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  1. If Bloomers gets relected (by the will of the people today) I wonder if all those commentators ranting about Bloomberg subverting the will of the people (of X years ago) are gonna shuddup.

  2. DIBS asked about the Brownstoner sweatshirt in the Martha video. A couple of years ago we took some orders and got a batch made, so there are 10 or 12 floating around out there, though we’ve never seen anyone sporting one on the street. If peeps are interested, we can do another batch. Think they were about $50, because they are American Apparel sweatshirts with the lettering actually sewn on.

  3. fuck, shit, vagina, cock, dick, prick, pussy, twat, one-eyed trouser snake, tally-whacker, heat-seeking love missile, beef bayonet, wedding tackle, pork sword, little soldier, baloney poney, my little pony, my other head, power drill, magic wand, joystick, jack hammer, frankfurter, Captain Winkie, summer sausage, jack-in-the-box, kitty, punani, vajayjay, cooter, cha cha, honey pot, coochie, muff, hoo ha, beaver, box, bits and pieces, yum yum, poon, lady business, goodies, na na, lala, cho cho.

    I thought brownstoner was filter-free… so we can be as filthy as we want to be? (And periodically chastised by the more Puritan readers for over use of the ‘F bomb’)

  4. All right, I think rob’s had the final word on the global war on terrorism.

    Meanwhile, good post, denton. We live in a very different city than we did in 1989 or 1975. NYC is far better run than it was 30+ years ago, due to the efforts of the last four mayors (and they all deserve some credit here). Bloomberg has continued to professionalize the way things are done, to his credit, but it is wrong to think that a different mayor will undermine those or the previous mayors’ efforts. For example, crime, does anyone really think Thompson will lay off thousands of cops or make them stop using comstat, or that the amount of crime is solely a function of who is mayor? The 20-year decline in violent crime was a national trend on which NYC was a leader, but not an exception. There are good reasons to vote for either candidate, but let’s keep things in perspective.

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