Happy New Year!
I’d like to be able to say that I am creative enough to come up with a spectacular year-in-review list but I’m afraid I’m not; we’ll leave that to others. I would like to use this post to talk about things I’m thankful for this year:
New Year’s Eve Open Thread
I’m continuing from yesterday doing what a lot of people do this time of year: Cleaning out stuff to either throw away or give to Good Will. Took four big bags of clothes and a half a bag of shoes there yesterday, and have some other stuff to take today. Oh, and Christmas is officially over at Casa de ST as all decorations are down.
Brain-dead moral equivalence
Colman McCarthy at the Washington Post:
The Constitution is just too confusing!
Well, it is for Ezra Klein, one of the Washington Post’s bloggers. You see, it’s over 100 years old and the language is just too confusing:
Report: Sanitation union deliberately slowed down snow plow efforts in NYC
The New York Post has an explosive report this morning on how the Sanitation Union deliberately slowed down snow plow efforts in NYC as a form of “payback” of sorts for Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s budget cuts: