SNIPPETS

TUESDAY,  AUGUST 4,  2009

BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The mayor of a New York town says he has put an end to low stakes gambling at a senior center in the village.  Baldwinsville Mayor Joe Saraceni said seniors will no longer be allowed to play card games for money at the village-owned Canton Woods Senior Center, despite the fact that gambling for low stakes does not break any laws, The (Syracuse, N.Y.) Post-Standard reported Monday.

What a great sense of priorities.

From the Christian Science Monitor:  It got pretty raucous in the White House briefing room today. Singing, eating, smooching. Pure bedlam.  Well, maybe not bedlam. But there was some singing — as in “Happy Birthday.” The eating? Of cupcakes. As for the smooching, President Obama planted a kiss on veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas’ cheek.  Thomas and Obama share the same birthday, but only a few years apart. Today is the president’s 48th while racks up her 89th.

Well, he knows who his allies are.

MONDAY,  AUGUST 3,  2009

From The New York Post:  "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. is not having a great year. It got worse Thursday night in Brooklyn, where the New York Times publisher was at a concert by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and Connie Francis. "About 10,000 people were there," said our source. "Marty Markowitz, the borough president, announced there was a celebrity in the crowd . . . Arthur Sulzberger Jr. . . . Dead silence from the crowd, except some scattered booing."

I'm surprised there were enough people who knew who Pinch Sulzberger is to have any booing at all.  Brooklyn is not Manhattan.  To The Times, it's a foreign country requiring visas.

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