As most of us already know tea can improve your skin and help keep you fit and trim. Did you know though that tea also has great effects on your health? Tea lowers cholesterol Media-favorite green tea was found to help lower cholesterol. Various sources suggest having five cups per day will provide results, but…
by Michelle Matthews I love access to birth control almost as much as I love using it (read: doin it). So when my access to contraception is impeded or threatened, I get as angry as the best of us. I applaud all attempts to end the attack on a woman’s right to make decisions about…
Governor Cuomo sees worsening budget deficit projection, still cutting state taxes for wealthy tho. Liberal elected officials representing lower Manhattan: For OWS, against drum circles, public urination. Mayor Bloomberg repeats conservative talking points on Fannie, Freddie. Probably reads WSJ op-eds, not Krugman’s. Erie County Exec Chris Collins making shit up out of…
Medical weed is trending. Who knows what kind of mayhem will ensue when all those glaucoma patients aren’t in so much pain!!! (Source: See Change Strategy, Melinda Yingling) Allegations of a CONSPIRACY to split the Jewish vote in the race for New York’s 6th Congressional District! State Sen. George Maziarz (R-Newfane) won’t withdraw his “stand…
A police sketch of former Senator Carl Kruger’s office. New York state residents: Somebody stole your furniture. Relations are so bad between the Governor and Senate Democrats that a bunch of them no-showed his lunch party. OccupyWallStreet had an uneventful walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. New York City’s undercounting appeal has been rejected by the…
This is the douchiest shirt we’ve ever seen on too many levels. (Source: NYC & Company) The latest voting count for a Brooklyn State Senate seat puts candidate Lew Fidler ahead by 3 votes in the this-is-why-your-vote-matters election of the month. Bad news on the health care front for those of us…
Ms. Clarkson is so tuff. When I say I’m super into pop, I don’t just mean the kind that you can only find on obscure CD-R labels run out of a remote corner of Sweden or even stuff on Matador. No sir, I love pop in all of its forms, both respectable and shameful. That…
This won’t be in your kids’ lunches anymore….starting September. It’s your last chance to try the meat-derived product everyone is talking about! Still no resolution in race to replace State Sen. Carl Kruger for an eight month term. As Governor Cuomo attempts to get more budgetary power, state legislators grow some backbones and decide…
The Orwells At first we were going to pretend like we thought this was former Governor Mario Cuomo, and maybe some band from the 60s that he was is, but that’d be really dumb. The Orwells are a new garage rock band fronted by a very different Mario Cuomo, who is a teenager from…
Indian Point Nuclear Plant is messing with this slightly augmented version of reality!! Greg Smith is the coolest guy [not] at Goldman Sachs. Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant also manages to mess with stuff under the sea. A handy village election voting guide for our readers in Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam Counties. Rep. Bob Turner…