Will takes on the New York Beat and goes really not Metal Monday

Ooookaaay. This week we'll wrap up the rough draft of the Franco-Italian-Israeli air strikes on Soviet nuclear forces in the Ukraine. We've got plenty of Italian Tornados and Star Fighters flying about. The Tornado's target is Pervomaysk. Have fun!

We should also wrap up The Great Nuclear War of 1975's Looking Glass officers discussing the course of the war. We also use these scenes to show a slice of life up in Gillette, Wyoming, which is home to what's euphemistically referred to as the Western DoD. There are huge coalmines around Gillette, and the Looking Glass scenes gives us the chance to talk about the Feds shipping coal to Colorado and the Pacific Northwest. We think that's interesting.

Zerohedge tells us that New York Governor Kathy Hochul wants to renovate Penn Station. Good. The current Penn Station is a 1960s era big government dump that has all the charm of an overcrowded elementary school and smells like a combination of cardboard boxes  and rotten tomatoes. Hochul's plan will cost $5-7 billion and take 5 years. Even if one doubles both numbers, good. 

Look, guys, Curtis Sliwa was never going to be elected mayor of New York City. That's just not how things work there. You have any idea what it took to elect Rudy in 1993?

Everyone thinks of 1970's dystopian New York as the cities' low point. And maybe it was. But by 1990 the crack-wars had driven NYC's murder rate to the highest ever recorded. The city was riven by race riots and anti-Jewish pogroms and Black Mayor David Dinkins seemed okay with it. 1993 wasn't NYC in Deathwish, but the porn shops still dominated Times Square and the Yankees sucked. You want a feel for the time, go watch Ron Howard's The Paper,* where a racially motivated murder hangs over a city wanting to burst.

People had had enough, and NYC elected Rudy, who said he'd fight crime. The rest is history. Back in our 90's DC days, we'd have to explain to these young gun southern Republicans from Texas and Florida that stormed DC with the 104th Congress that yes, Rudy was pro-abortion, favored gay marriage, and endorsed Mario Cuomo, but he hated crime. And in NYC that made him a GOP. 

Eric Adams may be a Democrat, but he talks like mid-90s Rudy. 

Below, the gritty, un-fabulous, pre-Friends New York. Give me a beat!:

*Watch The Paper. Watch it! Cop Confirms: They didn't do it.