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A very nice tribute in todays New York Times about the designer of the iconic New York to go coffee cup.

Click here to read his obituary.

Skip to about 1:25 in to see the MOMA Design Store hawk the Leslie Buck cup.

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On the heals of the harmful testimony by Goldman’s chair Lloyd C. Blankfein. The GOP relented to mounting pressure and allowed the financial reform bill to move to the floor for debate. Shelby and other Republicans still have serious concerns about the sweeping reform and hope to make changes

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That’s what Goldman Sachs was selling, that’s what their unsuspecting clients were buying, that’s what made Goldman a ton of money, and that’s what made the main stream media scramble for the bleep button.

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Today Senator Carl Levin, head of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, will present evidence that Goldman sold mortgage derivatives to it’s clients and then profited by betting heavily that those investments would fail.

So much for Goldman’s motto “Our client’s interests always come first.”

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NJ Transit, do the right thing!

Click HERE to read about one man’s fight to the death.

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“Unless your business model depends on bilking people, there is little to fear from these new regulations.”

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New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie was in South Plainfield yesterday praising start up solar company Petra Solar that grew from ten to one hundred employees in the last year.

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Pacino takes on Jack Kevorkian this Sunday night on HBO. At least one reviewer wanted to be put out of his misery.

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Yesterday the Supreme Court overturned a federal law that made it a crime to create or sell dogfighting videos and other depictions of animal cruelty. Samuel Alito the lone voice defending said law argued that “videos depicting dogfights are essential to the success of the criminal dogfighting subculture.” But John Roberts writing for the majority in the by 8 to 1 majority said “The First Amendment means the governments has no power to restrict expression because … Continue Reading

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The chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs said he’s just a banker “doing God’s work”

Tonight on MSNBC at 9:00 pm the anti government extremist, Timothy McVeigh coldly tells how he killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

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Evan Williams invented the word blogger. He’s the creator of Blogger which was acquired by Google and the upstart micro-posting space Twitter. Now Twitter is growing at the rate of 300,000 new users a day. As of today that number includes me. You can follow me at illarryo.

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Attorney, civil rights leader, Baptist minister who led lunch counter sit in demonstrations in the 60s, Executive Director of the NAACP and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, died yesterday at his home in Memphis. He was 85.

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Ben is smiling like someone that can pay his bills, but It’s becoming clear that people overextended themselves beyond governments ability to help. Foreclosures doubled last month even on the cheaper terms of the government modification program.

Speaking of bills, Happy April 15th Everyone!

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Are republicans content to let Health Care and Financial Reform take place without offering to help, just to position themselves for a house takeover? Of coarse they are. There’s what’s right and wrong and then there’s what works. The stategery will work and they’re stickin to it.

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First published in 1940 “Spécialités de la Maison” Harper Collins 19.99 contains recipes from celebrities of the day. The book was out of print until Christine Schwartz Hartley, stubbled upon a copy in a used-book store and gave new life to the vintage cookbook. It sounds like fun to be able to serve Salvador Dalí’s Neptune Nonsense, Helen Keller’s Lobster Newburg or one of the other 200 recipes contributed by famous people like Eleanor Roosevelt, Laurence Olivier and Katharine Hepburn.

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Anna Walentynowicz was one of the 96 people on the plane that crashed in Russia killing the President of Poland and all on board. In 1980 Anna was a crane operator at the Gdansk shipyard in Communist Poland. Her role as a union activist led to her firing which set off a chain of events that led to the creation of Solidarity and the unraveling of Communism in Poland. She was 80 years old.

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Occasionally nice guys finish first.

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Poland morns the loss of it’s president Lech Kaczynski who was killed when a plane traveling from Warsaw to Russia crashed while approaching Smolensk Air Base.

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You knew it would happen. Too many have too much to loose for it not to.

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They say that getting into Augsta National is the toughest ticket in sports. That’s why I’m as green as the famous jackets that my brother Dan is headed back for a second time.

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Have fun Dan!

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The CEO and Massey Energy Corporation has been accused of putting profits ahead of safety at the West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Coal Mine. An explosion there left 25 miners dead and four others unaccounted for.

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Has it been eighteen months already? Sharpe James, arrived back in Newark to a hero’s welcome yesterday aboard Greyhound Bus # 1026.

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When he was in high school, John Lithgow spent a lot of time at the McCarter Theatre, on the campus of Princeton University. Not that he was interested in acting, he was just visiting his dad at work. Arthur Lithgow was the executive director of the McCarter from 1963 to 1971. Back then, the young Lithgow wanted to be a painter. He got stagestruck later after joining the drama club while earning a degree at Harvard. Tomorrow night Lithgow returns to the McCarter to perform his one-person show, “Stories by Heart.”

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Okay, so the Yanks wasted an early lead, allowing Boston to steal the opener. There’s 161 more games, 17 against the rival Red Sox, and I’m stoked that spring is finally here.

A while ago I took a week to post about the serendipitous events that led to my painting wine labels. At that writing, only one label had made it to the shelf but I promised to keep you posted. This week I was shopping for a wine to go with Easter dinner when I happened upon a whole section of wine with my painting on it. Excuse the poor quality snapshots, I had to stop in the isle and take a picture with my phone.

I’m honored that Livingston Cellars is using my painting as it’s corporate identity and has placed it on every variety. The California wine is wildly distributed and is available in a wine or liqueur store near you. Cheers!

Happy Easter.

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Rest in peace.

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Legend goes that the former teamster boss Jimmy Hoffman, never missed a game at Giants Stadium, being he’s buried under Section 107. Now that the New Giants Stadium is built and the old one is being demolished, will we ever find out if the New Jersey folklore was true? The FBI says no, not if it means them panning through the rubble.

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The former President of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and current self proclaimed Emir of the Islamist Russian North Caucasus, confirmed that he is the terrorist responsible for ordering the “Black Widow” suicide bombers in the Moscow Metro that killed 39 people.