Coffey pot calls kettle Coffey … or, obstructionists still say the darndest things.

There’s a city council meeting tonight, and many of you have asked when I intend to return to the peanut gallery. It’s a hard question to answer, primarily because my therapist continues to insist that I focus on positives, and try to exclude depressing spectacles from my weekly diet of events. I reminded her that I've not watched a single episode of the Sopranos -- ever!

Granted, the current council aggregation is far less of a furrow on the brow of educated New Albanians than was the case during the previous four years, but there’s still the 3rd district’s isolated rogue CM Steve Price to view … and I may be the exception to the rule that folks can’t take their eyes off train wrecks. I can, and have been.

With luck, once we’re finished in Iraq, we can bring representative democracy to the vicinity of the third. I’ll be the first in line to pull that particular statue down.

And then, of course, there’s still Dan Coffey for tragic-comic relief.

The following quote, which specifically refers to a recently minted Main Street development project that the 1st district councilman has taken a conspicuous (and accordingly highly suspicious) interest in touting, comes from the same inveterate west-ending Luddite who once publicly praised Birdseye, Indiana as the type of locale that could serve as a model for New Albany:

“We keep playing around and nobody is going to come to this town,” Coffey said.

Wow … it just goes to show that in spite of the many good things happening here, New Albany remains an Irony Free Zone. Verily, having Dan Coffey on the Redevelopment Commission is like having me on the board of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Great if you’re a diehard surrealist. Otherwise, those dogs won’t hunt.

The quote’s from the Tribune: New Albany City Councilman won’t go for several expansions to TIF districts, and here’s what once had Cappuccino looking for investment opportunities to the West: Mass exodus to Birdseye; little people evacuate New Albany in search of cleanliness, lower educational standards.