Bada Bing? Bada Boom.

OpinionJournal ^ | May 13, 2004 | Peggy Noonan

[discostu]

Notice nobody ever get up in arms about characters like Hesch of movies that portray Meyer Lansky. Why is it they assume we can look past the "stereotype" of Jewish mobsters but can't look past it when the mobsters are Italian? One of the funniest parts of the Sopranos is that the characters that spend the most time complaining about hte stereotype are the mobsters themselves... I guess people assuming they're mobsters probably interferes with business.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Terrorist threats? Cloning? Catholic bishops? Does Peggy have a theme here, or is she just stringing together a series of random thoughts?

[MadelineZapeezda]

Bada Bing? Bada Boom....

Why those are the names of the two newest casino type gaming establishments in our small town. Now I think there are 84 in a town of 25,000. Neighboring state Penna...don't vote for slots the same thing will happen in your towns across the state.

[breakem]

I remember when members of the Gambino (or one of the others) started the Italian Anti-defamation League. They had a rally/picnic at a park in NY. Someone was shot at the rally. I never laughed so hard. My nonno was a hardworking guy and lived until 92. Never committed a crime as far as I know. That's the heritage he passed on to us. I have enough esteem to tell the difference between a gangster and my family and to laugh at myself and especially others.

[alloysteel]

Port Newark a potential target for al-Qaeda? If a massive explosion took place there, some might consider it urban renewal....

Except for its obvious impact of the whole structure of the Port Authority, and the financial infrastructure of New York City.

[condi2008]

It does seem somewhat disconnected. Generally I appreciate her personal perspective.

"Not under man, but under God and ??"

[Lurking Libertarian]

"Not under man, but under God and ??"

... the law.

[sheik yerbouty]

I think it was one of the Costellos.

[breakem]

Lou?

[Arizona]

Why doesn't our government provide us all with the means to survive an expected nuclear, biological or chemical attack? Why doesn't our government provide us with what I think of as a "get out of Dodge" kit--a protective suit, a regulation gas mask, information on which direction to walk in, or rather run in, and how soon, after Port Newark, or Times Square, or the Sears Tower, or the Shrine Auditorium, is hit? Why aren't they doing this?

I am surprised to see all the discussion about the Sopranos and not about THIS PARAGRAPH.

az

[sheik yerbouty]

Joe..