Isn't It Ironic?
Via Joe Gandelman, who is guest-blogging at Dean's World, comes the fact that James Taranto is touting Rudy Giuliani for the newly opened position of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Presumably, should the Bush Administration take Taranto's suggestion (not likely, IMO), Giuliani would continue to pay any NYC parking tickets he might get. Because those of us who lived in NYC during Giuliani's years as mayor remember the big tiff he had with the U.N. over diplomats not paying their parking tickets (diplomatic immunity and all). It got to the point where Giuliani was suggesting to the U.N. that it might leave NYC, because think of what the prime East Side real estate was worth! How funny would it be if the man who suggested the U.N. get out of NYC wound up being the U.S. ambassador to it?*
*Again, not saying it's going to happen, because I don't think it will. So should anybody who hates New York happen to stop by, spare me the insults about New Yorkers thinking the world revolves around them.