Where to find the sharpest political commentary in the NYT
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Submitted by MsExPat on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 6:47pm
Why, in the garden section, of course!
A reporter's morning walk through the lovely Manhattan flower market on West 28th street finishes up with a suggestion for a visit to a very special local bookstore:
You’ve saved on flowers and plants, but you’ve still spent money. Time to assuage that capitalist guilt. Check out Revolution Books, 146 West 26th Street, (212) 691-3345, for your pick of Communist fare and other left-wing literature. Politically pointed gifts are for sale, too, like the empty $1 Obamalade bottles, which warn they might cause “massive loss of life in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Pakistan.” A clerk said, “A lot of people got taken with Obama, but it’s just the same Bush program rebranded.”
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Like in the sports section...
... where, until they reversed themselves, the Bethpage Black course where the US Open was held wasn't going to give rain checks to people who paid $150 for a ticket (!!). The comment from NJ: "Like most people and corporations, they are doing this because they can." Of course, there's the "most people" part, so I don't want to make this out to be a progressive harbinger....