Live blogging tonight’s live boxing event, which will be broadcast on ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights, over at the Mixed Marshall Arts blog.
Live blogging tonight’s live boxing event, which will be broadcast on ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights, over at the Mixed Marshall Arts blog.
Unless you’re a dead person, you’ve seen “The Avengers” and you saw at least the first “post-credits” scene that revealed the villain for a future installment in the film franchise: Thanos.
If you cheered like the people in the theater I went to did, then you should go to the Woodstock Day School Comic Convention this Sunday and shake the hand of the man who created him: Jim Starlin.
Also at this event:
Should be a Hell of a time. It’s this Sunday, May 20th, from 12-5pm, and admission is only $5. Well worth it, and proceeds go to the Woodstock Day School.
Someone passed this along to me anonymously right before I left work. Just got around to reading and…wow.
From The Albany Newspaper Guild’s response to Kristi Gustafson-Barlette’s anti-union comments on her Facebook:
“I find unions protect the weak, and don’t produce viable results. People don’t DESERVE raises, they earn them,” Kristi wrote in response to a reader. She went on to add: “If you believe you should earn more, and your company doesn’t give it to you, then leave — find another job.”
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And she is dead wrong about unions, in general and the Guild specifically. Ironically, I remember when Kristi was an editorial assistant and came to me, upset because a member of management had said if she wanted to be a reporter, she should leave, get experience elsewhere and then apply to come back. I told her that two of her colleagues, Bob Gardinier and Dennis Yusko, had been told the same thing. They perserved and became reporters. I advised her to do the same. She did and succeeded.
As someone who has benefitted from being a member of the Guild and seen colleagues laid off, positions left unfilled after departures, and no raises in over five years, you’d think she’d know better.
I didn’t see the comment. I just hope, for her sake, she at least had the common sense to write that on her personal account rather than her work account.
Debate about minimum wage in New York State has been renewed and it’s likely to be a hot button issue in the next legislative session.
Kristi Barlette, the Times Union’s Features Editor, weekly columnist, and blogger of important topics like such as pictures of anonymous butts on the subway and questionairre memes, tweeted her thoughts on the matter this morning:
Included Mike Goodwin's response because it was hilarious.
Naturally, this purely anecdotal, out-of-context dismissal of the opposition to her views rubbed more than a few people the wrong way… Read more »
Time has (not) picked its 2011 Person of the Year: “The Protestor.” This marks the 85th time the magazine has published the annual special, beginning in 1927 with famed aviator Charles Lindberg.
Formerly known as “Man of the Year” until it was changed in 1999, Time has always struggled with the relevance and integrity of the distinction. The magazine has from the outset sought to grant the title to the individual who has “for better or for worse …done the most to influence the events of the year.” From the beginning, though, the award was a bit of a farce. Time’s editors gave the distinction to Lindberg in 1927 specifically because it had been roundly chastised for omitting him from their cover after his famed Trans-Atlantic voyage in May of that year. The award, then, was created to make up for that embarrassment and engender some good will with its readership and the mainstream American public.
Since that time, the award has alternated between global legitimacy and outright pandering. In 1950 it gave it to “The American Fighting-Man,” an empty jingoistic gesture that rang as cynically insincere to anybody with a triple digit IQ. They repeated the sentiment in 2003, this time riding the still cresting wave of post-9/11 patriotism. Except this time, it was “The American Soldier,” both to include both genders of and not sound like the title of a song played on a phonograph.
This year, it once again rode the sentiment of a fickle and easily distracted public and chose “The Protestor,” which encompasses the stateside “Occupy ______” protests, the Arab Spring, and others throughout the world that have made a significant impact on global events and domestic policy for the foreseeable future.
You might be wondering what, exactly, is up my craw with this pick. The problem I have with it is two-fold. Read more »
Don’t get me wrong. I believe a candidate’s faith is very important and should be one of the criteria people use to decide who gets their vote. I just don’t believe it should matter which faith is in play.
Faith is not just about believing in God or a higher power, but in those select few elected by the people to act on our behalf in the governing of this country, faith is about character.
We must remember, as much as we use the term democracy to describe our system of government, it’s actually a republic. The people don’t make decisions on how they are governed. We elect others to do that for us. In doing so, it is in our best interests to do what we can to ensure that those officeholders are individuals of strong character.
I’m not surprised that someone can be as childishly naive and closed-minded in regard to faith or lack thereof as a qualification to obtain an elected position. I am, however, a bit aghast that a website like the Knick Ledger, which seeks to be seen as a legitimate news/media outlet in this area, would reproduce it. Read more »
Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy, not that this cat gives a shit.
I’m truly and sincerely putting forth an honest effort to spend more time reading. But life, or at least 21st Century post-print life, is wrought with distractions that are pleasing at the time but unbearably frustrating after the fact.
Drastic times call for drastic measures. I’m turning this computer off and it’s not coming back on until Monday. At least, that’s the idea. Don’t hold me to it, but don’t be surprised either to see me maintain a healthy radio silence the next few days.
Like so many other things that would make this world a better place, this isn’t real. If it was, though? I’d definitely pay for it.
The “Fatality” at the end is perfect.
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