The AV Daily Christmas Special
It’s the Thursday before Christmas. Let’s watch TV. Here’s Mitt Romney the moment he lost the 2012 election. To quote Peggy Noonan, “savor“. I Ken Lee if living is without you. This trailer is...
View ArticleTarget and Chip-and-PIN
On Friday, my wife and I canceled two debit cards and two credit cards, all four linked to two accounts which may have been compromised thanks to a point-of-sale hack that took place at all Target...
View ArticleShorter Everything
1. Dennis Gabryszak is a creep who is accused of doing creepy things to at least 7 women, who have the courage to come forward and publicly air the ways in which this schmuck humiliated them. Gabryszak...
View ArticleSherlock S3 Delay on WNED
WNY and Torontonian fans of Sherlock, the BBC’s contemporary take on the famous detective starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, might want to give WNED a call. Sherlock’s third season is...
View ArticlePower 250? Thank You!
According to Buffalo Business First, I am the 196th most influential person in western New York. I broke the top 200, and – most importantly – came out ahead of the baby polar bears. Thanks to the...
View Article#Sloppery
1. The problems with the Sochi Olympics are myriad and sundry, but most of the mockery has been centered on the general shoddiness and unpreparedness of it all. Not to mention safety concerns. What...
View Article74 Years Later
Apropos of nothing, here is a picture I found of Nazi-occupied Colmar, in France’s Alsace-Lorraine region. It had been a province of Imperial Germany from 1871 until 1918, and Hitler re-took it in 1940...
View ArticleFriday Things
1. If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel. Just keep scrolling to the right. 2. I think this is – hands down – the coolest building in Buffalo. I stumbled upon it Thursday morning – every highway into town...
View ArticleReversion
Two things for your Friday reading: The South Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be 1. 8 interesting factoids about the American South and Southwest, which reveal how stubbornly poor it is, and how people...
View ArticleGood Riddance, Fred Phelps
A busy week with late nights, so posting has been regrettably light. So, with the weekend approaching, I leave you with these thoughts: 1. While Mark Croce may have a right to charge up to $75 for a...
View ArticleA Farewell to Mr. Burke
The timing was somewhat tragically apropos. On Saturday, my best friend from middle school and college called to tell us that his dad had died. When we got the call, we had just reached the 6th floor...
View ArticleThe Oligarchy of Complacency
We pat ourselves on our collective civic backs for our social, economic, and political “one step forward, two steps back” way of life. We – all of us – swallow and regurgitate a party line about the...
View ArticleEverything from the Outer Harbor to #BringBackOurGirls
Remember last year, when I began a semi-weekly excoriation of Donn Esmonde and posted things about the Clarence schools budget crisis/vote? I’m sparing you the ugly details this year because I’m...
View ArticleJune 6, 1944: Souviens-Toi
70 years ago today, thousands of Allied men crossed the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy to help defeat European fascism. Anyone with a passing general knowledge of history knows...
View ArticleLord, Try to Read Between The Lines
It’s a busy time, mostly thanks to the last couple of weeks of the school year, so this’ll have to do. 1. Sometimes, when an upstate politician spits hatred at “downstate”, it’s nothing more than a...
View ArticleThursday Comic Relief
Maybe weather forecasts should always be like this. Jeremy Paxman does the weather on UK nightly program, Newsnight. Kathy Weppner poses with her campaign staff: OK Go with incredible optical...
View ArticleGood Government
1. The Supreme Court rendered a decision Monday affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate coal plant emissions under the Clean Air Act. Tightened emissions rules will reduce...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi – Buffalo
Driving home from work yesterday, I saw a plane on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport that looked to be significantly larger than the 737s, A320s, Embraer 190s, and Dash-8s that I...
View ArticleWhat I’m Reading Now
Hey, it’s summertime in Buffalo, where both irony and cynicism are dead. So, I have nothing to tell you except to point you in the direction of things I’ve been reading lately: 1. Kyiv Post:...
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