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​The Plight of the Single Lady, the Political Edition: You decide to run for mayor. In doing so, you are attacked as "unfit for office" because you've "put [your] political ambition" ahead of getting married and having children, a/k/a you have "a suspect commitment to family values," while your opponent, a man, has two children and is therefore "a dedicated family man." Despite the imagery of a withered rose, this is not a joke. Tampa, Florida, mayoral candidate Rose Ferlita has been called "Unmarried, unsure, and unelectable," by a political action group that, Bust Magazine points out, is not a right-wing extremist group.

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Kids! We like 'em, sometimes. Especially when they're dealing with the very frustrating situation of having their backpack stolen with their Halloween candy -- and their PSP -- in it. If you stole this poor little man's backpack, you should know that karma has a way of making you its bitch. C'mon, it had Thor on it.

Could you please tell some people? [via TheDailyWhat]

​Everyone knows Jersey Shore is trashy, but is that trashiness quantifiable in any realistic way? Apparently so, as the guidos of Jersey Shore are being used -- in such an explicit dirty manner -- as pawns in luxury goods consumerism warfare. How?

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​Rangel Holds 80th Birthday Party cum Campaign Fundraiser in the Grand Ballroom at The Plaza hotel. A "Make checks payable to Rangel Victory Fund," hung outside the ballroom. For guests, the rule was no cash, no bash -- all attendees had to cough up at least $200. [Daily News]

The MTA initially fought anti-Islamic center bus ads, but succumbed to posting them when threatened with a law suit. [NY Times]

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Lazio needed health care in 2000 when he fell and busted his lip in front of everyone on the first day of his futile Senate campaign. See Jon Stewart's clip.

By Scott Greenberg

Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's "Stop Obamacare" campaign sounds suspiciously like one of his fearmongering strategies from his days in Congress.

The Voice dug up an internal Lazio strategy memo from his first House re-election campaign, in 1994, that says health-care reform "would be a great issue to use misinformation against targeted groups to frighten them."

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Yeah, kill all the lawyers, but good luck eviscerating McKee Nelson, the law firm that vetted the sneaky scheme by Goldman Sachs to sell America short. It's long gone.

It won't be missed — except to answer questions. Some of the 901 pages of documents in the SEC's case against CEO Lloyd Blankfein's Goldman crew strongly hint that Goldman's outside counsel may have been directly involved in Goldman's lack of disclosure about how shitty this CDO was.

What did McKee Nelson know about Goldman's side-bet chicanery? Who knows? Should we expect someone to hang? As we keep pointing out (and now Bill Clinton agrees), Goldman probably didn't break any laws, except in God's eyes, and what's She going to do about it?

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​There's a recurring theme that keeps popping up on our radar, and we're going to have to go ahead and mention it for all sorts of reasons, but mostly because, after thinking about it long and hard and engaging in a vigorous session of Rock-Paper-Scissors with Foster to finally settle the issue, it's become quite clear that we are not in support of this trend. At all.

The trend is... snakes.

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​In the last 26 months, city taxi drivers have illegally flipped a switch on their meters to charge a higher out-of-town rate on rides within the five boroughs 1.8 million times, according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which believes that riders were overcharged $8.3 million dollars.

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​If you ever wondered whether you can still "get got" for your money once you've died, the answer is yes.

Police report that an emergency room worker at Westchester Medical Center has been arrested for stealing credit cards from a dying plane crash victim, and then going on a buck wild spending spree.

Anthony Vassell, 33, of the Bronx, allegedly stole the credit cards of Daniel Bisk, 53, of Pleasantville, who was flown to the hospital by medical helicopter after a small plane he was flying in crashed in the woods on November 22. The pilot was killed in the crash, and Bisk ultimately died of his injuries on December 1.

That's when Vassell, a patient care worker, saw an opportunity to ball out with a dead guy's money, police say.

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A survivor got kicked off the island — that's a real survivor we're talking about: Eta Eckstein, 92, was in a rehab facility when all her belongings from her rent-controlled Bay Ridge apartment were tossed into the street. Lost forever are the Holocaust survivor's heirlooms, family photos and papers, and so on. This was actuality, not a reality show.

Her grandson, Idan, tells NBC News the sad story. An attorney for landlord Morris Piller insists it was a legal eviction.