Steve Osborne, a retired lieutenant with the New York City Police Department, turns in a depressing yet predictable op-ed for the New York Times. It is a measure of restraint, but only a measure, that Lt. Osborne does not go nearly as far as Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, who notoriously announced…
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Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Lemme put this way, kid: diehard Freudians die hard. Just keep your head down and keep talking.” “Don’t worry, kid. If they nick you, the session’s on me.” “Okay, so how does this make you feel?” “So what did your boyfriend say when you told him your analyst told you you were…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “You know what they say, Ferguson: ‘An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.’ Oh, and suck on this: ‘O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can…
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Legal humor here. “It’s the old ‘some pigs are more equal than others’ thing come back to bite us in the ass.” “He says he’s always depended on the kindness of strangers, but I’d say that ‘gullibility’ is more à propos.” “Don’t sweat it. We’ll get fat. He’ll get slaughtered. I’ve seen it a thousand…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. All cartoons here. and here “Now, I know you all have a lot of questions about a lot of things, but first let me assure that retractable and non-retractable will be treated alike by me.” “And, when it comes to butt-sniffing, well, we’re all adults here. No need to be squeamish, but…
Peter G. Peterson, fighting for you and me. And sometimes Japan
In a recent article appearing in Politico magazine, Charles Lewis, founder of the grandly titled Center for Public Integrity, an outfit dedicated to aggressive investigative journalism, tells a tale from the 1980s about his less than grand experiences with the legendary CBS TV show 60 Minutes. My last 60 Minutes segment, “Foreign Agent,” featured well-known…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Fuck it. I’m outa here. I did my job.” “It’ll fall when it’s ready to fall. There’s no sense in forcing these things.” “What’s its problem? How should I know? I just chew ‘em, I don’t explain ‘em.” “Damn birches are slower than AOL. I’m going for a swim.” “You wait for…
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Legal humor here. “He says a dame like me should be going places, and, frankly, Ogg, I’m beginning to think he’s right.” “Well, of course he’s from that new tribe across the river. Where did you think he was from?” “He says it’s time we started monetizing our assets.” “I’m not making a comparison. The…
Broads in the news: NYT’s Jill Abramson offers mouth to mouth to WP’s Katy Weymouth
As everyone in Washington, DC knows, the Washington Post is in free fall to the crapper, thanks to, well, thanks to a lot of things, but the gleaming, glistening cherry on top of this sundae o’ disaster is the stunning ethical incompetence of publisher Katy Weymouth and editorial page director Fred Hewitt, whose multitudinous shortcomings…
Opinion or Advertising? The Times’ lazy red pencil
A dude named Lowell G. McAdam has an opinion piece in the New York Times today praising the “regulatory restraint” practiced right here in the U.S.A. regarding broadband access to the Internet, contrasting it with the mort main of the regulatory state in Europe. I’m quite willing to believe that everything in Mr. McAdam’s piece…