on the face from his nose to his upper lip. Sharif said: “I feel very sad. … I have been here more than 25 years. I have been driving a taxi more than 15 years. All…
I wasn’t going to post on this… perhaps other than to say it’s absurd that we’re debating the right of a people in our country to build a house of worship. It’s kind of like debating legal segregation. Haven’t we moved past this a long time ago? (Or not so long ago in the case of racial segregation.) I don’t…
New York Representative Anthony Weiner writes aboutwhy he got angry on the house floor. Good on ya, Tony. It’s a shame that those who wrap themselves in the flag and take “patriotic” photo-ops in my city won’t put their money behind their mouth.
It’s Everybody Draw Mohammed Day! I love free speech. I also like South Park a lot more than I like religious zealots. I also like being able to write this without being arrested (or killed). This is the cartoon that started it all: Since I can’t draw, I’m just going to reprint the drawings of others.
A US citizen from Pakistan. The story in the New York Times.
Kudos to the NYPD and the bomb squad for doing their job well. That work is no joke. In her wonderful The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs wrote, “It does not take many incidents of violence to make people fear the streets. And as they fear them, they use them less, which makes the streets still…
If Tennessee Republican Congressman John Duncan is to be believed, we spend $860 million for the Air Marshal Service. They make an average of 4.2 arrests per year. Not per officer. But the entire agency. That works out to $200 million per arrest. Now I’m the first to say let’s not judge police by arrest stats. But… I would like…
So what’s the lesson with this guy? Seriously. It’s damn hard to stop people from doing harm if they’re willing to kill themselves… but that’s no real answer. Here’s one of many stories. [poor Nigeria, their rep was bad enough with simply internet scams!] [update:] Maybe it’s this, from David Brooks’ column in the New York Times. At some point,…