Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 12/20 - Bang

There were a lot of juicy items in today's NY Post. As everyone knows by now, the Mayans have predicted the world will end tomorrow. Well, Niki Ghazian, a model based in the Big Apple, featured on the front page, is hoping to have a lot of sex just in case the prediction proves correct. In fact, she has advertised for it, saying: "I don't want to die on a dry spell." In another of its memorable headlines, the tabloid blares: "Out With A Bang." The first line of the accompanying article by Amber Southerland and Natalie O'Neill is just as clever: "Stop the world - I wanna get off." If this was a marketing ploy, well done. Here's a picture of the lovely lass in question:

Another woman, Michelle Celarier, devoted an article to an oddity that is stunning. Nationwide, teachers' pension funds have approximately 100 million invested in four gun companies. Should they follow liberal orthodoxy and divest, or should they stay with firms that have provided good returns? I love the complexities of life.

Our next President, Hillary Clinton, is already in campaign mode. She skipped testimony at the congressional hearings on the Benghazi debacle, citing a concussion suffered in a fall. Of course, whenever the Clintons are involved, there is always suspicion of chicanery. If the election were held today, I believe she'd win in a landslide. The only way she'll lose is if the economy gets even worse and moderates move right. Many credit her husband for the prosperity of the 90's. Republicans attribute it to their domination of Congress. I say the internet boom, a private sector phenomenon, took away all the sins of politicians.

RIP Robert Bork, 85, the most qualified candidate never to have been appointed to the Supreme Court, derailed by the slander of intellectual midgets Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy and the like. The process gave rise to the term "borking," personal political attacks. Sometimes there's no justice.

It was a day of surprises for the floating book shop. A customer I expected to show didn't, the weather report was completely wrong about gusty winds, and I sold one of my own books, breaking a three-week dry spell. My thanks to Marty, who purchased Adjustments, and to the other kind folks who bought, donated and swapped.
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