Wednesday - September 23, 2009

Mike Bloomberg Is Trying To Kill You With Healthiness  @9:00 AM

I have very mixed feelings about this Times Dining piece on Mayor Bloomberg, who wants to reduce the amount of sodium in processed food yet eats plenty of salt himself. Also? He will eat the occasional Big Mac, yet insists that the calorie count be posted. And? He was once a smoker, but continues to make cigarettes more expensive and less socially acceptable. I understand the value of a good "oh, the hypocrisy" piece as well as anyone, and God knows it is plenty easy to look at the mayor and see a tiny Jewish tyrant bent on forcing the people of this city to do his will, but, really, is it that binary? READ MORE 25

Monday - September 14, 2009

New York City To Try Ban On Smoking In Parks & Beaches  @5:04 PM

"The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, announced on Monday that the Bloomberg administration would seek to ban smoking in city parks and beaches." ALSO BREAKING: New York To Be Renamed "Pussy City." 18