bus strikes, Geso, Josh, Death squads

The second private bus line strike in queens in under three years - you'd thing someody would learn something. Oh wait, what am i saying? (Speaking of which, the YDN eats crow, which is always fun to watch, even when you haven't been in new haven in like four months.



Meanwhile

To remedy New Haven crime increases, Mayor John DeStefano Jr.

said he will focus on addressing incidents of larceny and murder, both of which

increased in the city in 2004. The city statistics show murders nearly doubled,

from eight in 2003 to 15 in 2004.Most of these cases are unrelated and not

attributable to a single individual, New Haven Police spokeswoman Bonnie

Winchester said in an e-mail. "With the exception of the two homeless people who

were murdered in an abandoned building on Grand Avenue, I don't believe that any

of the murders are related," she said

Well, i guess if they're homeless, they must not matter at all. Off to the glue favtory with 'em, clearly.



Good column, Josh



Meanwhile, Newsweek reports that the DOD, rife with Rumsfelds, Negropontes, and Cheneys riding high on the Veep's declaration during the VP that paramilitary killing squads in El Salvador symbolized the "human cry for freedom," mulls bringing back the death squad as a means of pacifying Iraqis. Noone should be surprised. Everyone should be very, very angry.