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God voted the straight Democratic ticket on November 4, decisively rejecting John McCain and Sarah Palin’s bid for the presidency and vice-presidency, respectively. And Americans obeyed God’s will by sweeping Republicans out of office across the country, devastating the GOP on the national, state, and local levels. The results leave the Republican Party decimated. The […] I don’t want to argue Sarah Palin’s merits (whatever they may be) and demerits (which you should feel biting you on the ass). I think that, for better and for worse, they speak for themselves, just as she does. Instead, I want to respond to what I think is the truly, deeply dumb question asked […] I’m back. And so is this column. I stopped writing and publishing it in June 2003, when the last “Island Living” column appeared in print in the North Shore Star Reporter, a local giveaway paper here on Staten Island that accepted some editorial content, my column included. In the paper’s February 5, 2003 issue my […] Now that I’ve come back home, I have to get with the program. When people here ask what other languages I speak, I understand that according to the new social policy here in the States the politically correct answer is not French but Freedom. And that, along those same lines, when I dress up to take my girlfriend out this weekend to celebrate my return, I’ll put on a shirt with Freedom cuffs, while she’ll don some sexy Freedom lingerie and splash on a little fancy Freedom cologne. […] My prediction: Watch Dubya and Co. try to use this unexpected advantage to pack every court, from the Supreme Court on down, with arch-conservatives whose benighted rulings will haunt this country for a century and more. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when your train gets lost. […] Just days after the destruction of the World Trade Center, our pundits and politicians starting talking about “finding closure” and telling us to “get back to normal.” Reminds me, oddly, of a cartoon (probably from the New Yorker) I saw in the late 1950s. Somewhere by the road in a desert, an Arab has unrolled […] Rudy Giuliani's official portrait Face it: even for his staunchest supporters, Rudy Giuliani’s unstable behavior over the past two years has become increasingly embarrassing. Let’s leave aside his doctrinal, knee-jerk support for any behavior toward citizens of color by any New York City policeman, no matter how lethal, excessive, or otherwise irresponsible. Let’s ignore […] Once again I’m coming back from Europe — this time from a stint in Swizerland and Austria, on a flight from Paris to Newark, finding myself seated, improbably, next to two other Staten Islanders, Cristina and her mother Alida, from Tottenville, who appear to have survived three and half weeks of up-close-and-personal mother-daugher and extended-family […] No one paid closer attention to the media feeding frenzy surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. than Steven Brill. In his analysis of the press coverage of that event in his new magazine, Brill’s CONTENT (“Curiosity vs. Privacy,” October 1999),1 the eponymous periodical’s chairman and editor-in-chief considered and critiqued the media’s increasing intrusion […] Lately I’m pondering the case of scholar and teacher Mary Daly, about whose current struggle with Boston University you may have heard. Daly, referred to by one supporter as “a radical feminist star,”1 found her courses dropped from the catalogue by this university, at which she’d taught for decades, when she chose not to obey […] |