Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The 10 Worst Brooklynites of All Time

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8. Bobby Fischer

You know, we really respect this Erasmus dropout as a chess player, even as a source of American pride during the Cold War—and it all started in a Brooklyn candy store, from which Fisher got his first chess set at the age of six. But, you know, then there's all that post-champion shit, when he became this Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic, psychopathic creep. That's no good.

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