oh yeah, like new york is SO much better.

The talking heads on this infernal island are pointing their fingers again - but this time it hits a little close to home, the Garden State.


Yes, just as Mr. Bloomberg used his authority to deem the unseemly odour entirely safe, despite its unknown provenance, they have decided to assume innocence and indict their neighbor to the South (which, incidentally, keeps the lifeblood of energy flowing into a city that leaves the lights on in its office buildings all night).


It was a topic of intense family discussion:

• Tony (from Brooklyn): So, it appears NJ is performing terrorist acts against NYC too. Maybe NY should finally attack and take over Northern NJ.
  
  
• Greg: Oh, blame NJ now, but when the city smelled like nice maple syrup earlier in the year, did they give us credit? Noooooo.....
  I say that NJ pulls a Russia and shuts off the gas pipelines. We'll see how NY likes that!
  
  
• Tony: Even more reason to attack and take over.
  
  
• Ed: In lieu of the olefactory charges against our beloved NJ, I offer this interesting fact about the Pinelands, mainly because I like saying "contiguous deciduous forest":
  
  The New Jersey Pinelands is the largest area of contiguous, undeveloped forest and wetland on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the Mid-Atlantic region. The New Jersey Pinelands is the largest pine barrens complex in the world, and the mosaic of globally rare upland and wetland communities and species found here is of national significance. The Pinelands supports a number of endemic plant and animal species, several glacial relict species, and a few northern and numerous southern species that reach their geographical Coastal Plain limits in the Pinelands. Also, 24 plant taxa (type localities) were described from specimens originally discovered growing in the New Jersey Pinelands. The Pinelands overlay one of the largest aquifers in the country, and the wetlands and pristine headwaters arising within the Pinelands support a unique assemblage of indigenous species and are critical for the water quality and productivity of the New Jersey backbarrier lagoon estuaries.
  
  
• Greg: I believe that it is also the largest nature preserve in the US, and NJ has set aside a larger % of itself off limits to development than any other state.
  
  
• Me: and we have a hideous, malformed, impish creature that preys on cattle and babies and overly curious rednecks, pokes out their eyes and eats their cerebellums, all the while screeching as it peels relentlessly through the putrid, humid air, cautiously purveying the fields of tree stumps and copper-colored streams in search of its next, unwitting victim. and no, it is not Christie Todd Whitman. she moved to Washington.
  

Anyway, we're talking about South Jersey. All the more reason for a nice, clean secession.

Go New Jersey. Go Eagles!

This post is a political tirade.