2009-10-19

Politics on Stilts
Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:43pm
Politics on Stilts
The future mayor of Hoboken
Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:43pm
With all the political corruption busts in New Jersey recently, I’m thinking of running for mayor of Hoboken. With the campaign now heating up, the timing is right for me to jump into the race. Since I already have nine felony convictions, from shoplifting to counterfeiting to possession of...
Calling it, for Thompson
Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:42pm
Though I’m young, I’m a bit of an old hat at phone banking—so much so that I ran phone banks for the Obama campaign in New York City that generated three million calls. Earlier this year, I ran several more phone banks for Congressman Scott Murphy in his victory upstate to replace now-Senator...
Lord, what fools these candidates be
Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:42pm
When even the Naked Cowboy has thrown his 10-gallon hat in the ring, the time has come to question the legitimacy of the New York City mayoral elections. The race to the top of the city’s executive branch has become so populated with colorful characters that it seems more an exercise in...
Election Season
Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:41pm
It’s that time of year again. Election Day is coming up, and while the University-wide holiday will be a welcome break for Columbia students, it will also be an opportunity for many of us to exercise our civic duty. This Monday, Spectator Opinion takes a look at two mayoral races happening in our...
The real-life Borg mothership
Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:41pm
The NWSB is a return to the modernist fetishization of structure, although like Lerner, it stretches its intellectual assumptions to drearily excessive lengths. The result is architecture that doesn’t reflect the building’s structure or purpose so much as tell the outside world to keep moving and...

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