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Hillary Clinton is once again hurt by a high-profile sex scandal.
Thanks to Eliot Spitzer’s (aka Client 9) rendezvous with a petite, brunette, American woman-of-the-night named “Kristen,” in a Washington D.C. hotel room, his resignation from office is eminent. Sources tell the Associated Press an official resignation announcement will come today (March 12) at 11:30 am EST.
Once Spitzer steps down, he will be replaced by his Lieutenant Governor David Paterson. David Paterson’s post will then be filled by the president of the New York State Senate Joseph Bruno. Bruno is a Republican and is not a fan of Spitzer (to say the least) (Bruno was to be steamrolled by our philandering governor).
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I am a fan of the Discovery Channel and the History Channel, they usually work nicely when there isn’t much on television, always nice to tune in and see what Mike Rowe is up to or to see some one struggling to survive on an crab fishing boat, driving to and from a diamond mind in the Arctic, or lost in the wilderness.
In fact, the lost in the wilderness concept is so popular it has spawned two shows, both on Discovery Survivorman and Man vs. Wild. Survivorman has Les Stroud, an American a Canadian, with his own with a camera or two, stomping around in the wilderness, setting up his shots and then going back, breaking down the camera and moving on to his next shot. The idea is to survive the wilderness and make it back to civilization some how. Man vs. Wild features Bear Grylls a British ex-SAS “adventurer,” stomping through the wild, with a camera crew in tow, also stranded in the wild and trying to make his way back to civilization.
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I’ve written about how the NY Times has used material that we have written about (and gotten their facts wrong… Isn’t that what fact checkers are suppose to do? Check facts, make sure they arent wrong) and New York Magazine.
Today’s theft of materials comes to us from Thrillist:
Gear: Headhoods
$40-55 at Headhoods.com
Sure these start with a ubiquitous American Apparel canvas, but pulling up the hood reveals that the side’ve been hand-printed with profiles of the King of Hearts, gorilla man, Elvis, and other figures so cool, you’ll need a second, over-hoodie so they too can shroud themselves in the coveted street look they so richly deserve to rock.
Appearing in “The List” a few days after I posted it on our site… A little too coincidental if you ask me. I at least had the good grace of contacting HeadHoods and asking some questions before writing them up. (also I believe it should be “sides’ve”). Give credit where credit is due, at least they found a different picture to use.
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When it happens with New York Magazine, well, I don’t mind, ’cause, really, who reads New York Magazine?
When it happens with the New York Times, that’s a different story.
Buying into the Green Movement is an article that discusses how just because a product is labeled ‘green’ or ‘organic’ doesn’t necessarily make it better for the environment. Organic Raspberries flown in from Chili in the middle of winter are not helping the environment, the answer, according to the Times, is not eating raspberries in winter.
Oddly, the NY Times, even after cribbing my examples of Whole Foods, Home Depot and every other company jumping on the bandwagon still manages to misstate facts that it published itself: The article states that customers can “browse among the 60,000 products available under Home Depot’s new Eco-Options program.” In the article the published on June 25th (which I wrote about here), they state that companies submitted 60,000 products to be considered for the Eco-Options line, and that of those only 2,500 were selected (and they are looking for a total of about 6,000 products for the Eco-Options program). I mean, if you can’t be bothered to read your own paper….
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A recent comment to my old Perry Street review left me writing a too-long response in the comments section. I think it deserves a wider airing here.
Stevie Vong points out that he had recently eaten at Perry Street and
The food was delicious. Does the author has no taste? Or was so drunk, couldn’t taste the food?
The rabbit especially- very tasty. That new avocado, mushroom with jalapeno appetizer is to die for.
You want taste…go to Spice Market…if you don’t taste the food- it’s you!
I responded with an indictment of the Citysearch comments section. It’s not their fault, actually. It’s just hard to know if overly positive comments are spam or if these people can’t stop taking happy pills.
My reply, and Andy Rooney, after this jump:
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