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Dan Choi On Bin Laden’s Death
Starts at 7:40.(Tipped by JMG reader Sean Chapin)
Read More »Bin Laden Buried At Sea
The Associated Press reports: A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea. After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official said. Finding …
Read More »Virgin Leathermen?
Hugging Towers
One week after 9/11, I rescued the above unsigned painting from the front wall of the elementary school on my Chelsea street. It was one of hundreds affixed there in what doubtlessly was a group therapy project for the children. A violent rainstorm had just begun when I removed it and by morning the hundreds of other drawings lay ruined …
Read More »Photos Of The Day – New York Firefighters Arrive In Times Square To Wild Cheers
NYFD ladder trucks arrived in Times Square around 12:30am to the wild cheers of the ever-growing crowds. I tried to get down there myself to witness some history, but at this writing there’s about 200 people frantically waving for cabs along my block on the Upper East Side. NOTE: The above photos have been retweeted so many thousands of times …
Read More »Obama Tells World: Bin Laden Is Dead
BREAKING: Osama Bin Laden Is DEAD
San Francisco’s Eagle Tavern Closes
My pal Ned just texted me the above photo of the front door of San Francisco’s Eagle Tavern. According to JMG reader Craig, insiders suspect there’s much more to the story than a lost lease.
Read More »Quote Of The Day – Crazy Eyes
“We are seeing eclipsed in front of our eyes a similar death and a similar taking away. It is this disenfranchisement that I think we have to answer to. The question comes down to this: what will you say to that next generation about what you did to make sure that wouldn’t be their fate?” – Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” …
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