Saturday, November 16, 2024
We journeyed to Great Neck to have dinner with intrepid fellow travelers Jill & Steve at Lola’s, 113 Middle Neck Road, a sleek restaurant with a Mediterranean menu and indefinite decor. All 20 tables were full, a good thing, and the noise level was very high, a bad thing.
We journeyed to Great Neck to have dinner with intrepid fellow travelers Jill & Steve at Lola’s, 113 Middle Neck Road, a sleek restaurant with a Mediterranean menu and indefinite decor. All 20 tables were full, a good thing, and the noise level was very high, a bad thing.
I ordered the schnitzel, two chicken paillards, pounded thin, breaded then fried. They were grease-free, but a bit dry, and accompanied by smooth-as-silk mashed potatoes ($31). I grabbed a bit of the tasty linguine with shrimp in a creamy tomato sauce that Steve ordered ($36).
The women shared four vegetarian dishes, so they were safe from my intervention.
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Property tax increases are the price of success, population growth causing expanding need for public services and higher property values. For better or worse, Florida takes the lead in this area, still another reason I ain’t moving there.
https://www.redfin.com/news/
Sunday, November 17, 2024
I spent the morning and early afternoon doing the most improbable thing — appearing in a snack food commercial. I play the Old Man, completely out of character.
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Walking around the city these days, the decline in retail activity is evident. There seems to be too many empty stores in almost every neighborhood, some from even before Covid. There is one very bright spot, however. "From 2000 to 2023, the number of restaurants in the city nearly doubled, climbing to over 21,170.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/
“A surge of restaurants -- led by Mexican, Japanese and Caribbean kitchens, most of them outside Manhattan -- have played a big role in the city's storefront revival.”
https://abc7ny.com/amp/post/
How can I possibly keep up?
Monday, November 18, 2024
Some California-based friends are going to a wedding in Israel soon. They are worried about physical threats and asked my opinion. I found this comparison of fear of crime in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/
As we know, perception is often more powerful than reality. Our airwaves were recently inundated with political commercials that seemed to bring crime right to our front door, while, in fact, statistically crime is at a 50-year low.
https://www.snopes.com/news/
So, is your picture of Tel Aviv the sunny Mediterranean beaches or Hezbollah rocket fire? Is your picture of Los Angeles Rodeo Drive or drive by shootings?
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The October 5, 2001 edition of the New York Law Journal quoted me as saying: “If it was up to me, you couldn’t go to law school until you’re 35 years old.” Sophia Park of Visalia, California ignored my advice. At age 17 years, 8 months, she has just passed the California State Bar Examination, probably the hardest in the country.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/
This is considered a record, exceeding last year’s 17-year, 11-month prodigy, her older brother. By the way, when I uttered those words of wisdom I was one month from passing the New York State Bar Examination at age 59-years, 9-months.
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Speaking of educational accomplishment, the felonious president announced the appointment of Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education. Ms. McMahon brings her distinguished record as co-founder and chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment.
She has already proposed a significant design change to classrooms.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., esteemed healthcare expert, has informed us about “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” https://nypost.com/Therefore, with little at risk, this Ashkenazi Jew and several of his Ashkenazi Jewish friends had lunch in Chinatown today. We chose Jing Fong, 202 Centre Street, the dim sum specialist, reduced in size from its previous barn-like setting on Elizabeth Street.
The eight of us ate a lot, 25 dim sum dishes, two to six pieces on a plate, a serving of lo mein and beverages. When all was said and done, it was $32 a person without an Oxford comma.
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Making America Great Again, Again Department
“Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, which could threaten health coverage for tens of millions of poor Americans”
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Republicans are putting a rapist in the White House, but keeping a trans woman out of the ladies room in the House of Representatives.
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Johnny Carson was the king of late night television when there were few options at 11:30 at night, although “he did have competition, like turning off the television or talking to your spouse.”
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In 2021, Beverly Crawford Ames, UC Berkeley political scientist, inadvertently summarized the 2024 presidential election: “liberal values of equality, tolerance, the rule of law, and rational debate chafe against . . . the inherent liberal neglect of the human need for status, community, heroes, and the impulse to unleash passionate grievances”
Friday, November 22, 2024
September 11th, October 7th, November 22nd, December 7th.
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Judged by the appointments announced, the entire second Trump administration will be covered by a non-disclosure agreement.
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Americans tend to admire rich people, believing that they, as do the rich themselves, are special, smarter than average. And then along comes a banana taped to the wall.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/
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Even though Stony Brook Steve and I sat next to the self-identified owner of Two Boots Pizza Upper West Side, 70 West 71st Street, that didn't rescue the over-priced, stale slices of pizza that I got.
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“Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars.”
After you.
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