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Thirteen days without seeing The Record, and what greets me when I unfold the paper today is a front page with more glorification of the filthy rich owner of a New York sports team who died in July.

It's business as usual for Castrated Francis Scandale, editor of the Woodland Park daily, an ass-slapping, high-fiving jock-editor who loves nothing more than putting sports on Page 1.

The caption with the A-1 photo tells us Yankees manager Joe Girardi is "looking at the plaque of George Steinbrenner." We can't see the manager's face or his hands, and I suppose the copy editor wanted to dissuade readers from any notion that Girardi is praying to one of his gods. I suppose the next Steinbrenner story we see will inform us the 80-year-old was mummified.

A paper owned by a wealthy family glorifies other rich people, and ignores minorities. That's no surprise when the publisher is Greedy Stevie Borg, who is nothing like his father. Even when Malcolm A. Borg was hitting the sauce every day, he was a far better captain of industry than the two spoiled brats he raised in the big house on Englewood's East Hill -- Stephen and Legal Beagle Jennifer A. Borg.

What else is on the former Hackensack daily today?

Why bury on A-3 Governor Christie's pledge to cut income taxes on the rich? Isn't that Page 1 news, as Christie continues to cater to his wealthy supporters at the expense of the middle and working classes?

Loafs A Lot Deirdre Sykes, head assignment editor, leads the Local news section with police news -- a fatal tractor-trailer accident in the middle of the night. The driver burned to death.

Am I the only one who feels it is in poor taste for a second L-1 story to refer to two Korean suspects in a cooking oil theft as "greasy," even if the reporter is quoting a detective?

What about the breathless story on Jews buying sukkahs for the Feast of Tabernacles (photo)? Staff Writer Deena Yellin gives us these gems in her L-1 story: "Trucks pulsed in and out of the driveway," "e-mails floated across cyberspace," "keep up with the Goldbergs" and "bonding in the great outdoors." (How do you bond in the "great outdoors" when you're inside a sukkah?).

The reporter never mentions whether any of the sukkahs are heated. As every Jew who has eaten in one at this time of the year knows, you freeze your ass off.

I didn't see any Hackensack, Teaneck or Englewood municipal news in Local today.

In Better Living, where Witch Barbara Jaeger waves her wand as features director, the 15 Minute Chef appears on F-2 under the sponsorship of a kitchenware store in Paramus. How cozy. This weekly feature once ran in the middle of the page with a big color photo.