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• Commented on Go Dutch: New Amsterdam Village Popping Up at Bowling Green
  Speaking as someone who lived in the Netherlands for the better part of a decade, speaks pretty good Dutch, loves Holland, loves Amsterdam, and is totally psyched about this event, allow me to explain why Danku is the only Dutch...
• Commented on Westboro Church Comes to West Village to Protest Gays, Jews
  While I too eagerly await the day when Fred Phelps goes to his long-overdue resting place in the 9th circle, it occurs to me that actually this is the best possible place for these loons. They're drawing only derision, are...
• Commented on Another Con Ed Rate Hike Approved
  As a non-ConEd employee who does a lot of work with ConEd, I just want to amplify the point that calling ConEd's service "substandard" is insane. There was the Long Island City incident in 2006, Washington Heights in 1999 and......
• Favorited NTSB Tries to Remove Flight 1549 From Frozen Hudson on Gothamist
• Commented on NTSB Tries to Remove Flight 1549 From Frozen Hudson
  First video of the end of the impact and the first 8 mins of the rescue has been found: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/01/this_video_apparently_comes_from.php...