This has been the scene over the last 2 days: policemen on EVERY corner in Midtown, blaring emergency sirens, ungodly amounts of black tinted-window town cars and SUVs, miles of barricades/orange cones, and secret service men in unusual locations. Needless to say, not your everyday neighborhood block party. And of course there’s only one man to ever cause such a ruckus: GWB. He’s in town for the UN General Assembly, where he is attempting to “comfort worried world leaders that he is doing his utmost to contain the damage from the US financial meltdown.” Super. Please just get out of my city neighborhood so I can go back to commuting to work without traveling through a warzone. Kthanksbye.