Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. George Eliot (1819-1880)

boondocks Definition: (noun) A remote and undeveloped area. Synonyms: backwoods, hinterland Usage: I have fond memories of my childhood home, but I would never trade city life to go back to the boondocks. Discuss.

William Henry Harrison (1773) As the first governor of the Indiana Territory, Harrison negotiated treaties with Native Americans that ceded millions of acres of land to the US. In response, Tecumseh organized an uprising, which Harrison engaged at the famous Battle of Tippecanoe. He went on to lead forces in the War of 1812, recapturing Detroit from the British. Originally a Virginia aristocrat, he won the 1840 US presidential election by emphasizing his tough frontiersman image, only to die of what after a month in office? More…

The worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

blackball Definition: (verb) Expel from a community or group. Synonyms: banish, cast out, ostracize, shun, ban Usage: They must not know about my sordid past, because if they did, they would immediately blackball me. Discuss.

The coalition to save Brust Park was formed to save a small open space that is threatened by a developer who is planning to build a large building right next to Brust Park, in what was an empty lot on […]

Anna of Russia (1693) When the young Peter II of Russia died without an heir, the Supreme Privy Council offered the throne to his distant cousin, Anna, under the condition that she would place the real power in the council’s hands. She initially agreed, but then tore up the conditions, abolished the council, and restored the autocracy. She occupied herself with extravagant amusements and relied on her lover and foreign advisors to manage the state. What happened to the infant grandnephew she named as her successor? More…

Congratulation, n.: The civility of envy. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

paladin Definition: (noun) Someone who fights for a cause. Synonyms: champion, fighter, hero Usage: Like the ancient paladins, he has only undertaken this war to obtain a look from his lady love. Discuss.

Bronx, NY- The NYC City Council will be holding hearings this month on a package of bills aimed at reforming the NYPD.  Intro 2118, sponsored by Keith Powers, is scheduled to be heard in the Committee on Government Operations, chaired […]

WHAT:          Council Member Fernando Cabrera, Morris Heights Health Center Medical staff will bring more than 100 doses to homebound seniors at The New Jewish Home Kittay House Senior Apartments.  Medical staff will go to seniors’ apartments to administer the vaccines.   WHEN:          Friday, […]

I watch, I listen, and I stay quiet. Then I watch more, I then listen more carefully and then I speak. As a watch and I listen it dawns on me we have two very different countries. We do, and […]