Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to man. Joe Biden came to Manhattan for a couple of fundraisers last week which gave the

NYPD a fine excuse to close off as many streets as humanly possible, which is why some

people go into law enforcement for the chance to make civilians stand behind barriers.

And there I stood looking at York Avenue, abandoned except for a few cop cars, lights flashing.

I'd crossed over from the west side in a cab driven by a cab

who'd been at it for 39 years and who was highly irritated by the blockages

also said the economy is tanking, shops, or closing people abandoning the city,

crime up Wall Street in trouble.

But at the same time, he said said it's still number one the greatest city in the world.

New Yorkers have this ability to express despair and municipal pride in the same sentence.

So I overtipped him and I hiked 12 blocks to my doctor who took my blood pressure and said it was excellent.

So I owe Joe for getting me to exercise.

I was so surprised though by his language recently describing

his likely November opponent which I read in a paper, I won't name, not the Times,

a two-word term, a participle of concupiscence modifying a word for a common human orifice.

Joe, unlike the other guy, is a churchgoer, and if my chest had a bazoom, I would clutch

it, but it doesn't, not yet yet I just wonder where are we headed I was brought up in a nice

home with clean sheets where never a door was slammed,

nor did my family use bad language.

We even shrank at the euphemisms.

And so, one day, not long ago sitting in Starbucks the stool slid out from under me and I spilled half a large latte in my lap and I said and this is a direct quote

oh for heaven's sake.

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