Recent Editorial Submissions

On a warm summers night, on a train bound for nowhere, I met up with a gambler, we were both too tired to speak. So we took turns a-strain' out the window at the darkness....then we draaaaank some whiskey and he began to speak, He said.................................

To The Daily News and readers,

I am a straight man with minimal interest in New Jersey politics. These attributes (or lack thereof) however did nothing to ease the feelings of disgust I felt upon reading Mrs. Cavaliere's recent "Voicers" submission! I think that it is you Mrs. Cavaliere, who needs to "wake up" and join the rest of us here in the year 2004. You suggest that "stupid woman" Mrs. McGreevy - wife of New Jersey Governor Jim - should see a doctor for an AIDS test? For your information my dear, sweet, painfully uninformed woman, gay men are not the number one demographic living with the AIDS virus. Sadly, this burden falls upon the shoulders of heterosexual females much like yourself. Your ignorant comment was akin to the WASP-like belief that all African American men are drug dealers or have police records. Mrs. McGreevy not realizing that her husband was gay is just one more instance of something that happens more often than you think. Moreover and far more upsetting, is that a man should have to live a lie in order to save face and lead a productive life of passionate civil service without garnering the hateful, hurtful and yes "stupid" wrath of people like yourself.
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Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light, and the night grew deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression he said for a taste of your whiskey I'll give you some advice. So I handed him my bottle, and he drank down my last swallow.....he said son I have made a life out of reading peoples faces, and if you don't mind me sayin'.............................................................

To The Daily News and Their esteemed Readership,

Arrogant, ignorant, okie warmonger George W. Bush needs to hire a new publicist. I suggest that the first order of business be to keep the first daughters off of page six and every news show on television where they are depicted smiling on their way into every ultra-hip party in New York City. What gall! How nice to know that while the sons and daughters of every hard working, voting citizen are knocking on death’s door in Iraq the Bush girls are out hobnobbing with Manhattan's upper crust. And I would guess that they are not waiting on too many lines outside these shi-shi locales. So while the girls live out their unearned and certainly undeserved fantasies and Mayor Bloomberg personally steps in to defend Mike Wallace in his police matters, George Bush and the rest of the republicans’ filibuster across town denying the existence of “two separate Americas” as put forth by the democrats. If the conflicting images of two privileged rich girls tripping the light fantastic with a personal security detail in tow and that of the death and loss plaguing the brave soldiers in Iraq are not enough to vilify the existence of two separate caste’s living under one flag, then possibly we are all as ignorant as our commander in chief.