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Wait: David Brooks is still citing the Kitty Genovese myth?

November 19, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

Mark Steyn writes:

You could hardly ask for a more poignant emblem of the hollow braggadocio of the West at twilight than the big, beefy, bulked-up shoulder pads and helmets of Penn State football, and the small stunted figures inside.

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Oh, and David Brooks has a NYT column, and Mark Steyn doesn’t.

Me either.

Kitty Genovese is the global warming of urban crime.

(Also: after trying to sit through Adam Carolla’s painful interview with the douchenozzle director of The Boondock Saints, I’m even less eager to watch it than ever.)

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