More Choices: Robert Burck Has Ideas About Homeland Security

If Thompson and Avella can’t do the job, maybe the Naked Cowboy can:

The Naked Cowboy, in a statement announcing the official launch of his candidacy tomorrow, said his platform would include a stimulus plan for small businesses.

“No one knows how to do more with less than yours truly, and that’s the kind of thinking I plan on sharing with my fellow New Yorkers when you elect me,” he said, promising new ideas on tax breaks, tourism, gay marriage, transit and homeland security.

Political Lessons Of The Day

One, unless you’re comparing Nazis to actual Nazis, refrain from using Nazi comparisons, because that’s just, as they say in Gaelic, “meshuganah.”

And two, never, ever, ever allow anyone to be able to use a headline like “REP. CAROLYN MALONEY APOLOGIZES FOR USING ‘N WORD’,” even if you are just repeating what someone else told you.

You Mean Cooler Than Andre Agassi’s Canon Rebel-G Camera?

Hmm . . . actually I can think of a few cooler things, but to each his own:

The only thing cooler than a pool party on a summer night in New York City is a secret pool party.

And the only thing cooler than that, as a few enterprising developers recently discovered, is a secret pool party in a pool made out of a Dumpster on the banks of the Gowanus Canal in industrial Brooklyn.

. . .

“The water’s amazingly fresh, for swimming in a Dumpster,” said Alexis Bloom, a documentary filmmaker from TriBeCa, after doing a few laps. She compared it favorably to the pool at Soho House, an actual urban country club.

Mayor Bloomberg: Leadership By Any Means Necessary

So much leadership, it hurts:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the governor should dispatch state troopers to haul state lawmakers back into session. He wants them to approve the bill giving him authority over city schools.

I hope the City Council cooperates during what will surely be a smooth third term . . .

Strong Independent Leadership

Now with 50 percent less leadership! Mayoral Control apparently won’t be taken up in Albany before September:

It was another setback for the mayor’s legislative agenda in Albany, where he has been repeatedly thwarted by lawmakers who complain that he employs a my-way-or-the-highway approach.

The failed negotiations over the school control bill were a replay of similar battles the mayor has fought in Albany in the last few years — like his campaign to construct a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan and his plan to charge drivers a fee to enter the busiest parts of Manhattan.

“The mayor’s people are telling us they will not budge, they will not accept anything that isn’t their version of the bill,” said Senator Bill Perkins, a Harlem Democrat who is one of several senators from the city calling on the mayor to accept the changes. “We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship.”

He’s still campaigning about “getting the job done” or something, right?