For spending all night in a mad house, Alex Pareene looks sprightly.
His tweed jacket is a bit rumpled, but there’s no restraining the ironic anti-Wonkette shirt beneath it, crisp and white with fire-engine red piping. As the editor of the popular political blog his shirt derides, Pareene’s usually known for his biting sarcasm. Tonight, Election Night 2006, he seems less acerbic.
Bed-Stuy residents: U.S. overstaying welcome in Iraq
Two weeks after the coalition death toll in Iraq passed 4,000, and a month after one of the youngest casualties of the Iraq war – an 18-year-old Queens resident -- was buried, residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn seem to agree that the U.S. has overstayed its welcome in the Middle East.