I've wondered about this Riverside apartment building since I attended Tiny Tots Nursery School across the street in 1956

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90 Riverside Avenue Unit 4, one bedroom, is available for the low rent of $2,525. I’ll pass on the opportunity to live in this 1838 building, but it’s … interesting what twenty-five hundred (won’t) get you these days.

bedroom access?

presumably, the landlord will provide a seatbelt upon request

A clarification of that picture of 166 Indian Head Road

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Not content with merely perusing Britebart, Brother Gideon has also thoughtfully provided a more accurate photo of 166 Indian Head Road, the listing for which I wrote about yesterday:

causing several readers to question my assertion that the house lacked its own dock. The photo above shows the location of the dock, as Gideon says, “very much on the neighbor’s property”.

Here are some of the listing pictures that gave rise to the confusion:

They do it deliberately because they know that no one reads the corrections to the original hit piece

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Brother Gid took time off from ironing his ascot collection to send along this Britebart article along with the note, “the best part about this article is at the end, the ASTOUNDING list of hoaxes perpetrated by the leftist media (and I think this list actually is missing a few!)”. Gid’s right, of course, so I’m reprinting the original post:

New York Times’ Rush to Smear Charlie Kirk Results in Humiliating Correction

The far-left New York Times rushed to smear the late Charlie Kirk as an anti-Semite, an act that has now resulted in a humiliating correction from the far-left hate-outlet.

The original smear job was published on September 11, 2025. Later, the Times was forced to admit it put antisemitic words in Kirk’s mouth that came from someone else, something he denounced…

A correction was made on Sept. 11, 2025: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement. [bold and italics original]

Here are the lies (in my bold) the Times published that are now deleted:

Mr. Kirk supported Mr. Trump’s campaign against immigration, endorsing the so-called Great Replacement Theory, which claims that immigrants will soon displace white Americans. The unsubstantiated theory also claims that Jews are orchestrating the dilution of white power by allegedly encouraging mass immigration.

“Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them,” he said on his podcast, “The Charlie Kirk Show,” in 2023.

For anyone still stupid enough to suggest this was some sort of mistake—no, it wasn’t.

Honest mistakes are not partisan. One side of the political aisle is not the serial victim of “honest mistakes.”

These “honest mistakes” only ever afflict the right side of the political spectrum over at the Times, which tells us this: These are not honest mistakes. These are deliberate smears published by an extremist outlet hoping no one will notice, as it panders to the extremist customer base that is its only remaining life source.

The New York Times regularly and gleefully traffics in blood libels against its enemies on the political right.  This is their business plan. This is who they are. They hate us, and no more will we give this behavior the benefit of the doubt. This is nothing more or less than the Times sending a dog whistle to the left’s demonic assassination culture.

When the Times and other regime media outlets spend a decade engaging in this…

Go big or stay home; or in this case, go big and lose your home

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40 howard road

I’ve always wondered at the stupidity of bank robbers, whose average take is, according to the FBI, around $3,500, while the average sentence upon conviction is 7.5 years; for anyone who values his time, and admittedly, many of these de-depositors probably don’t, that’s a terrible risk/reward ratio.

So it was with a certain admiration that I read in Greenwich Free Press about the exploits of a Mr. Paul R. Steed, who took the time and effort to at least make the game worth the candle; or it would have been, had he not been caught. He had a nice run, though, and even managed to purchase a modest home in Greenwich at 40 Howard Road in 2023*. That house will apparently be returning to the market soon; Mr. Steed’s own personal resurfacing may be more protracted.

Stamford Man Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Tax Charges Related to Theft of More Than $28 Million from Mars, Inc.

David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced on Thursday that Paul R. Steed, 58, of Stamford, pleaded guilty earlier in the day in Bridgeport to fraud and tax offenses stemming from his commission of multiple frauds against his former employer Mars, Inc.

According to court documents and statements made in court, between approximately 2011 and 2023, Steed was employed by Mars Wrigley, a subsidiary of Mars. Inc. (“Mars”), working remotely from his home in Stamford.

Steed served in several positions at the company and last served as Global Price Risk Manager for Mars Wrigley’s Global Cocoa Enterprise.  As part of his employment, Steed was responsible for managing Mars Wrigley’s participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Sugar-Containing Products Re-Export Program.

In approximately 2016, Steed created a company, MCNA LLC, to mimic an actual Mars entity, Mars Chocolate North America.  He then diverted more than $15 million in Mars assets to a bank account he set up in MCNA’s name by directing sugar refineries purchasing Mars’s re-export credits, obtained through the USDA program, to pay MCNA LLC as if it were a legitimate Mars entity.

Mars had an ownership interest in Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (“ICE”), a financial services company that operated financial exchanges and clearing houses, and received quarterly dividends in connection with that ownership.  In 2017, Steed directed Computershare Limited (“Computershare”), a company that ICE utilized for stock-related services, to pay MCNA LLC for Mars’s dividends from its ownership shares in ICE.  As a result, more than $700,000 in dividend payments were diverted to the MCNA LLC account.  In 2023, after Steed had used a fraudulent letter purportedly from the Mars Treasurer authorizing him to trade ICE shares, Steed directed Computershare to sell Mars’s ICE shares entirely.  Computershare issued a check in the amount of more than $11.3 million, which Steed deposited into the MCNA LLC account.

In addition, from 2013 through 2020, Steed used a company he owned called Ibera LLC to invoice Mars for services Mars did not receive.  Mars paid Ibera LLC more than $700,000 through this scheme.

Steed failed to report and pay taxes on his stolen income on his 2014 through 2023 federal tax returns.

Steed pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years on each count, and one count of tax evasion, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years.

Steed has agreed to pay restitution of $28,410,489 to Mars, Inc., and the government has calculated that he owes the IRS an additional $10,310,680 in back taxes.

The government has seized, and Steed has agreed to forfeit, more than $18 million from bank accounts controlled by Steed, and the government is seeking to forfeit, or alternatively liquidate for restitution, a Greenwich home that Steed is alleged to have purchased with nearly $2.3 million in stolen funds.  It is alleged that another $2 million was sent by Steed to Argentina, where he is a dual citizen, has family ties, and owns a ranch.

Steed was arrested on March 26, 2025.  He is released on a $5 million bond pending sentencing, which is scheduled for December 9.

*In a bidding war, no less, paying $2.525 million on a list price of $2.3; ah, the power of OPM: Other People’s Money

More on Josephine Tey and The Daughter of Time: it should be counted right alongside Atlas Shrugged and Camp of the Saints as a presager of current events

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‘But I thought they were very holy people—the Covenanters, I mean.’

‘You’ve been looking at nineteenth-century pictures of conventicles. The reverent little gathering in the heather listening to the preacher; young rapt faces, and white hair blowing in the winds of God. The Covenanters were the exact equivalent of the I.R.A. in Ireland. A small irreconcilable minority, and as bloodthirsty a crowd as ever disgraced a Christian nation. If you went to church on Sunday instead of to a conventicle, you were liable to wake on Monday and find your barn burned or your horses hamstrung. If you were more open in your disapproval you were shot. The men who shot Archbishop Sharp in his daughter’s presence, in broad daylight on a road in Fife, were the heroes of the movement. “Men of courage and zeal for the cause of God”, according to their admiring followers. They lived safe and swaggering among their Covenanting fans in the West for years. It was a “preacher of the gospel” who shot Bishop Honeyman in an Edinburgh street. And they shot the old parish priest of Carsphairn on his own doorstep.’

‘It does sound like Ireland, doesn’t it,’ Carradine said.

‘They were actually worse than the I.R.A. because there was a fifth column element in it. They were financed from Holland, and their arms came from Holland. There was nothing forlorn about their movement, you know. They expected to take over the Government any day, and rule Scotland. All their preaching was pure sedition. The most violent incitement to crime you could imagine. No modern Government could afford to be so patient with such a menace as the Government of the time were. The Covenanters were continually being offered amnesties.’

‘Well, well. And I thought they were fighting for freedom to worship God their own way.’

‘No one ever stopped them from worshipping God any way they pleased. What they were out to do was to impose their method of church government not only on Scotland but on England, believe it or not. You should read the Covenant some day. Freedom of worship was not to be allowed to anyone according to the Covenanting creed—except the Covenanters, of course.’

UPDATE: Modern day Covenanters respond to the Kirk assassination: