Thoughts Out Of Season

New York City is up in arms over a pair of trespassing incidents on the Brooklyn Bridge over the past few weeks. Now the City and police department are going berserk trying to stop future similar incidents. The Mayor and police commissioner assault the airwaves with nonstop talk about the possibility of terrorists doing the same " with catastrophic consequences". But they have not given an example what the terrorists might get the chance to do if they did get access to the top of the bridge. Blow it up? How, carrying 5000 pounds of explosives on their backs? I don't think so. Use it as a platform to initiate sniper attacks on people? There's a trillion higher, much more easily accessible spots in the city. Throw buckets of urine down on passerby? Disgusting but not really dangerous? Flip the bird to passing police helicopters? Disrespectful but again not so dangerous as to be catastrophic. What exactly is the "catastrophic" threat here? What is the real t...

An article in the New York Times reports that housing prices have posted their greatest rebound since 2008. house prices in Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix , Arizona and other such cities hard hit during the housing down turn which began in 2008 posted some of the strongest gains. Even those whose houses are ' underwater" (meaning they owed more on their homes than what they were worth) are beginning to finally see some light at the end of the tunnel having seen their home prices begin to creep up. Surprisingly, home prices have actually fallen in New York City. Unknown, in my opinion is whether this phenomenon is due somehow to the destruction caused by last fall's Superstorm Sandy or a correction from the "sky's the limit" NYC prices over the past few years. It will be interesting to see how Republicans spin this story. Will they attempt to dispel the recent housing rise through some faith based babel of BS; claim credit for it or again point to shenanigans of...