In an election year where Americans are analyzed in terms of demographics (black or white, young or old, “educated” or “uneducated”), with candidates choosing which ones “matter,” depersonalization seems to be the spirit of the times. In Myanmar, the government is pretending that hundreds of thousands of its cyclone-hit people are not really there, […]

U.S. Representative Peter King of Long Island is pushing a new meme: Native Americans in Upstate New York are in cahoots with radical Islamic terrorists and are using untaxed smuggled cigarettes to fund their plots. As reported in the Buffalo News, the evidence for this conclusion from King’s House H#^$&*#land Security Committee “study” […]

David Paterson was in Syracuse today for his first official visit as guv. (If you didn’t hear him on WSYR, they’re re-running it at 7 p.m.)
I’m getting the sense that Paterson has a much better public relations staff than Spitzer ever did. Maybe he studied at the Schumer School of Press Releasing, but […]

Very briefly: the latest Quinnipiac poll on Paterson, Spitzer, congestion pricing, the 2010 governor’s field… Paterson holding his own. Spitzer still firmly in doghouse of public opinion. NYC residents love Bloomberg, Upstaters couldn’t care less.
P.S. Did you know? The only thing you need to pass your New York State blogger’s license […]

Be prepared for more nasty Barclay/Aubertine style ads.

Suozzi ‘10? (Remember, you’re nobody ’till somebody loves you…)

The new governor, and the possible uses of chaos in Albany and on Wall Street.

About Albany girls and New York women.

An unexpected development.

Will Paterson be willing or able to adopt the Spitzer administration’s methodical approach to Upstate revival? Should he?