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Apart from New York’s thuggish governor, my favorite people on earth are Italian-Americans. Period. My best friend since age 7 is named Antonio. I spent my happiest hours as a child in his family’s basement, breathing in the garlic my shanty-Hibernian mother literally thought was toxic. (I once slipped some in her chain-smoker’s cough medicine for April Fool’s Day, and Mom called the Poison Control Bureau. The nice man on the phone asked her immediately, “Ma’am, are you … Irish?” )
Ant’s family kept the upstairs all wrapped in plastic slipcovers, with the “nice” furniture set aside for “company.” But no “company” important enough ever appeared. I think it would have required all three of the Holy Trinity showing up, plus the Blessed Virgin Mary. And also Mario Lanza. Then … maybe.
Antonio’s hard-working, upstanding parents came to New York City from Abruzzi in the late 1950s. They both slaved at garment factories, never learned English, but managed to buy a house that’s now worth a million bucks. My parents grew up knowing English, my mom preferred “Catholic parish gambling” to working, and they both died without a nickel. So there’s our American success story. The Dictatorship of the Guidoteriat
But now our country teeters on the very brink of failure, and it’s thanks in large part to men like Andrew Cuomo. And I do taunt Ant about it, since he still lives in New York. “A disgrazziato ,” he calls Cuomo. “A total Guido.” Now in case you don’t know the word, it refers to low-class, thuggish, Italian-American males fond of track suits, flashy gold rope chains, and “getting in your face.” Think of the TV show Jersey Shore.
Cuomo, of course, is little different from other blue-state governors. Except that he adds a special strip-joint bouncer bravado when he tramples all over our rights and the Constitution in pointy, “roach-killer” shoes. On the rare occasions when journalists interrupt his Emmy performance portraying a public servant, he gives them a fierce simian glare. It’s as if they were low-status males sniffing around some member of his harem in heat. While […]
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
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