NY Times, June 24, 2006 ABOUT NEW YORK Squeegee Men, Still Around, Still Relentless By DAN BARRY
Squeegee men in Manhattan? How, how, so last century. --- The above article is TimesSelect, so I can't forward it. It is a disgusting attack on NYC's poor squeegee men, who Rudolph Giuliani scapegoated relentlessly in his mayoral bids. It includes this paragraph, to give you a flavor of the yuppie racism: "Rodney and Timothy both reeked of something potent, perhaps an especially bad batch of Old Spice. Now Timothy, swaying slightly, was standing in the middle of Dyer Avenue, directing the traffic that raced desperately to avoid a red light and thus his squeegee." --- After reading this tripe, I wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I encourage others to give him a piece of your mind): "Those squeegee guys don't stink half as bad as your American Psycho/yuppie prose." Which elicited this response from him: "wow. i bet you spent all morning coming up with this: nonsensical, with a touch of aggression, and reflective of your failure to read the piece to the end. all in 14 words. if you have a cogent point to make, i'll respond more seriously." I guess Timesmen aren't trained to capitalize the first words in their sentences, or maybe his journalism professor was Marc Cooper. My final response to him: "Go see the documentary on Giuliani."
