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After more than a week straight of covering divisive Republican politics at the GOP's quadrennial laughfest, the editors of The Record focus today on stupid human tricks.
Only two Page 1 items stir much interest:
The ex-Marine who killed two co-workers at an Old Bridge supermarket and the unintentional suicide of a teenager, who left his brains smeared on a Fort Lee overpass.
The supermarket carnage only remind readers they'll never see any meaningful gun control until members of the National Rifle Association or the politicians who take its blood money lose children in a random shooting.
Stupid humans
The front of Local is dominated by a report on a 16-year-old boy who stuck his head out of the roof hatch on a double-decker party bus and was fatally injured when he hit an overpass on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge (L-1).
The story notes the bus has "a hatch in its roof in case it tips over," but fails to say it is an escape hatch for passengers when other exits are blocked after an accident.
Lawyers reading the story are no doubt salivating over the millions they hope to recover from a wrongful death suit.
Plantation news
The front of Local today continues to report on more layoffs in the largely minority Englewood school system -- an ongoing story since at least July -- at the hands of largely white overseers (L-1).
Another stupid human fell off a ladder at Ridgewood High School (L-2).
Head Assignment Editor Deirdre Sykes ordered the use of two photos of the overweight maintenance worker, and directed they be blown up as much as possible, because she had no other legitimate news for the section -- from Hackensack or anywhere else.
A collision of two cars in Paramus -- with one of the drivers possibly breaking a leg -- also merited a story and photo on L-3 today.
Cracked sidewalks
On the same page, don't miss the scintillating account of sidewalk repairs and "dismantled trees" in Hasbrouck Heights (L-3).
Did anyone read Friday's front or did they obey the command of the lead headline from the Republican National Convention: 'Time to turn the page'?
Saturday's lead editorial on A-11 takes a hard look at Mitt Romney's job-growth promises and notes a continued lack of details -- the kind of honest assessment the Woodland Park daily rarely does for Governor Christie's partisan B.S.
On the front of Friday's Local section, Road Warrior John Cichowski -- the so-called commuting columnist -- continues to cover obscure and irrelevant issues (L-1).
Don't eat here
In Friday's Better Living tab, you know the food at Mykonos Restaurant can't be very good when Restaurant Reviewer Elisa Ung wastes the first third of her appraisal discussing the owner's background.
Her lukewarm 2-star rating instantly tells readers the North Arlington restaurant isn't worth the detour (BL-16 and 17).
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