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Banks came out big winners of Fed bailout while Congress and citizens were kept in the dark about their money

By On November 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Bloomberg has released details of the Fed’s bailout of major banking institutions during the financial cirsis of 2008, and the results are astounding. $1.2 trillion was doled out to those deemed “too big to […]

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Newt Gingrich, the idiot’s intellectual

By On November 22, 2011 · 2 Comments

Let’s talk about Newt Gingrich, the alleged intellectual who has inconceivably risen towards to top of the field for the GOP nomination in 2012, despite being about twenty years past his expiration date for relevance and integrity.

Gingrich has been positioned as a “thinking man’s candidate” amidst a field consisting of bigots, caricatures, and charlatans […]

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Reflections on tonight’s GOP debate

By On October 18, 2011 · 3 Comments

There’s one bus stop in downtown Troy which, like so many stops in so many cities throughout the nation, is one that you avoid. The reason being is that for whatever unknown reason, the most morally bankrupt, drugged-out individuals congregate there. It is a place where if you’re, say, reading a book, you’ll get harassed […]

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The Panacea that failed: Michael Century on art, technology, and EMPAC

By On October 12, 2011 · 4 Comments

I usually spend my lunch eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and trying, in vain, to get some writing done. It almost always fails. I’m never in the right mindset for it, so I end up frstruated and I return to my office in an even more miserable state […]

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All my Nazi friends are coming over tonight: Hank Williams, Jr. not a fan of Obama playing golf

By On October 4, 2011 · 4 Comments

Hank Williams, Jr. has a message for people who want to play golf with John Boehner: YOU’RE HITLER!

(speaking on John Boehner playing golf with Obama, starting at 1:10)

Gretchen Carlson: “You mean when John Boehner played golf with President Obama?”
Hank Jr: “OHHHHHHHHHHH YEAH! And Biden, and [Ohio Governor John] Kasich…yeah. Uh-huh. […]

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Times Union’s Bills fans/Gish controversy reveals problems deeper than nasty online comments

By On September 30, 2011 · 8 Comments

Earlier today on his Keyboard Krumbs blog, Rob Madeo tells the story of a frivolous sports opinion piece that has exploded in controversy due to internet reaction and the harassment and threats its author received.

Before the Buffalo Bills’ big test against the New […]

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The new Amazon Kindle is only $79, but they’ll annoy you for free

By On September 29, 2011 · 3 Comments

The new Amazon Kindle is only $79, and to promote it they have produced the most irritating commercial in history.

“Er doyyyyyeeee, heyyyyy happy pants! Cheery cheery cheeky sarcastic cheery!”

Awful. Simply awful.

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Kevin Marshall’s departure makes the print edition of the Times Union

By On September 25, 2011 · 20 Comments

The Times Union saw fit to feature my departure today in its print edition:

(scan courtesy my friend Dennis B.)

Like I said, it was amicable and stuff like this shows it. So long and thanks for all the fish.

…wait a minute, NO MENTION OF KEVIN MARSHALL […]

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