It’s been a quiet week on King Street since the college is between semesters and the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night carousings are minimal. None the less there has been some disorder as Kevin reported that Marshall got the snot beat out of him last weekend in front of the Stoneyard grill by the canal by a bunch of Puerto Ricans. Kevin isn’t always the most reliable source, but gossip about Marshall’s other antics make the story somewhat believable. The part about the Puerto Ricans doesn’t ring quite true though because there don’t seem to be a lot of Puerto Ricans in Brockport.
According to reports left in the comment section on The Brockporter a bunch of insecure Brockporters have rushed out to buy their Bushmasters and ammo for reasons that aren’t clear to more mentally healthy people, but those in the paranoid, tweaker fringe seem to think that guns are necessary to provide some sense of security in their threatening world. While the State government passed some stricter gun legislation with the exception of Brockport’s representatives, Senator Maziarz and Assemblyman Hawley, the legislators decided to keep it secret who the people are who have these guns. Apparently about 40% of Americans have guns. How many there are on King Street and surrounding blocks is unclear. With the drunken, rowdy behavior it’s a scary thought to think that some of these folks have lethal weapons in their houses. At 46 King Street there have been two home invasions in the last year, but the home owner there has no guns so the intruders are lucky they chose a pacifist to invade.
Not watching much TV, it was delightful to catch Betty White’s Off Their Rockers and notice in between segments that some old folks were hanging banners off an expressway overpass that read “STD free since 1975.” I didn’t catch it at first, but when it sank in, I laughed heartily, and then realized that I have never had an STD. Is this a good thing or the sign of a sheltered life? I don’t know how many STDs there are on King Street, but knowing that 1/3 of sexually active high school females have Chlamydia I would guess that the STDs on King Street are near epidemic proportions.
The Mayor’s case of Official Misconduct got postponed again until February, 2013. Having been arrested last March, 2012, Mayor Castaneda must be making her lawyer rich stringing out this adjudication almost a year and close to the end of her term which expires in June, 2013. Judge David Murante in the Ogden Town Court must be a most patient man to allow this case to meander through his court docket. Most folks seem to agree that Brockport deserved much better mayoral leadership than it has gotten the last 8 years from Castaneda and for 8 years before that from her mentor Mort Wexler. Between the two of them, they almost bankrupted the village and brought it to the brink of dissolution due to the advocacy of the slumlord cabal. The trustees: Hunsinger, Blair, Hanna, Blackman and Andrews have brought the village back from death’s door to some semblance of health. What will happen to the mayor at this point seems moot since she has done about all the harm she can do during her term of office as it winds down to expiration.
The white guys in Brockport are still licking their wounds and buying their guns now that Romney has been defeated and the Muslin Kenyan is back in the white house for a second term. Maziarz and Hawley are the last remnants of the privileged white guys before the young women of color take over in Western New York. Even though it’s getting hotter, and we love our fracked gas, times they are a changing as the days of the privileged white male are over which spreads hope for the more progressive minded along the Erie Canal.
And that’s how it’s been this week in Brockport where the white guys are scrambling to get their guns, the women who are better educated and more intelligent are slowly taking over, and the children are having to transform the messed up world they have been left so they can survive into the next century.
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