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My own good is my own damn business
At 4:30 p.m. Friday, our governor took to the airwaves to deliver one of those sound bites for which he is nationally famous. He brought up the topic of some people who were still on the beach in Monmouth County in the face of the oncoming hurricane. “Get the hell off the beach,” he said.
It was good advice and I took it. I drove up to Manasquan to check the surf. It looked good, so I got the hell off the beach and went for a surf.
I gather this is not the sort of behavior our governor sought to encourage. But the day I start taking advice about the ocean from an out-of-shape lawyer is the day I decide that maybe breathing H20 isn’t such a bad idea after all.
After Chris Christie’s performance in the run-up to Hurricane Irene, we should change our nickname. We’re no longer the Garden State. We’re the Nanny State. For a few days there, it was impossible to turn on the TV without hearing Christie and New York Nanny Mike Bloomberg tell citizens what they should do for their own good. (Mulshine, The Star-Ledger)
