Hugh Carey croaked yesterday and the tender age of 92 (92 no longer seems like it’s long enough to live, though it’s probably a lot better than I’ll manage). For you non-NYers, he was Governor back from 1975-1982. That’s back when NYC was about to go bankrupt (I think the Dutch were ready to foreclose), and Gerald Ford was “quoted” in a NY Daily News headline: “Ford To City: Drop Dead†(15 cents for a paper back then – imagine that). Stocks tumbled, bonds were downgraded, dogs and cats started living together, the State was looking to not only cancel the NY State Fair, but sell off the fairgrounds. Oh, it was terrible. Fortunately, we’ve learned a lot from this, and that sort of thing could never happen today. 🙄 Carey’s election ended the rather short tenure of Malcolm Wilson, who inherited the office from Nelson Rockefeller (a shame they don’t make Republicans like Rocky anymore – though for some reason he had his panties in a bunch when it came to smoking pot and stuff, and then there was that whole Attica thing that got a little bit messy) who, ironically was Ford’s VP. I never really liked Hugh, though I can’t quite remember why (maybe it was because he always looked like he used a whole tub of black shoe polish on his head and eyebrows), and he was kind enough to pony up $15 million in State funding so SU could build their new football stadium, so I reckon we owe him some gratitude. So, RIP, Hugh. I hope they give you a traditional Irish sendoff, including putting both your casket and a keg of beer on a block of ice at the wake.
Hugh Carey had a summer home on Shelter Island to which he commuted by helicopter and where he caused a tremendous fuss by trying to build something (I think a fence) that blocked his neighbor’s view of the water. There was a big fight and Carey lost.
His kids had a reputation for drunken annoyingness and one of them was killed in a car accident while driving drunk. Carey died at his summer home.
He was very wealthy and lived in the snootiest part of the island. He had a reputation for arrogance not unlike his reputation as governor. But, Wacky Pataki made us all pine for Carey.
Nearly a year after two alpha males on Capitol Hill slew a bill to allow a National Women’s History Museum here, the head of the nascent project has quietly taken steps to placate conservative critics.
A former executive director of the Eagle Forum, which led the fight to defeat an Equal Rights Amendment for women, is among several conservative women who have been added to the museum’s board.
An online biography of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, part of a virtual museum to build awareness of the project, has been “revisited” to remove “subjective” details.
And on Mother’s Day, the museum added a virtual exhibit on motherhood alongside sections on women workers, soldiers, spies and suffragists.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/national-womens-history-museum_n_919916.html
http://tinyurl.com/3d73nfl
Jon Stewart described Boehner as the most misguided tangerine.