Brodner’s Person of the Day: Rudy the Impaler

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Let us pause and note, among other news of the day, the proud work of the good people of Florida who have banished from public life (for the foreseeable) Rudy the Impaler. Never to be mayor or president . . . or to ever again publicly turn Ground Zero into a grotesque banquet hall. Down he goes and how wonderful to watch. Die, Dracula, die.