Stay Classy, Wodka!

“Struck some as anti-Semitic” is a bit of an understatement:

A Manhattan-based liquor manufacturer kicked off the holidays on a sour note with a billboard along the West Side Highway that struck some as anti-Semitic and got the attention of Anti-Defamation League.

The Wódka brand vodka ad featured two dogs, a Chihuahua dressed in a Santa Claus hat and an Afghan hound in a yarmulke, with a message that read: “Christmas Quality. Hanukkah Pricing. Great Vodka. Priced Right.”

The company, based in the Flatiron District, yanked its billboard overlooking the busy road by 4 p.m., less than 24 hours after erecting it.

If You Had Only Asked, I Would Have Told You

Remember when people — some of whom you believed to be very intelligent, perhaps — liked to ask-say during the 2009 election something along the lines of “Well, who else could possibly do the job of mayor?” as if to imply that he was the only one capable of doing it? That sense of municipal entitlement was just a tease:

“I always assumed that it would come out, but it’s not my responsibility to spread a story,” Bloomberg said, before carrying on with his holiday weekend at the Hampton Classic horse show in Bridgehampton.

Although As Crimes Go, Domestic Violence Is Bad Enough, The Coverup Is Clearly Worse

Isn’t a domestic violence charge against an aide the thing that finally did in Governor Paterson? I can’t remember — and besides, the political establishment was ready to use any pretext to prevent Paterson from running. Bloomberg’s case may be worse, seeing that they were intent on covering it up not to investigators but rather the entire city; one is witness tampering while the other moves into the realm of a wholesale fraud against history. You see a highly disturbing example of Bloombergian hubris in the way he did nothing to dissuade everyone from believing it was all about the snowstorm and the mayor’s own superior managerial instincts rather than just a tacky deal to allow Goldsmith to resign on his own terms.

How do you know they’re being squirrely? The Thursday afternoon before Labor Day weekend isn’t a bad time to let bad news squeak out:

Furious city officials yesterday blasted Mayor Bloomberg for hiding former Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith’s ugly secret — that he resigned because he’d been busted for allegedly attacking his wife in their luxurious Washington home.

But instead of coming clean on why he had kept his mouth shut last month, Bloomberg ran for cover, spending the day ducking reporters who wanted to ask about The Post’s bombshell revelation that Goldsmith was done in by his temper, not by his poor performance during the Christmas blizzard.

Last night, Bloomberg abruptly canceled an event on the Circle Line with a German-American friendship group, where an organizer announced the mayor would be absent because of an “emergency.”

As behaviorists will tell you, if you allow a child to disrespect you, he will quickly start falling into some very bad patterns.

That’s Not To Say They Wouldn’t Have Given Up Their Seat On The Subway For Her, However

The kind of crime story that warms the heart and cheers the soul:

Two thugs mugged a pregnant woman in the lobby of a Midtown building and ran off with her wedding band and engagement ring, police said yesterday.

MoMA’s New $25 Admission To Help Unravel Country’s Social Fabric

Because clearly the only way to mitigate a steep admission hike is to get divorced:

“What about a family with two children?” said [a 60-year-old] interior designer from Manhattan. “That’s already $100.”

Location Scout: MoMA.