Tip to out-of-town visitors: If you buy something here in New York and want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.

We put those signs up right away to inform our visitors.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.