Posts Tagged: the more you know the more you wish you didn’t know
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Jersey Mayhem: Man Uses Domestic Animal To Commit Domestic Abuse

"Hoboken police were dispatched to the 300 block of Marshall Dr., and a 20-year-old Jersey City woman was crying and told police that her boyfriend punched her a few times and hit her with a 'feline cat,' reports said. She said she had pain to her lower back and the back of her head, reports said." -Wow. I've been surprised at the lack of mayhem in the Garden State lately. I was thinking maybe the rest of state's residents had thrown in the towel 'til Snooki moved to Hollywood for good. But yesterday, in Jersey City, a man was arrested for attacking a woman with a cat. The [...]

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Oil Spill: It Could Always Be Worse, But That Won't Make You Any Happier

Somehow I thought Elisabeth Rosenthal's perspective on the oil spill in today's Times Green blog might make me feel better. "It is important to remember that this mammoth polluting event, so extraordinary here, is not so unusual in some parts of the world," she writes, pointing to the reporting of John Vidal from the oil fields in the Niger Delta in Africa.