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It’s going to take a lot more than a pair of ruby slippers.
Remember last year? When saying there was a fast approaching conflagration in housing and the financial markets drunk with the foolish optimism (or craven short-sightedness) that those same markets were a foolproof way to mint profits would get you mauled by brokers and their lapdogs like fresh venison covered in honey in a bear den? […]
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Everyone say the serenity prayer with me.
I briefly considered writing an entire post about the SLA (State Liquor Authority) as if I had it confused with the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army). But that would prove technically complex, and likely not worth the payoff. Plus, the only thing I know about the SLA (the latter) is what I gleaned from Doonesbury collections […]
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Masters of None.
That old canard about being money not being worth the paper its printed on? Well, if three is a trend story, but your sample set maxes out at five, arguing that investment banks turned out to not be worth the buildings they are housed seems like a viable argument, even if that only turns out […]
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One would hope this would be the last of ‘these’; one would be a fool.
Writing a post about the World Trade Center is appallingly easy, a gross natural resource of failure, seemingly malicious incompetence, an almost perverse effort by all those involved to identify perhaps the best — should we even admit just qualifiers — possible path, so that when they upend it and crawl inexorably down its inverse, […]
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VOTE: Primary Day, Tuesday, September 9
“Without general elections, without unrestrained freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution… in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.” — Rosa Luxemborg We’re all friends here, right? And by friends, I mean Democrats. Okay, I know there’s some outliers. Someone has […]
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Please stick to the rivers and lakes you’re used to.
So I’ve seen all four of Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls via automobile, at a leisurely jogging pace, and from a couple of vistas while cycling. I haven’t walked down there yet. Honestly, I don’t know I have the interest in making a specific journey, having seen them more than once now via the means listed. There’s […]
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Nowhere is my home.
The three plus year battle of the Economakis family (or parasitic, exploitative real estate clan, depending on where you side in the battle) to convert 47 E. Third Street, an unremarkable tenement, into a ‘single’ family unit (single in quotes because they have indicated it will also serve to provide guest space for their extended […]
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Did you miss me? Wait, don’t answer that.
Reading the Robb Report is like subscribing to Playboy. The narrowness of the fetish and the finite boundaries mean that incremental shifts of style get outsized attention as new, or sexier versions of the old. A good Ferrari only comes along once a generation, but that doesn’t stop gallons of ink from being spilled about […]
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Field of ‘Hey, get your hands off my wallet!’