Archive for March 30th, 2010

I Dislike The Post “Even More.”

30th March
2010
written by jed

Full-page photo on today’s front cover of an NYPD officer decked out in “Counter Assault” gear (complete with M16 assault rifle) freaking out commuters on a subway train (MACHINE GUN KELLY: NYPD chief orders subway firepower). See, (at least) 38 people were killed at two Moscow subway stations by two female suicide bombers early yesterday morning. So the NYPD is stepping up their presence in our subways.

Does it matter that the women were (most likely) members of a terrorist group that vowed revenge on the Russian government for killing their leader, Sayid Buryatsky? And that the other 28 members of that group who were trained by Buryatsky have vowed to continue to strike Russia (and not Manhattan)?

Maybe the beefed-up security will help save the life of the next drunken moron that throws trash at people with knives?

Ricky Martin has announced that he’s gay, leading millions to ask, “Who was Ricky Martin?”

The rest of Menudo could not be reached until they finish restocking the Fritos.

I hope that the wind and rain (which helped destroy yet another of our umbrellas this morning) doesn’t delay my mother’s flight tonight. I was at my folks’ place yesterday and my father is barely surviving on dry cereal and rain water.

Lindsey DeLeon claims that Robert Brot didn’t try to save her from a life of prostitution — he’s the one who made introduced her to it! She claims that, after they “met” on Sugardaddie.com (um, red flag?), he became her pimp and posted ads online to get her customers.

This story just keeps getting better!

A copy of Action Comics #1 sold yesterday for $1,500,000.

I have high hopes for my 30 copies of Spawn #1.

Mayor Bloomberg is against the legalization of marijuana because “it may very well lead to greater use of stronger drugs.”

Like alcohol.

Health no! Poll raps reform plan is the headline. The first sentence is “Nearly half of Americans want to repeal the health-care-reform law signed by President Obama last week, according to a poll released yesterday.”

The second sentence is “The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey found that 47 percent of voters support overturning most or all of the major changes.”

The third sentence is “Fifty percent would either leave the law as it is or support more extensive government-run reforms.”

I guess the headline More Americans like reform plan than don’t wouldn’t fit.

In June 2006, cabby Hassan Afzal was driving four passengers on the West Side Highway. He was (and is) epileptic, but decided weeks earlier to stop taking his anti-seizure medication. He had a seizure and crashed the car, killing Danielle Ricco, 21, and injuring Anna Sallustio, 20 (shattered leg and pelvis), her sister Enza Sallustio, 25 (two-week coma from head injuries), and Amy Vallarelli, 25 (fractured pelvis, shattered femur), who is finally able to walk unassisted (almost four years later).

For years, Afzal insisted that faulty brakes were to blame, but he finally admitted that it was an epileptic seizure that caused the crash. And that he had lied on numerous licensing forms over the years to get and keep his job.

He just struck a no-jail plea deal and was sentenced to “five years’ probation for criminally negligent homicide.”

Whither justice?

Phoebe Prince, 15, was always being picked on at her high school (South Hadley HS in Northampton, Massachusetts) from the first day she arrived (she moved to the town last summer from Ireland). Not just picked on, but “a nearly three-month campaign of verbally assaultive behavior and threats of physical harm” that was “designed to humiliate her and to make it impossible for her to remain at school.” She was also harassed on Facebook and “in other electronic forms.”

Phoebe hung herself in January. Now, nine students are facing criminal charges in her death.

I’d imagine that most, if not all, of those students are Red Sox fans.

I’m on page 19 and I’ve already seen 8 full-page ads for Macy’s.

More fun with polls!

According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair phone poll, 50% of Americans would be OK with a gay president and “even more said they’d support a gay Miss America or NFL quarterback.”

How many? “Even more.”

No more specifics are offered. That’s just how the Post rolls.

According to Page Six (today on page 20), Heather Mills’ former nanny (she nannied Mills’ daughter, not Mills) has come forward to tell anyone who will listen that Mills was “rude” and “horrible” to her when she was in her employ.

In other news, the sky is above us, water is wet and Ricky Martin is gay.

Mischa Barton was seen vomiting outside a bar in L.A. this weekend.

She’s terrific.

I promise I’m not asking this sarcastically.

How is it possible to have a “Christian militia group” waging war against the federal government? And ploting to kill a random police officer to start that war?

I’m no Christian, but isn’t there something in that book they like so much about not murdering the innocent? Or loving their fellow man? I mean, at what point do you have to remove “Christian” from your militia’s title? And will someone in the Christian hierarchy come forward to denounce this group’s actions?

I just don’t understand.

It’s all over.

The Nets won again last night, making them 10-64 (13.5%).

Congratulations, Nets. You’re not the all-time worst. But you’re still remarkably terrible.

The Yankees might be sending Pat Venditte to the mound today. Pat is expected to start in the Yankees’ Double-A system this season. But Pat is unlike any othr pitcher in any other system.

He uses a six-fingered baseball glove with two thumb holes. Is he a mutant? Kind of. He’s a “switch-pitcher” — he can pitch with either hand.

Because of Pat, a new rule was enacted which states that he has to tell the umpire which hand he’ll use before he pitches to each batter.

He was 4-2 with 22 saves and a 1.87 ERA for Single-A Charleston and Single-A Tampa in 49 games last year.

Remember his name.

Mark Teixeira was hit by a pitch yesterday, bruising his right elbow.

Doctors said nothing is broken and he should be fine in a few days.

Opening Day is Sunday in Boston.

I am giddy with excitement.

Linda Stasi absolutely adores True Crime with Aphrodite Jones and she calls this Thursday’s episode (focusing on Phil Spector) “like hitting the lottery on your birthday.”

She gives it three stars.

Seriously.

If you like laughing at stupid people, tune in to MTV tonight at 7:00 for 16 & Pregnant. That’s followed at 8:00 by 16 & Pregnant. At 9:00, there’s 16 & Pregnant, which is followed at 10:00 by an all-new episode of 16 & Pregnant. You know what’s on at 11:00? 16 & Pregnant.

Music Television, ladies and gentlemen.

It sounds like it has stopped raining. Time to go grocery shopping (while I still have a bus to take me to the store).

Stay dry, kids. And classy.

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