Last night our Governor decided to appoint a new Lieutenant Governor in order to hopefully break ties in the NYS Senate, and maybe get our dysfunctional state legislature to actually do their jobs. Unfortunately, it appears that the Governor doesn’t have the constitutional authority to do that. Or maybe he does. Only after a long, protracted court fight will we know for sure. In the meantime, it’ll be business (or, rather, lack of business) as usual. I find it interesting to note that our State Senators who don’t live in Albany get $160 day per diem for every day they’re in Albany (which lately means showing up once a day for two minutes to attend one of the Gov’s “special sessions”). That’s over $1,100 a week on top of their base pay of about $80,000 a year, and whatever else they get for committee assignments, discretionary budgets, and bribes. Oh, and they get mileage, too. Pretty good gig, if you ask me.

Sounds like not everybody was thrilled to hear Marc with Lewis Black the other day.

Didn’t anyone tell Marc Maron that the show was supposed to be about Lewis, not about him? From the first “question” which seemed to last about 10 minutes, he acted as if the whole night was his. I know I’m not the only one to have felt this way as I heard people around me grumbling that Marc was “hogging the time” and going way overboard on his stories. He’s a funny guy. but the guy we came to see was Lewis, who took it all in good humor, I thought. What else can one do when a narcissist takes over?

Oh well, can’t please everybody, I guess.