This Park Slope firehouse, Engine 220, is one of the 20 or so firehouses slated to be closed under the proposed City budget. So they're fighting back, with a big sign! So far, they report, they've saved 11 lives this year. Um, it's June already! That's like just two lives a month. What do the firefighters do the other 27 days of the month, you know?

"He just rolled up and trolled. He went into a venue where people have elected to be, and told everyone that their presence there makes them stupid. He then laments that he did not receive more positive responses from within that forum itself."
—Well, yes, here you go. As someone said earlier today, if Times mag editor Hugo Lindgren really wanted to be a big man, he could probably kick it up a notch by firing his boss and columnist, Bill Keller.

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Poor Fox News can barely fill out five slots in its wonderful "DESPOT HOUSEWIVES" charticle, but still it is a splendid and hilarious thing to behold. Unfortunately they run out of steam by number 5: "Parvin Ahmadinejad is very rarely seen even when beheld in public, as her hard-line husband follows a strict form of Islam that requires women to wear a full-body hijab. In fact, almost nothing is known about Mrs. Ahmadinejad — her age, her schooling, her sign of the Zodiac –because she stands quietly by in a conservative Muslim theocracy, where women are raped the night before executions and face up to 80 lashes for refusing to cover their hair." WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE WOMAN AND HER HORRIBLE RAPEY COUNTRY! Also, "Jimmy Choo-style"? Was it a knockoff or not? What gives?