For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.