- A massive fire fueled by a broken gas main has destroyed dozens of homes in San Bruno, California.
- Land developer Donald Trump has offered to buy the Park51 project site in Manhattan, but no takers so far.
- A new federal study shows that health care reform will add little to overall health care spending.
- China's third straight monthly trade surplus of $20 billion or more is prompting a fresh round of US criticism over China's currency policy.
- Astronomers are looking to our own sun in order to try to observe dark matter.
Trump went all blowhard about Park51 on David Letterman's show Wednesday night.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who lived through the 1980s in New York, I can say that the era was to blowhard-ism what the Elizabethan Age was to the writing of plays -- a Golden Age. Ed Koch, George Steinbrenner, Donald Trump ... there were giant assholes in those days.