So, yes, blame the government.
And yes, I blame Rhode Island for this.
Leave aside the question of whether this country is on the march to socialism (conservatives say yes, and blame the Democrats).
Sympathy for his family in Cardiff, grieving for their son's death and probably blaming themselves, yes, and for his bewildered friends.
Margaret Thatcher's slashing of arts subsidy in the 1980s (yes, we can blame her) was a first blow, together with a global financial crisis and a diminution in corporate giving.
In what has sadly become an all-too familiar pattern of blaming the scientists (yes -- this mess we've gotten ourselves into is all the fault of the scientists!), Schrager levels a number of cheap shots against climate researchers.
"American Idol" has also given us an Oscar winner, a new generation of divas, the Kardashian family franchise -- yes, we can blame thank "Idol" for them -- and the ability to call a performance "a little pitchy".
And if our freedoms are eroded, if we continue to slip away from democracy and move toward being an authoritarian government, the president will be to blame, yes, but so will the Republican lawmakers who allowed the president to insult, demean and denigrate the country he is supposed to be leading.
Dolan knows he would get bashed, for certain, but he can take heart in an ongoing Asbury Park Press on-line poll in which 55percentt of respondents blame YES for the impasse, with only 40percentt blaming Cablevision.
