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Blogs
October 26, 2012
Bloomberg to Bloggers (Us): Stop Dumbing Down Society; We're Trying, Mr. Mayor!
On Wikipedia, a blog is defined as a "discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). As you're reading this, you are on the Village Voice's Run ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2012
The Pros of a Billionaire-as-Mayor: Bloomberg to Donate $500k to Same-Sex Marriage Campaigns
After twelve years of Bloomberg, we all have more or less assimilated and/or recognized the personal wealth of the citizen-in-chief. His announcement on Day One to accept a dollar-a-year salary and opt out of living in Gracie Mansion was the beginning of a long-term acceptance that, yes, our Mayor h ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2012
The Mayor On The Election: Romney, Obama Economic Plans "Are Not Real"
Since he endorsed then-President Bush in 2004, Mayor Bloomberg has remained relatively mum during the election season. He didn't endorse anyone in 2008 and will not do so this year either. The Republican-turned-independent politician likes to pull strings from the outside instead: just last week, th ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2012
Mike Bloomberg Opened Homeless Shelters On The Upper West Side. Gasp!
The U.S. economy currently is in the shitter, and with that comes high unemployment, which, naturally leads to more homeless people. So, in response to the spike in homelessness, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has setup homeless shelters in some of New York City's pricier neighborhoods.And who lives in New Yo ... More >>
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October 2, 2012
You Can Get A 1,200-Calorie Burger At Barclays Center. But You Can't Get A 20-Ounce Soda
Mayor Mike Bloomberg's ban on big-boy cups for non-diet sodas at New York City restaurants, theaters, and sports venues is yet to take effect. However, the new Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn already is voluntarily adhering to the new guidelines, which limit cup sizes for "sugary drinks" to 16 oun ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2012
Mike Bloomberg, Food Cop: Mayor Pushing Private Hospitals To Follow City Food Guidelines
Hospital food, in general, sucks -- and thanks to Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his incessant war on flab, it's about to suck a lot more.Hizzoner announced today that several private hospitals in New York City have agreed to follow the mayor's dietary guidelines used for city-run hospitals. In other word ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2012
Big Sodas: Where You Can Still Get Them
Mayor Bloomberg's war on obesity got a big thumbs up when city officials passed a ban on large sugary drinks. That goes into effect in six months, but there are ways for pigs like us to get around it and still suck in lots of liquid sugar (while secretly smoking in nightclubs and having sex in bath ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2012
Mike Bloomberg's Moronic "Big-Gulp Ban" Heads To Vote, Expected To Pass *UPDATE*
UPDATE: The Big-Gulp Ban has passed. Soda fans say they're "exploring legal options."We'd like to advise readers to try and get a nap in at work today -- we wouldn't want any fussy-ness when Mayor Mike Bloomberg's latest attempt to treat you like babies gets approved this afternoon -- which it likel ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2012
I Just Drank 100 Ounces Of Mt. Dew In 90 Minutes. Screw You, Mike Bloomberg
Mayor Mike Bloomberg's dopey "Big-Gulp Ban" was approved by a city health council this morning -- which means one thing: a sophomoric, unhealthy and immature gesture needs to be made on someone's part.That said, I have just finished my 100th ounce of Mt. Dew in roughly 90 minutes. I'm pretty sure my ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2012
New Jersey Shooting Update: Suspect An Ex-Marine; Killed Two Before Turning Gun On Self
The suspect in this morning's mass-shooting at a New Jersey grocery store has been identified as an ex-Marine who's worked at the store for the last two weeks. Additionally, authorities say he shot two people before turning the gun on himself.Authorities say the suspect entered the Pathmark store in ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2012
Mike Bloomberg And His 11 Homes Think New York Homeless Shelters Are Too Damn Nice. Homeless Disagree
According to Mayor Mike Bloomberg, there's a reason the less fortunate are staying in homeless shelters 30 percent longer than they have in the past: New York City's homeless shelters are just too damn nice.In response to a Wall Street Journal report that found the average length of stay for familie ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2012
Mike Bloomberg's Breakfast Bullying: Yay Or Nay?
Of all the things for Mayor Mike Bloomberg to oppose, we didn't think breakfast for hungry kids would be one of them. But it is.In fairness, it's not the mayor's desire to keep hungry kids from eating breakfast that's led to his opposition to a City Council-backed plan to provide "the most important ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2012
Mike Bloomberg, Soda Cop: 60 Percent Of New Yorkers Hate Proposed Big-Gulp Ban
There's good news and bad news regarding Mayor Mike Bloomberg's proposed "Big-Gulp" ban. First the good news: a new poll shows that even fewer New Yorkers support Hizzonor's idiotic plan now than they did when it initially was proposed.The bad news: it's no skin off Bloomberg's ass -- he's not runni ... More >>
Blogs
August 22, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: Fat Kids Eating Two Breakfasts Is Riskier Than Kids Not Eating At All
A few months ago, we told you about how Mayor Mike Bloomberg's office was enforcing a ban on donating food to homeless shelters because the city wouldn't be able to monitor the sodium content of the food -- hungry homeless people (who don't care how much sodium is in their food) be damned.At the tim ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2012
Bye-Bye, Restrooms
Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently signed legislation that will allow small restaurants and coffee shops with an occupancy of 30 people of fewer to have one bathroom rather than two. Yep, that means the bathrooms are going to be unisex. But wait, it gets worse. According to The New York Times: "Th ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2012
The NYCHA Spending Saga Continues as Bloomberg Brings Aid to Agency
On Wednesday, the New York City Housing Authority released a consulting report done by the Boston Consulting Group that painted an ugly picture of what goes on in the largest public housing agency in the country. It was your typical bureaucratic clusterfuck - backlogs, overcharged items, the whole n ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2012
Citywide Bike Share Program Delayed Again, Will (Maybe) Launch March 2013
Remember when Citi Bikes, the citywide biking share system that was going to Change Everything, was going to be launched in July? And then it got pushed back to August because of software issues? Well August is here now, and there still aren't any motherfucking bikes. What's going on? "There are ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2012
Mike Bloomberg, Health Cop: New Yorkers Hate Big-Gulp Ban, Baby Formula Hide-And-Seek
Mayor Mike Bloomberg's nanny-state has taken a turn for the absurd with his plans to limit how much soda New Yorkers are allowed to drink and to hide baby formula from new mothers -- and voters seem to think it's just as ridiculous as we do.A new poll shows that the vast majority of New York voters ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: No Free Vibrators For You! (Without A Permit, Anyway)
Unlike other media outlets, we'll spare you the endless orgasm puns and just come right out and say it: the Trojan condom company held a free vibrator giveaway throughout the city yesterday -- that is, until Mayor Mike Bloomberg came and pissed on the parade.The condom conglomerate planned to giveaw ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2012
Go Get Your Free Vibrators, New York -- You Now Have Mike Bloomberg's Permission
Good news, ladies (and certain gentlemen): Mayor Mike Bloomberg has given the Trojan condom company the green light to give away 10,000 free vibrators on the streets of New York.As we reported earlier, Bloomberg's office put the kibosh on Trojan's sex-toy promotion, citing the fact that the company ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2012
Mike Bloomberg On Chick-Fil-A: Banning Soda Is OK. Banning Homophobic Chicken Peddlers Is Un-American
For a guy who's hell-bent on imposing his will on just about everyone, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has taken a rather uncharacteristic stance in the ongoing flap over the outrage stemming from homophobic comments made by Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy -- especially for a guy who claims to be a sta ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2012
Mike Bloomberg, Gun Hypocrite: City Sells 28,000 Pounds Of Shell Casings To Georgia Ammo Store For Re-filling
A report was released earlier this week by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives showing that of the 8,793 guns seized in New York in 2011, only 1,595 were actually purchased here.Numbers like that fuel Mayor Mike Bloomberg's incessant call for other states to implement tougher reg ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2012
Mike Bloomberg's Nanny-State Tackles Breast Feeding; Mayor Plans To Hide Baby Formula
Mayor Mike Bloomberg's nanny-state has officially made the jump from figurative to literal -- the mayor now actually wants to play nanny (sigh).Starting September 3, the city will encourage hospitals to hide baby formula behind locked doors in an effort to encourage (trick) new mothers into breast f ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2012
NYC Living Wage Bill Heads to Court
'Living' sounds much better than 'minimum.'When Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced the introduction of a 'living' wage bill, Mayor Bloomberg compared the gesture to Soviet statism in April, arguing that "the last time we really had a big managed economy was the USSR, and that didn't work ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
Michael Bloomberg Slams Barack Obama, Mitt Romney On Gun Policies
Immediately after the Aurora, Colo., shootings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg demanded that Pres. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney address gun violence. And this morning on "The John Gambling Show with Mayor Mike," Bloomberg continued his call to action and went on the attack, lambasting Obama and Romney for ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
Gun Bully Mike Bloomberg To Host Fundraiser For NRA Darling Scott Brown
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has made it explicitly clear that he hates guns. For example, he recently urged cops across the country to go on strike in protest of the nation's lax gun laws. Additionally, he founded the organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns in an effort to get rid of loophol ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2012
Mike Bloomberg, Health Cop: Mayor Takes Aim At Booze
First he came for your smokes. Then he came for your trans-fats. Then he came for your sugary drinks -- and now Mayor Mike Bloomberg has your booze in his sights.In the mayor's latest effort to protect you from yourself, the city Health Department now plans to tackle alcohol abuse in the Big Apple, ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: Cops Should Go On Strike Until Gun Laws Are Changed (Sigh)
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg's got a brand new plan in his crusade to rid the world of guns: cops should go on strike.Don't worry -- it makes complete sense (according to Bloomberg, anyway, who also thinks donating food to homeless shelters is a bad idea because he can't monitor the amount of ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2012
Would Stricter Gun Laws Have Done Anything To Prevent Colorado Killing Spree?
As the entire country tries to make sense of what happened in Colorado last week, the obligatory debate whenever one of these mass shootings occurs has commenced: would stricter gun laws have prevented 24-year-old James Holmes from marching into a sold out movie theater and shooting more than 70 peo ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2012
Mike Bloomberg on Aurora Shooting: What Are Obama, Romney Going To Do About Guns?
As developments emerge about an Aurora, Colo. shooting that left at least 12 dead and 50 injured, Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- long a staunch advocate of gun control -- has slammed both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for failing to adequately address firearms issues. On the "The John Gambling Show with ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2012
Mike Bloomberg's Worthless Big-Gulp Ban: 60,000 Pissed Off New Yorkers Can't Be Wrong
As you know, Mayor Mike Bloomberg's idiotic plan to ban soda served in containers larger than 16 ounces makes precisely zero sense; relegating adults to children incapable of making their own decisions aside, the plan will do nothing but hurt New York businesses -- all while doing absolutely nothing ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2012
Harlem Walking Tour Reveals Why Mike Bloomberg's An "Idiot" And His Big Gulp Ban Will Only Hurt Businesses (And Piss People Off In The Process)
As you know, Mayor Mike Bloomberg's proposed "Big Gulp Ban" is one of the stupidest ideas in the history of both stupidity and ideas. In addition to doing literally nothing to curb obesity, it also will hurt businesses, piss people off, and it relegates adults to children who are incapable of making ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2012
Mike Bloomberg Doesn't Find "Big Gulp" March Very Funny (Even Though It Is)
New Yorkers opposed to Mayor Mike Bloomberg's proposed ban on big-boy sodas marched in front of City Hall yesterday in what's been dubbed the "Million Big-Gulp March."The title, obviously, is a play on the 1995 "Million Man March" on Washington D.C., and is a pretty funny idea considering the less-t ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2012
Anti-Bloomberg-Drink-Ban Advocates Hit the Beach for Petition Signatures
"This is New York City. No one tells us what neighborhood to live in, what team to root for or what deli to eat at." Or so the logic goes. In the New Yorkers for Beverage Choices' first viral video, the narrator attacks Mayor Bloomberg's sugary drink ban by sticking to the basics: Big Apple den ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2012
Soda Ban Backlash: Mike Bloomberg's Plan Takes Supersized P.R. Hit
Many have found Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed supersized soda ban increasingly hard to stomach. Though Mike's move -- up for a Board of Health vote July 24 -- has gotten quite a bit of criticism, opponents nationwide have started boosting efforts to fight the measure.
Blogs
July 5, 2012
Mike Bloomberg's Hot Dog Puns: So, Who Actually "Writes This Shit?"
Mayor Mike Bloomberg apparently found his pun-packed speech at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest weigh-in on Tuesday a bit too pun-y -- he interrupted his prepared statement to ask "who writes this shit?"
Blogs
July 3, 2012
Mike "Everything In Moderation" Bloomberg To Preside Over Hot Dog Contest Weigh-In
What was that thing Mayor Mike Bloomberg said about eating in "moderation?" If we're not mistaken, it went a little something like this: the mayor's proposed ban on big-boy cups for sugary drinks like soda is just "encouragement to do things in moderation."That said, food-bully Bloomberg this mornin ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2012
Belly Girl: Japanese Porno Comic Fetishizes Fatness [NSFW]
Hentai is the branch of Japanese comics and anime that dabbles in porno - sometimes harder core than you can enact in real life, and touching on topics too obscene and abstruse for regular porno. Recently, FiTR became aware of a small subset of anime that treated fatness as a fetish, not in the way ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2012
More Sweet Treats: Dairy Queen Coming To New York City
DQ's sweet treats are coming to the city. According to Bloomberg, Dairy Queen is expected to open three or four stores in the city, including one in Staten Island this year. It's a brave move for the company to make, especially in the wake of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban of sales of sugary soft ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2012
Bloomberg's Union Fight Over Teacher Evaluations
The Hozziner is gettin' a little feisty.Last Saturday, The Voice reported on the teacher evaluation argument that was brewing in Albany between the unions and Bloomberg over whether or not to release the information to parents or the public. The extremes were set in stone: the unions favored pa ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2012
Is Your Teacher "Highly Ineffective?" Job Evaluations Face Publicity in Albany
In a legislative roll that includes the cyber-bulling bill mentioned today by the Voice, Albany lawmakers are trying to hammer out as many laws as possible before its Thursday session deadline. And this one has a whole lot of merit.Next on the agenda, Governor Cuomo, the State Legislature and city o ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2012
Mike Bloomberg: Spotting Hookers Is Hard (And More On Young Women Dressed In A "Sporty Way")
Pimpin', as you know, ain't easy -- and according to Mayor Mike Bloomberg, spotting a hooker is no walk in the park, either.On his weekly radio show this morning, Bloomberg voiced his concerns regarding a bill passed by the City Council that would create stiffer penalties for cab drivers who contrib ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2012
Melissa Mark-Viverito, Bill de Blasio Call on City To Retire Carriage Horses
Around fifty people gathered on the steps of City Hall this afternoon to demand the City Council test out a prototype electric car that they hope can replace horse-drawn carriages. That proposal, Intro. 86A, is sponsored in the City Council by Member Melissa Mark-Viverito. New Yorkers for Clean, Li ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2012
Michael Bloomberg's Supersized Soda Ban: Can It Battle Obesity in The First Place?
The Times has a story today about Mayor Mike Bloomberg's battle with supersized sodas and how his fight is playing out in New York's poorest borough, the Bronx. Part of Bloomberg's move, the article explains, stems from the persistence of obesity in the Bronx. Though anti-obesity measures have bee ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2012
Bloomberg on Stop and Frisk: "Should be Amended, Not Ended"
This must have been awkward.Earlier this morning, in front of a Sunday congregation at an African-American church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the Hozziner defended the NYPD's increasingly controversial "stop and frisk" policy. With its policy's biggest fan, Commissioner Ray Kelly, in the front row of ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2012
You Can't Do S**T Anymore! What's Left?
You can't have sex anymore, for obvious reasons. You can't drink because people found out a while ago that it's an illness and now everyone's recovering and staying away from the devil booze as if it were death itself.
Blogs
June 7, 2012
Should Michael Bloomberg Treat Obesity Like Smoking?
An article in London's Evening Standard, "Smoking is so last century: the new stigma is obesity," got us thinking: would Mayor Mike Bloomberg do a better job fighting fat-making foods, such as super-sized sodas, by treating them like cigarettes -- taxing them rather than banning them, that is? To ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2012
Gay Inc Takes On Stop and Frisk, the NAACP Goes to the Stonewall Inn, and Other Signs of the "Black/Gay Divide"
So, the promised fallout between blacks and gays continues! Four weeks after President Obama came out for same-sex marriage, today will see one of the most significant signs of a new alliance between traditional race-based civil rights groups and the current wave of LGBT oriented civil rights group ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2012
Mike Bloomberg's Ban On Big-Boy Sodas: Roughly Four Out Of Ten New Yorkers Want To Be Treated Like Children
We weren't too shocked this afternoon when we learned that a poll conducted over the weekend found that the majority of New Yorkers don't like Mayor Mike Bloomberg's proposed ban on sugary drinks being sold in containers larger than 16 ounces. However, we were stunned to learn that more than 40 perc ... More >>
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June 3, 2012
Bloomberg Did Not Particularly Like His Nanny Clothes in Ad
Who knew an overdose on calories could piss so many people off?After Mayor Bloomberg announced his soda ban this past week, the blogosphere and Tweet-world exploded with arguments over whether or not this was a legal move against obesity. And the tensions were high: fellow Voice writer James King ve ... More >>
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