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Though the Mafia's power in the U.S. has waned because of criminal prosecutions and competition from crime gangs, the arrests show that the traditional families remain active in large cities.

Mob Sweep Nets 11 in Philadelphia

The Mafia's exploits have long been romanticized in TV and film, and the roster of suspects disclosed in 16 separate indictments offered a colorful array of nicknames that could have been pulled from past episodes of The Sopranos, the popular former HBO series about the life and times of a New Jersey Mob boss.

Feds nab nearly 130 in Mafia crackdown

Then it was indicated to me and my family that it was the Mafia's initiative and to leave it alone.

Roads to the Capitol: Six new members of Congress on their personal journeys

Part of Pink Hill Mafia's role, members said, was to create the social space where that delicate outreach could be made.

To foster connections, gay congressional staffers think Pink Hill Mafia

He's an essentially stock countercultural type -- he likes to discourse on "Monte Hellman, Semina Culture, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, the Mafia's blackmailing of J. Edgar Hoover over erotic secrets (resulting in the bogus amplification of Cold War fear and therefore the whole of our contemporary landscape), Vladimir Mayakovsky and the futurists, Chet Baker," etc., etc., etc. -- and his recurrent cluster headaches and other mental problems make him seem merely pathetic, not heroic.

The Reading Experience

DumbfoundedByIdiocy writes in the comments: A question about bats - if they're always breaking a few a game, why don't MLB ask for the name of the Mafia's bat suppliers?

Texas Rangers 4 St. Louis Cardinals 0 - as it happened!

He's an essentially stock countercultural type -- he likes to discourse on "Monte Hellman, Semina Culture, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, the Mafia's blackmailing of J. Edgar Hoover over erotic secrets (resulting in the bogus amplification of Cold War fear and therefore the whole of our contemporary landscape), Vladimir Mayakovsky and the futurists, Chet Baker," etc., etc., etc. -- and his recurrent cluster headaches and other mental problems make him seem merely pathetic, not heroic.

Postmodernism

He's an essentially stock countercultural type -- he likes to discourse on "Monte Hellman, Semina Culture, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, the Mafia's blackmailing of J. Edgar Hoover over erotic secrets (resulting in the bogus amplification of Cold War fear and therefore the whole of our contemporary landscape), Vladimir Mayakovsky and the futurists, Chet Baker," etc., etc., etc. -- and his recurrent cluster headaches and other mental problems make him seem merely pathetic, not heroic.

Detecting a Wrongness

He's an essentially stock countercultural type -- he likes to discourse on "Monte Hellman, Semina Culture, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, the Mafia's blackmailing of J. Edgar Hoover over erotic secrets (resulting in the bogus amplification of Cold War fear and therefore the whole of our contemporary landscape), Vladimir Mayakovsky and the futurists, Chet Baker," etc., etc., etc. -- and his recurrent cluster headaches and other mental problems make him seem merely pathetic, not heroic.

April 2010

Part of Pink Hill Mafia's role, members said, was to create the social space where that delicate outreach could be made.

'Pink Hill Mafia' injects color into Capitol Hill's dull listserv culture