Fossella Sinking: Vito Fossella, the bull-necked pretty boy fighting to retain his Staten Island congressional seat, has just received a C+ rating from The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association, IAVA, a delicious development considering Fossella bases his reelection hopes on The War on Terror. We at Recharger are pleased that the guy who DailyGotham.com calls a “Bush lap dog, Social Security flip-flopper and scandal-ridden sleazebag,” got the rating from IAVA, the nation’s leading advocacy group for veterans of the debacles in Iraq in Afghanistan--mainly because, don’t ask why, we have a thing about blow-dried hair.
Dating Wars Update: Men do make passes at girls who wear glasses. Christine Whelan’s new book Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women, claims that smart girls, contrary to popular opinion and a casual glimpse into nearly any marriage, do not make guys cringe in red-faced humiliation at the obvious gender IQ differences. Citing Whelan’s study, an AM New York piece reassures smart women that
1) they WILL get married. Just later.
2) Men do NOT want to marry the maid. Oh, now we get it--maids are dumb.
Size Does Matter. Recharger does not hate the delirious, sometimes scary designs hatched from the fevered minds of urban architects. But, we wonder, why must everything be so BIG? (don’t bother answering, we already know the answer). The diamond atop Diane von Furstenberg’s new HQ at the corner of 14th and Washington Streets is refreshingly smallish, Gothamist reports.