This is a very sad story about the top three wonks in New York City: Jefrey Pollock, Howard Wolfson and Josh Isay, all campaign ops super-spooks. Oh, they were friends, and then not friends, and then friends again, and sometimes their wives worked out together, and they were very young and now less young, and some of them got weird and now only eat salads and don't talk to people much, and some of them were already weird and phobic and just got weirder and more phobic, and sometimes Howard was making $40,000 a month (like right now!) to manage the talking points for the hotly-contested (kidding!) Bloomberg mayoral [...]