SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

PETTY, PETTY, PETTY – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  Skaters arriving at Central Park’s two ice rinks are in for a cold awakening next week — the rinks, which are both managed by the Trump Organization, are being shuttered by City Hall to punish the former president for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Post has learned.  The Trump Organization says its last day of operating the iconic Wollman Rink and the smaller Lasker Rink at the park’s northern end will be Sunday.  The rink contracts had been set to expire in April, but Mayor de Blasio has moved to ice Trump out a month early, effective Feb. 26.  The Trump Organization is closing its doors after close of business on Sunday, so it will have time to pack up its belongings — including some 1,700 pairs of ice skates — and move out.  The city is terminating all four of its Trump Organization concession contracts.  “Trump has been impeached from operating the ice rink,” a de Blasio spokesman had said Jan. 31 in announcing the concession terminations for Wollman Rink, along with Lasker Rink, the Central Park Carousel and Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx.   Who cares about what's good for the children?  The party line must come first.  New York City is in rapid decline, and this kind of petty thinking is one of the causes.

February 19, 2021