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Tim Tielman has transformed obstructionism into a successful protection racket, and this is good for Buffalo.
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1. Shorter Buffalo News piece on Deputy Mayor Steve Casey: he’s a dick who terrorizes staff and throws Democrats under the bus in favor of Chris Collins, but he’s the Mayor’s dick. 2. The Buffalo News...
View ArticleUnfair Blame and Facile Hypocrisy
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, is widely attributed to Jimmy Carter’s Director of the Office of Budget and Management Bert Lance. He coined it to describe a simple way to save government money....
View ArticleDonny And The Great Concrete Elevator
Donn Esmonde just loves the grain elevators, and he loves people who love what he loves. Those crumbling concrete gravestones to a long-gone industrial time might be big and ugly, but by gosh they tell...
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Now that my wife and I are nearing the end of our work-life, it’s high time those union thugs that guaranteed our own financial security, good wages, pensions, and benefits, get with the tea party...
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In a city where the only growth industry is crippling nostalgia, we must explore and exploit new sources of it.
View ArticleDonn Esmonde Looks at things Backwards
“Donn Esmonde is an Ass” is the name of the series, and he seldom, if ever disappoints. In Friday’s column, he devoted about 550 words to talking about how lame Byron Brown is and how Bernie Tolbert...
View ArticleDonn Esmonde Makes Kevin Gaughan, Poor People Unlikeable,
Friday Because Donn Esmonde is such an ass, everything is somehow magically about him. Everything. Including the Erie County Democratic Committee’s decision to ask regionalism and downsizing advocate...
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Part of the running “Donn Esmonde is an Ass” series, “shorter” takes a typical 500-word Esmonde column and reduces it to a couple of sentences. I try to preserve the general tone and theme of the...
View ArticleLoanshark Politics and Other Things
Endorsements will come tomorrow both in text and by way of a Trending Buffalo podcast I’m recording with Brad Riter and Artvoice editor Geoff Kelly today. In the meantime, 1. Donn Esmonde is still an...
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1. Sergio Rodriguez is a swell guy, but he has no hope – a “sand castle has a better chance in a tsunami”. So, I will label his run for Mayor “quixotic” and otherwise dismiss him altogether, while...
View ArticleEsmonde’s Exceptional Ethics
Let’s get something clear, here. Donn Esmonde is a hypocrite. He is a semi-retired former-and-current City/Region columnist for the Buffalo News. Donn Esmonde thinks your kid deserves a quality...
View ArticleEsmonde Goes For Disclosure
In response to this article I wrote about a week ago, Donn Esmonde adds this to a column about killing skunks: Mea culpa: I wrote three columns in the last two years concerning or mentioning the...
View ArticleDonny, Can You Hear Me?
Because you want to hear me explain this in a more direct and profane way, here is the audio version of “Donn Esmonde is an Ass”, recorded over lunchtime Thursday with Trending Buffalo’s Brad Riter....
View ArticleThe Esmonde Template
Sunday brought us a treat – the quintessential Donn Esmonde congratubatory piece. The foundational document. The template. The “we the columnist” from the tea party champion. It has everything – Tim...
View ArticleCarl the RINO and Donny’s Shovel
1. Tea Party Champion Carl Paladino: Who better to lead a protest than a perpetually incensed, elderly millionaire? What better thing to protest than “socializing” America? Who better to “send a...
View Article10 Worst of 2013
Because it’s the end of the year, it’s compulsory to do a nostalgia listicle, right? This is culled from my own posts here at Artvoice daily, and not intended to be comprehensive. Everything chosen...
View ArticleWelcome To Buffalo, You Philistines
I literally cringed while I read this. Not figuratively – but “for real”. The title of the piece itself is cringeworthy in its clumsiness – “Welcome to Buffalo, folks, you’re in for a nice surprise”....
View ArticleDonn Esmonde, Ass and Other Things
1. The Buffalo News’ Jerry Zremski has an interesting piece about Williamsville native Andrea Bozek, the current head of communications for the National Republican Campaign Committee. Tagged as...
View ArticleThe Curse of the Donn Esmonde Column
What better way to explain away systemic failure than to do what they did in the Middle Ages and just blame it on some supernatural curse? The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy first articulated the...
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