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I have a few problems with the way the Khadafi/Qaddafi/Gaddaffi killing went down, and not just because we’ll never know the correct spelling.
All joking aside, there’s a reason for all the different spellings: the absence of formally recognized standards for translating to English. Because there’s no standard, the […]
If homosexuality is still struggling for acceptance in modern society, it was verboten if not a capital crime in 1957. That was when Frank Kameny was fired from his job at the Army Map Service due to the discovery of an earlier arrest (resulting from entrapment) in a mens […]
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 […]
Celebrated author Jeff Pearlman, whose books include the Roger Clemens retrospective The Rocket That Fell to Earth and The Bad Guys Won, […]
A bonus Troy Night Out will occur this Friday, October 14th in conjunction with the MoHu Arts Festival.
Highlights include a live performance by Ben Karis-Nix in his own space at Design It Together, […]
Albany has cancelled its annual Columbus Day Parade, which began in 1992. From Jorden Carleo-Evangelist:
For the first time in two decades, there will be no Columbus Day parade in the city — a casualty, some organizers said, of dwindling crowds and younger people not as closely […]
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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