"Can you stop looking at my friend like you want to eat her crotch with your face?" the firebrand on the other side of the Albany-Troy bus demanded of a panhandler sitting in the seat just ahead of me. (this was about fi…

I caught 'An American Carol' with a friend and a friend of a friend tonight. It was a good flick - funny, good cast, gags, etc, and a (thankfully) refreshingly different point of view from the same old same old mainstrea…