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Andrea Peyser

A born and raised New Yorker, award-winning columnist Andrea Peyser started her career at the Albany Associated Press bureau, did one lost year in Charleston, W.Va., before working for CNN and the Tampa Tribune. She landed at the Post in 1989 and was named columnist in 1993. Her columns have won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Newswomen's Club of New York and the New York Associated Press, which named her columnist of the year for 2005. A graduate of the State University of New York, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

  • Gore goes @#$% nuts!

    Can it be ? Has the guru of global warming, the Bozo of ozone and pooh-bah of the probably-not- so-endangered polar bear, gone completely off his bleeping rocker? I'm talking about Al Gore, the former vice...  

    August 11, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Yes! This hero jurist really 'rocks'

    Judge Rock Star took the Manhattan bench, fully loaded, with a long, black robe on his body and justice on his mind. And the judge, known as Gregory Carro, let punk ex-Police Officer Kenneth Moreno have it squarely...  

    August 09, 2011 12:00 AM
  • End of the Korean grocery

    Not to worry. We'll always have Starbucks. Dunkin' Donuts, Rite Aid and T.G.I. Friday's, too. On a pleasant Friday on Brooklyn's Court Street, it felt as if the Grim Reaper had swooped in for the kill. All day,...  

    August 08, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Shameless NFL gives thugs a pass

    Call it the National Forgiveness League. Gun-toting, newly minted Jet wide receiver Plaxico Burress couldn't get his pic ture in the paper two years ago without handcuffs. Now, all is forgiven. Heck, it's as if...  

    August 04, 2011 12:00 AM
  • The cross they just can't bear

    These atheists can go straight to hell. Ground Zero's most defiant survivor does not look like much at first glance. From amid the wreckage of the World Trade Center emerged two steel beams, 17 feet tall, soldered...  

    August 01, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Glammed-up DSK accuser goes public as race gets drawn into case

    Who's that lady? Nafissatou Diallo was ushered into Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center yesterday aboard patent-leather pumps that made the 5-foot-10 former hotel maid and current sex accuser tower over the two...  

    July 29, 2011 12:00 AM
  • B'klyn's inferiority complex holds Tru

    Brooklyn is for losers. Manhattan is for self- loathing manic-depres sives. And loads of New Yorkers wouldn't have it any other way. A war has ignited once again between the city's two premier addresses -- or, if...  

    July 28, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Mike's sneaky 'getaway'

    Let them eat sugar-free gourmet vegan cake topped with 24-karat gold leaf. We knew Mayor Bloomberg was stinking rich, frequently clueless and often in Bermuda. But the mayor, whose disastrous third term brought us...  

    July 25, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Harry Potter scribe casts a sexist spell

    I'll miss Harry Potter as I'll miss liver-flavored jelly beans. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the final chapter of the wildly successful wizardly franchise, is smashing box-office records in its...  

    July 21, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Gay-nay marriage clerks say: 'I don't!'

    Call them New York's Re fuseniks. Rosemary Centi has per formed marriage ceremo nies in upstate Guil derland for the past 10 years, hitching hundreds of satisfied men and women. For good, she hopes. This...  

    July 18, 2011 12:00 AM
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    A liberal dose of venom spit at this woman

    Steel yourselves, ladies. It's open season on the women lefties love to hurt. Michele Bachmann is a tax lawyer. She ran for, and won, a seat in Congress. She is also a wife and mother of five who took in 23 foster...  

    July 14, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Casey the party monster

    Party at Casey's! Casey Anthony sa-shayed into the courtroom yesterday tarted up like a Florida sorority girl looking for a quick-and-dirty hookup. On what she clearly believed was Freedom Day -- hide the...  

    July 08, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Filthy mom shopping around for pay dirt

    Her kid is dead. Her parents hate her guts. Any reasonable American thinks she's a murdering monster. But Casey Anthony wouldn't trade places with anyone. Representatives of the world's media have parachuted in...  

    July 07, 2011 12:00 AM
  • The glove fits - this head case becomes new O.J.

    ORLANDO, Fla. -- O.J. Simpson is alive and free and living in the body of a 25-year-old sociopath named Casey Anthony. Yesterday, as the world wept, 12 sun-scorched jurors in this burg a stone's throw from Disney...  

    July 06, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Go ahead and pledge allegiance

    Patriotism isn't dead. It's on life support -- and may never wake up. Broadcasting the US Open golf tournament last month, NBC honchos made the bonehead decision to censor the words "under God" -- twice -- as...  

    July 04, 2011 12:00 AM
  • The filthy froggy is still a wart hog

    So Dominique Strauss-Kahn is probably not a maid-mangling sex fiend. Don't pop the French bubbly just yet. The lowlife frog was revealed yesterday as something twisted. This is a man who enjoyed a glamorous doormat...  

    July 02, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Birdbrains get no silly goose truce

    Call it the Great Goose War -- Part II. Goose-rights wackos are squawking mad, and they're not taking it this time. From Brooklyn to Queens and points beyond, bird fans with too much free time on their hands are...  

    June 30, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Union push sinking the Boathouse

    Accessible by gondola, rowboat, swan-back or foot, Central Park's famed Boat house has graced this city like a precious jewel for more than a century, the romantic scene of 100,000 marriage proposals and one monumental...  

    June 27, 2011 12:00 AM
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    NY parents putting the $ in $chool

    Cat food is looking mighty tasty about now. The news hit the city's overtaxed, overstressed and increasingly broke and despondent middle-class parents like a karate chop to the gut. Come September, for the first...  

    June 23, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Gay nuptials - this time, it's personal

    I give in. To my dear niece and her lovely wife -- mazel tov. On the day of her big, fat gay wedding, the bride wore a flowing, white dress. The other bride walked down the aisle in a white tuxedo. More...  

    June 20, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Even friends won't touch this ding-dong

    Anthony Weiner exited the political universe the same way he entered Planet Earth -- naked in his shame. And utterly alone. Weiner's pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, steered clear of him in his hour of need. There were...  

    June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
  • This boob is making the breast of a bad situation

    Y'all be nice. Ginger Lee walked into the Friars Club in Midtown yesterday, 110 pounds of staunch, Southern feminist, in a shirt so tight her boobs had nowhere to go but up. She spoke in a sexy drawl enhanced by...  

    June 16, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Disrespected diaper dads mum no more

    Pass the Similac. Adam Nowak of Astoria, Queens, knows what it's like to suffer discrimina tion. Not because of his religion or the color of his skin. Because he's a dude. Last year, Nowak, 40, was drummed out of a...  

    June 13, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Having a kid is not one of the 12 steps

    Anthony Weiner is boning up quickly. Hide the kids and preg nant women. Now that his wife, Huma Abedin, is in the family way, within a few cynical days, Weiner will hit rock bottom. Like many a man caught with his...  

    June 09, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Marriage headed for a crotch-photo finish

    She is so out of here. On the day Anthony Weiner needed his wife the most, she vanished -- poof! -- like his harem of feisty Twitter chippies during a power outage. The gorgeous and furious Internet cuckold...  

    June 07, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Sleazy Weiner's a twisted triplet

    The only thing separating Anthony Weiner from Brett Favre is a pair of gray "Jockey Pouch" men's under-drawers. And the only thing dividing La Weiner from shirtless ex-Rep. Christopher Lee is 20 pounds and a dumb...  

    June 06, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Done in by the social network

    Listen up. The verbose and hyperactive Anthony Weiner is not going to say this again. I did not have sext with that woman. Of course, whether Weiner had virtual flirtations, or didn't, with any sentient female...  

    June 02, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Sleazy Geezer Society meeting now in session

    Hide the maids! Move over, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and make space in that plush townhouse for your evil twin and alleged co-codger in crime, Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar. If Strauss-Kahn is the beloved DSK back home in...  

    June 01, 2011 12:00 AM
  • It's open season for predators in uniform

    There is no justice for drunk women. A message to vulner able ladies throughout New York City: Whatever you do, do not call the cops. It's open season on dames. And the aggressor and tormentor of the weak and...  

    May 27, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Sexist DSK had France in his pants

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn did not act alone. Throughout France, hands are as dirty as those of a chambermaid tasked with scrubbing a $3,000 Sofitel suite. The upstairs-downstairs saga of the Big Shot who allegedly...  

    May 26, 2011 12:00 AM

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    Day in Photos: Aug. 11, 2011
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    Bar Refaeli
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