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  1. BHS, your post was a classic statement of moral equivalency. Everyone’s equally right and wrong kind of thing. No, people are almost never equally right and wrong.

    I’m going to go read the Old Testament now.

  2. I agree with you Ishtar. I know a number of sanit workers, and they are some of the biggest hearted, most hardworking people I know. They have a crap job and get no respect.I don’t know a single person on the OT who would work under the conditions they do. Certainly not the lawyers 😉

  3. I was not here, so I have no proof one way or the other. I do know that I read stories of both Sanitation and MTA employees putting in very long shifts to get the job done.

    I also know from experience with natural disasters in both the Gulf Coast and California that there are public employees who really rise to the occasion in time of need.

    I don’t think that unionized government employees here are that much different here than elsewhere.

  4. I believe the number of workers who showed up and did their job outnumbers those who didn’t. We just have an unfortunate situation of enough jackasses being jackasses and having a substantial impact. Of course I have absolutely no proof of this. I simply believe that people in general aim to do the right thing.

  5. New York is a great place to lose one’s hoarding tendancies. I went from storing virtually everything I ever had since childhood to becoming a minimalist.

    ha ha biff,
    does that mean you are in the Pro- Recessed Lighting camp now?

  6. Wait, slope, that’s not a happy ending? The other day an 18 year old Korean massage therapist asked me if I wanted a happy ending and I broke a plate glass window trying to escape before she shot me. She had been petting and saying nice things, so I knew what was next.

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