****NEW YORK CITY GETS SUBWAY CARS FROM CANADA THAT DON'T OPERATE WELL. by why get excited about that? most are delivered late so it just takes longer for us to find out that they don't operate well. VISIT THIS LINK FOR MORE INFO

****JUST WHEN WE THINK THE NEW YORK TIMES IS THE SLEAZIEST BUNCH OF PEOPLE AROUND, THEY ACTUALLY PULL AN EVEN WORSE DEAL. would you believe that the newspaper is actually suing so it can get the recordings and the transcripts of the final words of people who were dying in the world trade center attack as they were dying? VISIT THIS LINK FOR MORE INFO

****HE WAS THE HEAD MAN AT THE UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WHICH EARNED THE REPUTATION OF BEING ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT ENTITIES THERE IS. so, let us reward him and make him the big cheese at aol time warner. kiss the value of your stock goodbye. VISIT THIS LINK FOR MORE INFO

****YENTA YACK FROM THE BACK OF THE HACK (what they are talking about in the back of the taxi)....passengers trying to decide which fast food places they are going to sue.

****TRASH TALK (what the media won't tell you).... maybe not all the media, but certainly the national broadcasting company is not going to tell its viewers who is the number one polluter in new york state.

****DO I PAY THEM OR DO THEY PAY ME? (most interesting cab fare of the week).... a yale man spouting off about evil princeton. it is wonderful when these adult preppies clash with each other about their snotty ivy league schools.

****FEED THE MOUTH (your biggest danger in coming to new york city is that you are going to get fat).... how about some chinese mitten crab? this dish makes the chinese snakehead fish look like a sweety pie.

****THE "HEY ABBOTT AWARD OF THE WEEK" (the biggest jerk around)... this congressman represents harlem which is just about the poorest economically depressed part of the city. he is having a birthday party and he is charging $25,000 a head to come. we guess there won't be too many harlem residents there.

.****THEY AREN'T JUST JOCKS (sports talk).... a girl won the 28.5 mile swim around manhattan in about eight hours. it will take her eight days to get clean. eeeek.

****HERE COMES THE JUDGE, HERE COMES THE JUDGE (the best free theater in the world, our courts)....he hypnotised the guy out of millions. look deep into my eyes and i shall try the same gambit.

****THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY (the truth, the truth, nothing but the whole truth).... it is bad enough that the supermarkets track you life by their "club cards," now the governement is asking to see those records of what you are buying in them aisles. and, you thought it was just so you could get a free turkey.

****CELEBRITY SIGHTING (who i saw that you know).... harry belafonte looking good. do you even remember who he is? at the apollo in harlem.

****JOKE DU JOUR (they are not supposed to be that good).... "do you know anything about gas stoves?"