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You Know NYCR?

Back in 80 when I first got a place there I was 22 and sort of a libertarian-moderate-conservative who hunted and liked guns and had old fashioned ideas about women.

After a half dozen cocktail parties and being around Columbia and Barnard and NYU faculty and grad students and always being on the defensive about being a mere Southerner, I became pretty much what I am today.....a knuckledragger.

I got on well with Israelis and local Italians and Irish but the intelligentsia and literati made me hostile and resentful....I remember Andrea Dworkin at 72nd and Broadway with her table set up railing about men and then the Tawana Brawley garbage....and so forth.

Now....I get angry here just being in the Vandy neighborhood with the same crap.

NYC is the center of the human beehive universe but they can have it. Great place when you are young though.