The Jersey

I'm a big fan of The Jersey Journal, the local newspaper for most of Hudson County. How else would I know that most of my fellow citizens (or at least most of the riders who get picked up on the Light Rail without a ticket) have warrants out or that someone is being busted just about every other day at the Rite Aid for shoplifting razor blades? Without the Jersey Journal I wouldn't know about the mini-riots that break out with alarming regularity when a bar brawl spills out into the street and the police are called in. And when did young people become so brazen? Almost every one of these mini-riot stories ends with some young person (usually a woman!) spitting at the police. Drunk drivers also seem to be everywhere, falling asleep behind the wheel and at stop lights or plowing into parked cars. Thomas Hobbes famously noted that the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." A regular reader of The Jersey would be hard-pressed to disagree.