There were three particularly interesting items in today’s NY Post, two domestic, one international. I’ll start with the most infuriating:
In a recent address, Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchione asked consumers to not buy his company’s 500e electric car. He said: “…every time I sell one it costs me $14000.” The firm must offer the models to satisfy zero-emissions rules in certain states. It plans to sell the minimum number required, not one more. Marchione warns that auto manufacturers who must endure losses to satisfy politicians are likely to ask for a bailout if bankruptcy occurs.
The State University of NY owned Long Island College Hospital, located in Brooklyn, which hemorrhaged money for years. Studies determined that it wasn’t needed, that its demise would not diminish services in the borough, as there are plenty of venues to pick up the slack. It tried to sell the place and was blocked by activists. On the campaign trail, Mayor DeBlasio managed to get himself arrested in protest. The fight went on for a year at a cost to taxpayers of 130 million. Now, basically the same exact deal that had been proposed has taken place. Cynics would say it was the mayor’s way of paying back the lawyers who backed his candidacy.
Everybody’s favorite oppressor, Kim Jong-un, recently sailed on North Korea’s top submarine. The prototype was deemed obsolete by the Soviets in 1961.
Maybe fiction really is dead. No writer could make up stuff like this.
Last night This-TV ran Frankie and Johnny (1966), starring Elvis and Donna Douglas (Ellie May on The Beverly Hillbillies). I switched to it each time 24 went to commercial. The late Harry Morgan played the sidekick, as he did so genuinely in film and TV throughout his amazing career. He has 162 titles listed at IMDb, but that doesn’t tell the full story. He did 155 episodes of December Bride, 72 of Pete and Gladys, 99 of Dragnet, 180 of MASH, and 29 of After Mash. Wow.
As they have so often, my Russian customers put the floating book shop back on the right track after four days of derailment. All the sales and donations today were in Russian. Spasibo. And my thanks to the Lady Eve, who revealed it was she who recently purchased Exchanges on Kindle. I also surprised Sue-Ellen, a young history teacher at Kingsborough CC. I signaled her to pull her Smart car over and, when she rolled down the window, I broke into a bar Happy Birthday. She'd told me last Friday. I was tempted to lean in and give her a kiss, but I was afraid I'd never stop.
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