Thursday's Throbbing Absurdities: A New York Assassination, EPA's Gold Bars, and Pre-Emptively Pardon Who?

If you’re considering a visit to New York City anytime soon, maybe you should wait until Donald Trump has been in office a few months, taken the DOJ/FBI heat off Mayor Eric Adams, and worked with him to calm the place down. The Big Apple hasn’t been a nice place to visit for a while now, and more resembles the post-apocalyptic place portrayed in “Escape From New York” than the one shown in “Miracle on 34th Street.”

Yesterday was a great example. Shortly before the day dawned, the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, was gunned down on the street - not 34th, but 53rd - by an assassin wearing a dark hoodie and gray backpack and armed with a 9-mm pistol.

Thompson and hundreds of other employees of UHC - the largest healthcare insurer in the United States - were gathered at the Hilton where executives were to roll out plans for the company’s future. Amazingly, the business meeting rolled along uninterrupted for more than an hour after the killing until another company exec took the stage and announced everyone was dismissed due to “a very serious medical situation with one of our team membees…as a result, I’m afraid we’re going to have to bring to a close the event today.”