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"The security staff at a Hamptons beach club tried to thwart drug arrests by pointing out undercover officers to patrons and alerting everyone to the officers' presence over the public announcement system, Southampton Town police said Monday night."

Isn't that like the police announcing that they're doing a drunk driving or cell phoning while driving sweep in advance? What's the difference?

Corgis can be snappy and yappie, but those two are sooooo cute.

Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Bridge.

And name a pool for The Swimmer.

Haberman is such a tool. When Carlos Slim's note comes due, Haberman can be replaced by cheaper and illegal Mexico City "hournalists" using computer translation.

Is it just me, or does it seem like they have been finding an awful lot of grenades lately.

Seriously! I was just thinking the same thing. This has to be at least the sixth in a year. WTF?

Edward M. Kennedy Memorial Short Pier Drive?

What is wrong with people? Why would anything in New York be named after Ted?

7 yrs with that salary? Was he forced to work there?

Yeah you'd think he'd object after the first paycheck. Aint that legal as long as your getting tips.

"Aint that legal as long as your getting tips."

No. As the article says, there's a separate minimum wage for food service workers who also get tips. Currently it's $4.60 per hour for waiters and waitresses who earn at least $2.55 per hour. There are also a number of other minimum wage levels established for other service industry workers through what's known as a "Wage Order."

Again as the article says, he was getting tips, so he wasn't living on that low reported wage amount alone. But he's still now maintaining that whether he was able to get by on what he received or not, it should have been more.

The tips must have been good for him not to complain but when the economy tanked, out came the pay stubs.