ah yes, priorities

good thing new york city's city council is dealing with the hard hitting issue (no pun intended) of passing a bill to ban aluminum bats from high school baseball games. i mean it really is much more important than historical buildings being torn down to put up oversized, flimsy luxury condos. or hey, why don't we all just keep ignoring the fact that the newtown creek area is a toxic waste dump that never is getting cleaned up unless the city does something about it. or that there is a homeless problem in the city. or how about the insane amount of traffic in a city that has really great public transportation. or that rent just keeps going up and up and up until there will only be investment bankers living in manhattan. or...