Anyway, the "50 Most" feature is very well-written and humorous, if perhaps overboard in its mean-spiritedness in a post-9/11 New York. But the dream that somehow that tragic event would spawn a more humane and sympathetic city population has long since vanquished.

Here are a few highlights from the piece.

No. 50 Naomi Campbell, Model
New York Press says: "The quintessential don’t-you-know-who-I-am celebrity has made headlines for her Mansonesque behavior toward bellhops, assistants and other people with real jobs."
PK.com says: I'd still fuck her.

No. 44 Nas and Jay-Z, Rappers
New York Press says: "These endlessly feuding rappers should be merged to form one, giant, illiterate organism called Notorious S.U.C.K."
PK.com says: Irony alert: If these rich, old-enough-to-know-better rappers are "keeping it real," then their real lives are real pathetic.

No. 40 Carson Daly, Television Host
New York Press says: "It’s one thing to be cagey and self-deprecating; it’s another to embrace your complete vapidity."
PK.com says: Who actually considers this guy a New Yorker anyway? I thought he was just a rental.

No. 34 Tina Brown, Former Editor
New York Press says: "The shrill Brit with the jiggly arms who systematically massacred the reputations of two of America’s most storied print institutions..."
PK.com says: I had lunch with a former magazine editor who told me that after he'd lunched with Brown, he politely waited for her to visit the women's room before they departed. When she came out, she blew right by him without saying goodbye.

No. 32 Brian Williams, Anchorman
New York Press says: "On the Conan O’Brien Show, ended a long story about buying a Christmas tree with a punch-line in which he was mistaken for a member of the working class."
PK.com says: If being a bad talk-show guest was reason to be loathed, former G 'n' R guitarist Slash's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last week would have him up there with Osama.

No. 22 Bernard Kerik, Former NYPD Top Dog
New York Press says: "Prior to his distinguished reign as the police commissioner, was the head of a state corrections department that for years was the city’s most dependable source of scandal and bureaucratic skullduggery."
PK.com says: Cops take advantage of their political positioning? You don't say. The whole notion of PBA cards and sense of privilege above the law make me sick.

No. 15 George Steinbrenner, Owner, New York Yankees
New York Press says: "Has forever linked the Yankee name to his infantile persecution complexes, and the fact that he wins makes it worse, not better."
PK.com says: In his 30 years, his profitable and successful Yanks have won six World Series and nine AL pennants. Aside from that dipshit David Wells, the Yanks' players (whites, blacks, Latinos) have more class than the entire NBA.

No. 4 Ann Coulter, Pundit
New York Press says: "A horse-faced Tri-Delt who spends her days hurling genocidal threats at foreigners and liberals."
PK.com says: Told a Syracuse University audience in March that "the next terrorist attack will be done by an Arab or Muslim man." Makes sense to me. A lot of her stuff is over the top, but no more illogical than screening elderly, white females and young, Arab males with the same scrutiny at airports.