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• Commented on Bloomberg Fights Living Wage at Kingsbridge Armory Mall
  At $10/hour, wouldn't their income price them out of all the public programs that supplement and subsidize their present minimum-wage lifestyle? Section 8, food stamps, Medicaid, EIC, etc? This is the Bronx, after all. That would be quite the pyrrhic...
• Commented on Person Fatally Struck By G Train At 7th Avenue Subway Station
  I had another beautiful bike ride to work -- did something happen on the subway?...
• Commented on Obama Calls Thompson A Friend In Shout-Out
  It's not Obama's fault that Thompson's a hopeless hack....
• Commented on Is the Fast Food Calorie Info Law Making Some Consume <em>More?</em>
  Between this article and the one about prepaid credit cards, there's at least one Times editor with a sense of biting satire about the poor....
• Commented on Queens Blvd Ghost Bike A Sobering Reminder Of Cycling Dangers
  Nice try, Ides. "It's an injustice that there's no forgiveness on our streets" -- that sentence borders on satire. Did this guy just leave the warmth of his mother's womb? OF COURSE no one gives a shit. You've got to...