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New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?

Friday, February 05, 2010

"Reporting," elections, Twitter, equal time, slippery slopes and whatever else.

There's no time this morning to recount the Twitter exchanges yesterday, other than to say that (depending on one's perspective) com...

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Pride be damned: Arm the Aw-Dit, and full steam ahead.

Unintentional satire, Volume 46: R.O.C.K. warns against "indecent" Stupor Bowl ads.

I totally agree. Those vile, repulsive Budweiser ads must go! Meanwhile, those of us not hidebound by hormonally mutant Wickensianism will b...

Today's Tribune column: "Starving for education."

I felt your pain, and I came up with a solution. All I needed was a pitchman. BAYLOR: Starving for education Are you fed up with words you d...

Pride: Kiss your Coffey good morning, and your Aw-Dit goodbye.

Daniel Suddeath revealed the punch line on Twitter two days ago, and I've been doing the grand guffaw ever since. The Messer for Mayor c...

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Or you might visit the Creation Museum instead. It's creative in its own way.

Thanks to K for this, even though I forgot to post it until now. Creative Cities Summit in Lexington April 7-9 The Creative Cities Summit ...

Indiana House hypocrisy: No smoking = Workplace safety. Unless you work in a bar, club, casino ...

... then, your health really isn't that important, after all. It's all about protecting workers, unless you have the misfortune of w...

Say it ain't so, Todor Dimitrov.

New Albany's "Most Likely to Have Been Created by Soviet Bloc Architects from Bulgaria" public building has suffered a wardrob...

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Tonight: Floyd County Preservation Group at the Ritter House.

Submitted. Don't forget today's First Tuesday networking gala at Steinert's, and the Style Show at Studio's/Parthenon afterw...

Monday, February 01, 2010

Council Part Two: Price votes for an abatement, and is excommunicated by Grover Norquist.

Late note: Here's the Tribune coverage. Once again, current council president Gonder has gone to a by-the-numbers interpretation of the ...

Council Part One: “I don’t want to be spoon fed information,” says Coffey, who promptly chokes on it.

Tonight, someone in the IT section at the City-County Building gave the wheel of Internet access a mighty spin and … no Internet connection....

No sugar tonight.

Absent an Internet connection, there'll be no live council blogging tonight. Some day I'll understand why some nights it works and o...

Red-carpet gala gives way to institutional lashings as council prepares to meet.

The fact that tonight's city council agenda includes no mention of Sewer Wars, Volume 324 does not preclude the likelihood that grandst...

Sunday, January 31, 2010

They'll be too busy popping Bud Light tops to listen, anyway.

My guess is that the Tribune's reporter-turned-columnist Daniel Suddeath doesn't share my views on abortion, which are stridently pr...

Saturday, January 30, 2010

What's not to love and cherish about satire, irreverence and outright blasphemy?

I've been cleaning "favorites" and discarding old, unused and broken links. It's been a while since I'd visited the hu...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Coffey suckles at cash cow's teat as crowd adjourns for a soda and some popcorn.

In fairness, the 1st district's Dan "Copperhead Lift Station" Coffey vowed to return to his outspoken (badly spoken) ways once...

Dreck from the Prof.

This quote should be elevated to the marquee of Freedom to Screech , where it would be a shining beacon of hope to the faux professor's...

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Financial analysis agency sez: "New Albany City Council should raise sewer rates 70 percent."

Today's breaking story, as revealed by the reporter on Twitter: Report: New Albany City Council should raise sewer rates 70 percent , by...

Today's Tribune column: "The Faux in all of us," plus a bonus prayer by the Bookseller.

It's always a lovely day when the two most prominent local targets for derision by the thesaurus-less mob both get mug shots in the news...

Selfishness as inverted erotic Ayn Rand weird-out.

The best anti-poverty program around is a world class education. --Barack Obama, in his 2010 State of the Union address. According to Rep. E...

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