One other thing about all this is the naked racism directed at cabdrivers from various TV and radio personalities. It seems that none of them can resist a cheap laugh at the cabbies. I just coomplained to the alt.fan.don-imus newsgroup about his constant remarks about "dotheads", "towelheads" and purported body odor of cabdrivers. One of the reasons I don't watch Letterman anymore is that I was sick and tired of the racist jokes about cabbies in his nightly monologues. My dream of NYC is one in which the cabbies, Pueblano dishwashers, Chinese sweatshop workers, African-American subway workers, et al take to the streets and put the fear of god into all the idiotic Seinfeld fans.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)