October 2008 Archives

Times Union writer Casey Seiler makes a terrible case when he's not 'reporting'.

Attempting to make some sort of case for the average Joe, he digresses into some hipster reference about a movie made in 1932, as if we all were to know it. This alone should be grounds for reader cessation, but the pull is a local Congressional race.

For over two million dollars we get commercials which keep Mr. Seiler up at night. In my estimation there wasn't a single one that stood out as anything not trite, banal or just lame (the Treadwell tobacco hit being the most notable). I'm wondering what code the term 'affinity' politics relays to his peers in diverging first into Obama and than into Palin. But hey, I don'y get read by thousands and have to endure comments if I did . . .

We even have a commercial;

The CapCon is reporting that Joseph Sullivan is asking people to write him in in NY's 21st Congressional race.

I'll extend the same offering to the good people in the 20th. I'll even pay for the FOIA request to see how many we tally . . . .

According to this prescient article a while back.

Krugman just won the Nobel Prize as Anderson predicted.

H/T FT