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March 14, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere...
NYShitty.com, New York Shitty Day Starter: Nothing’s Sacred
Inasmuch as I hate to admit it there is a great deal of veracity to be found in the above cynic’s comment. Everything is for sale in our fair city. Whether one wants to sell or not is immaterial. It’s simply of matter of money, political influence and legal chicanery. We’re the easiest city money can buy.
There are many— religious types mostly— who consider New York City to be the whore of Babylon. They may very well be correct. Whores are capitalists in the purest sense. They do it for the money. New Yorkers do it for the money. Our god is the dollar and time is money.
What has come to pass at Atlantic Yards has reduced our fair city from being a whore to a slut. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free— or better yet at tax payer’s expense?
...P.S.: This post goes out to Marty Markowitz who said and I quote (from Curbed’s gritty firsthand account of this farce):
Sorry about the noise outside. Obviously disgruntled Knicks fans.
Tool.
Shouts from the Stoop, I'm Glad It Happened. But Never Again
Schizophrenic blogger Alex Baldman takes both sides of the Atlantic Yards debate.
I don't understand. If you say its unconstitutional, how can you support the use of eminent domain in downtown Brooklyn?
I support it because I am a hypocrite. My desire to see Brooklyn have a professional basketball team outweighs the undeniable fact that in order to achieve that goal, the constitutional rights of many fellow Brooklynites were trampled upon. I know I am wrong to support it, but I still do.
Here is what I would love to see happen: Once the arena is build, and Lebron scores the first basket for the hometown team, I want the Supreme Court to overturn New London. I want public use to mean public use. Not private use. What happened in Atlantic Yards should never happen again. To anybody.
But I'm glad in happened in the first place.
But never again.
Joseph's Blog, Ground broken for Atlantic Yards project
Thoughts on the groundbreaking from a blog that bills itself as "Liberal Views and Pro Wrestling Coverage."
I think it is terrible that development has won in this case. For the sake [of] the supporters, the project better bring about economic benefits for the area. Meanwhile, hopefully opponents of this project can still fight it.
Bleacher Report, Grounded Houston Rockets Can Celebrate Not Being New Jersey Nets
The jokes are endless, and in many cases, accurate.
Vanilla Ice performed at halftime of a New Jersey Nets game. To make the Nets look good in comparison.
Posted by eric at March 14, 2010 9:56 PM