Rachael Ray, Enemy of the People

It seems that some people think wearing a scarf supports terrorism.

I think that maybe Malkin and crew are onto something here.

It must have started when celebrity chef Rachael Ray visited the Middle East to do her "Gaza on $40 a Day" show. She was probably kidnapped and brainwashed. I could tell because she started making all kinds of foreign-type things on her "30 Minute Meals" show, like cous cous, kabobs and spaghetti (you know that those Sacco and Vanzetti guys were anarchists, right?) . And what's more, she still calls fried potatoes by that other name, not "Freedom Fries."

So it's a really good thing we have Malkin and crew looking out for us, shining the bright light of freedom on the Rachael Rays of the world. But I wonder why she's not writing anything about this.

But seriously folks, if you want to read an intelligent perspective on the issue, check this out.

Jersey Thieves...Um, I mean Guys

It seems the Jersey Guys recently urged their listeners to photoshop a photo of them and send it in their site.

Here's my version:




Wow! Howard's already been doing this for ages. Like Howard, they also have a daily recap of their show on the site. These guys are so unoriginal, they have to lift Web site ideas from the King of All Media.


I'd link to them, but why bother with the copycats when you can have the real thing?

The Fox News route

It looks like Jeff Whelan and Josh Margolin of the Star Ledger are taking the Fox News route, in a story about the McGreevey divorce:

Some had wondered whether she knew about her husband's homosexuality and kept silent because theirs was a marriage of convenience, a suspicion McGreevey's book disputed.

"Some had wondered..."? How about a little attribution there, fellas? Y'know when that whole debacle took place, "some had" also "wondered" where the Statehouse press corps was.

Oh, the hypocrisy...

Michelle Malkin is for free speech.

Unless she's against it.

"What gall."

Yes, Jill. What gall, indeed.

The *REAL* West New York...

I just got done reading DJ Rix's account of his visit to West New York, or rather a waterfront development in West New York.

While that spit of land between the Hudson River and the cliffs may officially lie within West New York's boundaries, it isn't really part of West New York. And Rix rightly refers to that in his post:

The place we visited had a lobby with beautiful marble floors, nicely appointed sales & rental offices, & classical music coming out of the ceilings. Everyone was friendly to us, & why not? Just like the hard hats on the half-finished project across the new cobblestone street, they didn't live there either.

That's so true, it makes me want to cry. The people who actually live there wouldn't be caught dead beyond the cliffs. You'll never find them shopping on Bergenline Avenue, running into a bodega for a quart of milk, or buying a Jersey Journal.

I recall reading an article in the New York Times a few years back in which a resident of the Galaxy towers in Guttenberg was decrying the fact that it was very expensive for him to go food shopping because he had to take the ferry over to Manhattan. I wanted to find this guy and squeeze his neck and scream in his face that he didn't have to do that because Pinnacle, a perfectly fine supermarket on Bergenline Avenue and 68th Street is just 5 blocks from where he lives.

The only time you might find the Gold Coasters above the cliff is on a bright sunny day, walking through the park on Boulevard East, admiring the view that they pay all that money for. And they probably don't even realize that the park is named for Thomas Donnelly, an activist who helped preserve that land from being developed upon.

The Gold Coasters may live in West New York, but they'll never be West New Yorkers.

If you think my posting is light now...

I've been accepted to Pace Law School.