The Daily News knows how to lighten up our week! (Source: Michael Sohn, AP)

Grisanti is racist in his gerrymandering efforts and possibly in his bar fights. (Allegedly! And racism is not the Senate GOP leadership’s likely motive here, nor would we suspect Grisanti has much say in its decisions. -Ed.)

In other political machine cesspool news, homophobic volunteers for GOP state senate candidate David Storobin’s campaign kinda negate his requests for a clean race against Councilman Lew Fidler.

In light of several cop shootings, Bloomberg continues his sharp criticism of our country’s lax gun control laws.

Yonkers’ own Greyston Bakery will be the first social enterprise to register as a Benefit Corporation in New York State.

There are mixed feelings over the deal reached on New York State teacher evaluations.

Resident uppity Upper West Side NYC Councilmember Gale Brewer will be running for Manhattan Borough President.

Resident NYT lame-wad David Brooks unsurprisingly manages to dig up something not cool about Jeremy Lin. We like the Daily News’ approach to reality more.

Representative Michael Grimm (photo: Staten Island Advance)

Staten Island U.S. Representative Michael Grimm is suffering from some bad press, as Politco reports today. Things are so dire for the first term Republican that his notoriously courageous predecessor Mike McMahon is reportedly sticking his head outside the window every three minutes to see which way the wind blows.

Grimm is known for his strong stances on controversial issues and for his wry wit.

In the event of a rematch between these two this fall, New York Journal‘s recommendation for NY-13 readers remains the same.

Pic related.

Cursed to never have incorruptible public officials.

Just a day after a glowing tribute in the New York Journal, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has won the wrath of decent people everywhere by allegedly caving in on the 50 state foreclosure settlement.

It seems like every time we think we have a decent public official with some sort of integrity, he goes and joins a high priced prostitution ring or enables an incredible breach of the social contract between the government and the governed:-(

New York Journal didn’t pass its real estate license exam, so we are forced to defer to more informed sources in our analysis of the settlement. Naked Capitalism didn’t like it.

Schneiderman tries to defend himself here. 

Image by Jorge Ivanovich for New York Journal.

What can New York Journal do to stop and avenge the Curse of the New York Journal? What can New York State do to stop and avenge the Curse of the New York State?

Coming soon to Earth, in like 50 million years (Credit: MSNBC).

Christine Quinn gives her first campaign speech err…annual State of the City Speech.

Listen to Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos give his take on redistricting.

Congressional primary election schedule is still a clusterfudge.

In which hotel workers will finally be properly compensated for cleaning up after your various bodily functions.

Scipio is the latest NY town to pursue a fracking ban.

In news that will embarrass us if Europeans find out: Artists given the “opportunity” to barter for their health care, and the whooping cough makes a triumphant return in some Putnam school districts.

Health insurance companies will now be required to provide explanations of health care plans that people who don’t work for health insurance companies can understand.

Amasia is the hottest combo-continent since Pangea!

Harvard educated, undrafted point guard Jeremy Lin is blowing people’s minds by overperforming in a Knicks jersey. The young man, who is the first Asian-American NBA basketball player ever, has averaged 25 points a game in his three starts and recorded 10 assists and a dunk last night in a blowout of the completely lousy Washington Wizards.

The Palo Alto born Lin had already been released from two teams this season before being picked up by the Knicks on December 27. He has been sleeping on the living room couch of his NYU student brother, though we would guess the Knicks have put him into nicer digs following Saturday night’s breakout success.

BTW, you know that the New York Times is all over this story and it’s getting forwarded around like nothing since that story about fake lobster at Zabar’s, right? I mean seriously, this is right up their alley. Anyway. 

Linsanity comes at an opportune time for the Knicks, given that stars Carmelo Anthony and Amar’e Stoudemire are both out at the moment and that the team sucks.

Anthony’s style of play has not gelled well with his coach or teammates, so it is only a little surprising that the team has done better and are happier without him. Stoudemire has expressed frustration with Anthony’s lack of team orientation, and tweeted his excitement about the Lin led squad’s success.

For those who care about this stuff, Lin is the first Harvard man in the NBA since 1954.

So anyway, now non-sports fans have something sports-related to talk about.

#1 Lawyer! (Source: AP)

According to a recent Siena College poll, 63% of New Yorkers don’t know who Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is. Get it together, New York! This guy is legit, and uh, kind of a dreamboat. He’s a progressive Democrat who was elected to the NY State Senate in 1998 for the most embarrassingly gerrymandered district, and served there until being elected to his current post in 2010.

In case you’re wondering, the Attorney General AKA “the People’s Lawyer” is the highest ranking law enforcer in New York State. The AG is the most kick-ass out of all executive branch positions, since he/she makes sure that no entity is screwing over the citizens, organizations, or physical land of New York.

Here are some things he’s been working on:

Filing a legal challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

Suing banks over mortgage fraud.

Giving Indian Point nuclear plant a really hard time.

Making sure that prison inmates are counted in their home districts.

Sticking it to those assholes at Michaels craft stores.

Anyone have anything to add?

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Maybe they should have got Dragonette involved as well?

Here’s what earned him the payday:

Also, regarding the Luvin’ vid: 1:45 WUT:-/

Also, enjoy this expert Kremlin watching.

Governor Cuomo says no to special interests (Credit: Shannon DeCelle, NY Post).

Will the Senate be Democratic anytime soon?

While New York City makes vague progress on sustainability initiatives, but the New York Giants will be playing at a greener Super Bowl in Indiana.

Governor Cuomo wears many hats, literally.

MTA crowd-sources their own app #freelabor

DiNapoli warns that New York’s economy is losing momentum, unlike this baby playing ping-pong.

Anonymous hackers not so anonymously hack Syracuse police website.

This is why political staffers exist.