Everybody in New York is disgusted with the state Senate, including many people who were only dimly aware we had such an organization until the recent unpleasantness. But weeks of chaos, betrayal and counter-betrayal, the spotlighting of the large number of state senators with previous or current indictments and the overall sense that the ship of state is being driven by a bunch of egomaniac nutballs has taken its toll.

Now the question is whether Mayor Michael Bloomberg should agree to negotiate changes in his school control bill at the 11th hour. (Actually, the final gong rang a long time ago, but like everything else in Albany, the clock has been stopped.)

The mayor has enough yes votes to pass the bill, but the Democratic leadership won’t let it come up for a vote unless they can attach some new squiggles. As of last report, they include $1.6 million to train parents to become more involved in school decision-making, a council to promote arts education and another commission on school safety.

Translation: there are veteran senators who are upset because art and music keep getting cut from the curriculum when budgets are tight. At least one is worried about the high degree of police presence in some schools. Parents’ frustration with their lack of input in some school matters has been a complaint for some time. When in doubt, create a commission. Or appropriate a couple of million for a vague training program.

If this was, say, May, the senators would be completely within their rights to put those items up for discussion.

But having brought Albany to a complete standstill, jeopardized local governments’ ability to pay their bills and made the state a national laughingstock, the senators have really forfeited their right to tinker. (The city lost more than $60 million in revenue from the delay in getting a long-anticipated bump in the sales tax. That could have paid for a heck of a lot of parental training.)

So Bloomberg is completely within his rights to dig in his heels. But here’s a personal confession – I’m tired of this. The city is tired of this. The handful of state senators who are actually trying to do the right thing are so tired they’re ready to drop. And Bloomberg’s intransigence is a reminder that this mayor, who has done so much good, is sounding a little intransigent at a time when he’s going for a third term – something that’s proved a disaster for worthy public servants in the past.

It would ease a lot of people’s minds if he’d just give in a little and make the dumb deal so we can put all thoughts of state senators out of our minds for the summer.

There’s a veritable food harvest on the blog front. Roseanne Colletti has a look at the New York coffee wars, Ed Levine has found a gem in a Greek diner and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer says the city needs an aggressive food policy that would include changes in zoning rules to encourage the creation of rooftop gardens and greenhouses in Manhattan.