"We need more harlequins, fewer ticktockmen."

Said Icepick in last night's thread about Boston banning drinking games in bars. He began: I recently read "The Scouring of the Sh...

"See? You can be messy on the inside, and no one knows."

Step inside a 400-square-foot apartment space , transformed by elaborate built-ins: The quote I've used for the post title appears about...

Mayor Bloomberg: "Well, I don’t know that-- you keep saying control. I think that’s a-- a bad word. What about regulations?"

Funny the way the word "control" troubles the proponents of gun control! That was on "Meet the Press" this morning , whe...

"When you talk about 8.4 million people in New York City living three years longer than they did 10 years ago..."

"... it is just one of the great improvements in life expectancy ever found on the face of the Earth," says Mayor Bloomberg , who ...

"For some reason, the uplifting value of the New York City Marathon, however, is so off the charts in Bloomberg World..."

"... that nothing trumps diverting countless police and sanitation resources to marathon duty, even when parts of the metropolitan area...

NY Mayor Bloomberg endorses Massachusetts Senator Brown — over his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren.

Questions: 1. Wait. I forget... Is Bloomberg a Democrat or a Republican? He's an "independent" now. He was a lifelong Democr...

Mayor Bloomberg, stimulating the development of micro-units.

For single folk, in New York City. Here's a useful graphic:   I love the picture of the diminutive mayor, standing in a life-size floor ...

Michael Bloomberg gives a speech and then mutters "Who Wrote This Shit?"

It's fine with me, but why is he presiding over a hot-dog-eating contest? Of all politicians, he's the one I most associate with co...

"New York City is not about wringing your hands; it’s about doing something."

"I think that’s what the public wants the mayor to do." Elsewhere, "all over the United States," they "are wringing...

Bloomberg's ridiculous photographic bias.

Reporting on yesterday's Wisconsin recall primary, Bloomberg runs this photograph of Tom Barrett... ... which comes straight from Barr...

"You want to get arrested? We'll accommodate you."

Mayor Bloomberg waxing sarcastic about the scourge of Occupy.

"New York City is the city where you can come and express yourself. What was happening in Zuccotti Park was not that."

Said Mayor Bloomberg, defending his decision to oust the Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti park. Mr. Bloomberg said the city had ...

Krugman's swipe at Bloomberg's rhetoric about Occupy Wall Street.

Paul Krugman has a column about how various "plutocrats" are "panicking" about the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I w...

"So, is Bloomberg’s story titled 'The Secret Sins of General Electric'?"

"Or, in the online version, 'General Electric Flouts Law With Secret Iran Sales?' Of course not. G.E. is generally identified w...

"We’re not France... Mr. Bloomberg is pretending we’re a secular society, and we are not."

Complaints about Mayor Bloomberg's exclusion of clergy from NYC's 9/11 ceremony. It's the old controversy of causing controversy...

"Power could be shut off in Lower Manhattan, hitting Wall Street, a precaution against storm surges as Hurricane Irene strikes..."

Reports the Wall Street Journal. "The most important thing is to make sure their facilities aren't damaged, which would take a long...

"President Barack Obama is likely to propose a new public works program in a post-Labor Day speech."

Say the Bloomberg editors. ... It makes economic sense. The president should think big -- upward of $100 billion a year for at least two yea...

Feds reject Bloomberg's anti-obesity experiment.

Not because it's too much nannyism. It's just too much trouble. Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s pr...

Bloomberg's Million Trees campaign included 200 ginkgos that bear fruit that stinks like vomit.

The NY Post reports: "They are only supposed to put in the male tree -- it doesn't produce the berries -- but they've been putt...

Gay marriage in New York State is "a BFD because a Republican-led State Senate passed this law."

Writes Andrew Sullivan: Going outside traditional Democratic party lobbies to appeal to those on the other side who are open to our argument...