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This is important. Whatever you can offer to help will be tremendously appreciated. Like most animal shelters and humane societies, Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando opens up its heart and its facilities to rescue abandoned and hoarded animals, and to hopefully find them new forever homes. Last Wednesday evening, however, tragedy struck the Pet Alliance.…

In the final days of the Trump Administration, the former guy installed many of his loyalists onto various boards and positions, allowing them to continue their Trumpian loyalty. One of those loyalists was Kellyanne Conway, who was appointed to the Board of Visitors for the Air Force Academy. Yesterday, President Biden announced that 18 Trump…

You would think that the Capital District was some sort of backwoods hick region, the way the populace gets so excited about the arrival of a chain store in the area. A few years ago, someone installed a Trader Joe’s on Wolf Road and people lost their shit. Then after that, we got a Sonic…

Between 2009 and 2017, I blogged for the Albany Times Union. They had a very strict policy with regard to blog comments and blog commenters. All blog comments had to be approved, whether we agreed with the comments or didn’t agree with the comments. The only times blog comments could be rejected was if they…

The time has come.The time has come.The time is now.Just go.Go.GO!I don’t care how.You can go by foot.You can go by cow.Andrew M. Cuomo, will you please go now!You can go on your hot rod.Try not to be phony.Andrew M. Cuomo.Please, no more baloney.I don’t care.You can go by bike.You can go on the Tappan…

First of all, if I’m writing a blog post about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA-14), it isn’t because she introduced some outstanding, groundbreaking, bipartisan legislation in Congress. Nah, she’s never done that. What she HAS done is essentially user her time in office to glorify her position in life. She’s tried to pick fights with…

I’m not sure if we’re dealing with a mental health breakdown in this country, or if there are people who bottle up their huite privilege to attack others who are not huite, then try to apologize for their actions, then go completely nuclear when their apologies are not immediately accepted. Take, for example, this instance…

I have to tell this story before I tell the one referenced in today’s headline. Back in 2008 or so, I used to reside on a sports message board known as Our Sports Central. It was a site for minor league sports aficionados, and I hung out in the minor league basketball portal, where we…

Last week, in anticipation of an upcoming photo shoot, I ordered a few rolls of expired Kodak Gold 200 Instamatic film, with the plan to respool the film and shoot it in another camera. On Monday, I received an e-mail that the film had arrived at my doorstep. By the time I got home ……