My longtime best friend Chris gets married Saturday. Being the Best Man, I have the honor and/or duty of giving the toast. Speaking in front of large groups of people doesn’t really bother me, the only problem is that Chris was my Best Man at our wedding and his toast was good. [...]

With California Attorney General Bill Lockyer being the first to launch an investigation into oil company “profiteering”, I’m sure the antithesis of big business, Eliot Spitzer, is chomping at the bit to get in on the action and play to the hearts of the liberal voters.
I hope he does. I hope he breaks down [...]

Below is a letter that the Anti-Flipping Task Force sent to eBay:
(from Buffalo Issue Alerts)
April 13, 2006
Michelle Mallory Peacock
Deputy Director, State Governmental Regulations
eBay, Inc.
2145 Hamilton Ave.
San Jose, CA 95125
Dear Ms. Peacock:
We appreciate that eBay is taking our concerns seriously, as stated in
your letter dated February 21, 2006, as well as your stated commitment
to work diligently [...]

As promised in a previous post, I wrote a letter to the editor of The Sun in response to their editorial on tearing down the Skyway. There it was today, filling up a huge section of the editorial page. Reprinted here:
Editor, The Sun:
The Skyway has certainly become a hot topic since waterfront development [...]

Take a very close look at this graphic prepared by the Department of Energy:

Now tell me… who is gouging the consumer? Only 18% of the cost of a gallon of gas is even related to the refiner… and it includes their profit AND cost. The government, which has no part in [...]

You need this:

I am absolutely sure that they ARE put to some good use, but when out with friends on a Saturday night they can become an interesting thing. We came up with a few good suggestions for how to put them to use for your own enjoyment and humor.

Stand in front of it and just [...]

I was wondering why last week out of the blue Dan Meyer, editor of The Sun decided out of the blue to comment on an old Skyway post I wrote. Then I opened up my copy of The Sun to find this editorial:

Watching TV last night, I saw a commercial for a car I was completely unfamiliar with – the Dodge Caliber. Looked kind of interesting – nice small crossover, not too big, Gen-X options like Bluetooth enabled, a cooler in the glove compartment, and a jack for your iPod. So I swung over to [...]

I follow the digest emails from Buffalo Issue Alerts because the Terminal comes up in there every once in awhile. It’s a Yahoo group that consists largely of preservationists and anti-casino advocates. I don’t think I’ve ever posted before, because I prefer the wider range of opinions at SpeakupWNY.
However, in the [...]