It's rough.  Perhaps I'm being a little bit generous by "wishing" illness to return to Thuggiani, or by not seeking to have it banished from his otherwise-miserable life.  When I say I may be "being a little bit generous", I mean that literally.  Saying that means Thuggiani has, over the last 25 years, managed to conduct himself so egregiously as to distract me from my self-discipline of not wishing illness on others and not being affected by the injustice, chicanery and deceit they perpetrate, at least to the point I may find myself giving in to the lower temptation to derive some satisfaction from his illness.  It took a lot, but he's dealt out a lot over the last 25 years.  He got the better of me - and that means he's taken my time and energy - making me "generous" for giving it away without hope of recompense.

The article only glanced over the daily drumbeat of his injustices and dictatorial conduct.  It said nothing of his making his Rethug bones as Reagan's hatchet man, breaking PATCO in 1981 and ushering in all the anti-union, anti-worker changes of the last 25 years.  That strike was the turning point - and Thuggiani was the fulcrum on which it turned, and the man driving the first screw.  Every one of today's unfair labor practices derives from the precedents set in that strike - replacement workers, followed by Bankruptcy abuse, followed by no-overtime - you name it.  The article said nothing about the fact that, while all (or nearly all) the people working at (and being sickened during) the cleanup at Ground Zero were unionized - construction workers, cops, firefighters, you name it - Thuggiani never once - once - said one favorable word about the unions and their response.  

What should mystify me is that the same union members (not their leadership) think Thuggiani's a great guy and likely would vote for him.  It doesn't because those union members are the Northeastern analog to the rebel-flag-in-pickup-truck-with-gunrack-NASCAR southerners Howard Dean spoke of reaching out to - they vote against their own economic and social interest because they perceive "tough" leaders as being better for them.  Makes no sense, but there it is.

And the article never touched on Thuggiani's cousin-wife, either.  

Or how he regularly coerces free radio air time (with a swooning, more-than-friendly interviewer) during the 4th or 5th innings of Yankee game radio broadcasts by merely showing up in the press box.  Lord knows whether he pays for his seats next to the dugout - each of those go for $300 advance/$400 day of game this coming year.