NJ Officials in Corruption Sting

So 11 public officials and one private citizen were arrested new NJ on corruption charges today.

See article in Bergen Record for details.

Surprised?

Shouldn't be... the state's riddled with corruption. Why the hell would there be any other reason for people paying $14000/year in property taxes? Shit - you can't tell me these people are getting that much in services and that it costs that much to haul the frigging trash!

Somebody's getting paid off and someone's getting screwed - guess which is which.

This is Gonna Be a Good Day

Little things mean a lot... Today with the wife and daughter off on a Girl Scout weekend trip, it's just me an my son.

Saturday morning cartoons, baseball, a game of catch and a trip to the pool today. I haven't looked forward to a weekend in a long time and this is definitely something that's welcome. Little worry about work - only 1 week left before I leave - and no real concerns here other than trying to figure out what we're going to do for dinner tonight.

Later I plan on giving a friend of mine a call - someone who I haven't talked to in a while. She'll be surprised to hear from me and I'm looking forward to catching up a bit. A lot has happened in both our lives since we both left our native NJ quite some time ago. I'm nervous about calling though. She usually had that effect on me.

Time to go throw some batting practice for my son. Damn - this is gonna be a good day.