Comments (14)

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   mojo says April 11, 2012 at 9:35 am

   Nah, Newark is only the physical anus of the US.

   Globally, I think the post is held by Adelaide, SA.
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   dicentra says April 11, 2012 at 10:39 am

   The U.N. is the Mos Eisley of a universe in which Han never shoots first.
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   palaeomerus says April 11, 2012 at 10:58 am

   Yeah well, good speech and all but we’ve been hearing this since 9-11 and I think the people who care agree and the ones who don’t still jabber about those poor palestinians and looks sideways at AIPAC and start the cycle of ignorance over. This message has gotten out multiple times. The facts really do NOT support an anti-Israel position well. We need to start assuming that present and future Israel bashing is the product of willful intent rather than disinterested indolent ignorance.
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   RI Red says April 11, 2012 at 11:37 am

   If’n I was Israel, I’d be feelin’ a might tetchy right about now. Talk about livin’ in a bad neighborhood. Derby wouldn’t even venture outside. And those A-rabs and Persians ain’t dumb. Think they even invented cypherin’.
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   McGehee says April 11, 2012 at 12:51 pm

   And here I thought the “moral anus of the universe” was Newark.

   Whenever I look at the beef options on a menu I can’t help but think what a difference a G makes.
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   Squid says April 11, 2012 at 1:16 pm

   Not a fan of the Bi Mac, are you? Ho-moo-phobe!
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   Shtetl G says April 11, 2012 at 1:54 pm

   Back off Newark, bub. Most of the city is a shit hole but the Iron Bound section still has some awesome Portuguese restaurants, so there is at least one redeeming quality about Newark. I doubt you can say that about the UN.

   PS. Tony De Caneca is an awesome Portuguese restaurant if you are ever in Newark.
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   Silver Whistle says April 11, 2012 at 2:17 pm

   I hear the Passaic River used to spontaneously combust every so often.
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   leigh says April 11, 2012 at 2:27 pm

   I believe that was the Ohio River, SW.
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    Silver Whistle says April 11, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    No Leigh, a college roommate from Newark, Buster Hyman, told me about it. Made it sound kind of romantic, the flames as a backdrop to the night time city.
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    sdferr says April 11, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Differn’t river, leigh.
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    Swen says April 11, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    You knew Buster and Hazel Hyman? Small world it is!
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    bour3 says April 12, 2012 at 1:33 am

    I bet Condell is a real hoot at parties.
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    Abe Froman says April 12, 2012 at 5:12 am

    I vaguely remember the Cuyahoga River catching fire in Cleveland, but never heard about the Passaic River doing so before. Then again, if SW had a Jewish roommate from Newark in college, he has to have at least a few decades on me. I think the 1960′s riots pretty much chased every last Phillip Roth out of Newark. The Italians stuck around a bit longer, but no one’s ever accused inner city Italians of being smart … or unarmed, for that matter.