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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 ……

Gwen Berry finished in third place at the Olympic trials in her sport, the hammer throw. This little bit of news wouldn’t matter to most people, except for those who follow track and field sports. For example, here’s what the hammer throw looks like. Berry was at one point the national record-holder in the sport.…

So there’s been a lot of discussion regarding CRT and why it shouldn’t be taught in school. I say, what’s the big deal? Certainly kids should know all about cathode ray tubes, I mean, they were part of the early construction of television, and for decades the cathode ray tube was the primary manner for…

I haven’t written very much about Madison Cawthorn, one of the assemblage of Republican representatives who have manure for brains. But I do know a few things about Cawthorn. He lied about his college background, and he just praised an American war enemy in a television interview. Granted, the interview was on Newsmax, a broadcast…

Background. Every so often, someone posts this image and asks their friends to share it, as a patriotic reminder of those who served in Vietnam. Of course, it’s a little hard to believe this is a Vietnam war photo, when the three “soldiers” on the far right are Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. (in blackface)…