q.s. quickies

we’re all-archive now

March 01, 2009 04:59

digital age aging digits pause at the keyboard … dagosan After almost 6 years and 2500 postings, f/k/a has stopped publishing new material as of March 1, 2009.  Of course, it’s all still here in our archives, so please browse to find thousands of quality haiku by a couple dozen fine poets,...

just getting to know you

March 01, 2009 04:16

We wouldn’t be the f/k/a Gang, if we weren’t frantically scampering to meet a self-imposed deadline on a Saturday night.  It’s a good thing we can re-use the same words written the first time we closed down this weblog, in October 2003, with only minor changes: Doing ethicalEsq...

probably not our last slippery slope

February 28, 2009 09:15

reprise: “ethicalEsq’s first slippery slope” (posted Dec. 23, 2003) giacalone giacalone & giacalone, Christmas 1950 (photo by Mama G.) moving day dust bunnies and shadows left behind …. by dagosanreprise: “ethicalEsq’s first slippery slope” (posted...

nostalgic about Blawg Review

February 23, 2009 14:36

.. Ed & Edison in Schenectady (Jan. 2009)  .. .. What a strange coincidence: Just as I was announcing that this would be the last week of production for f/k/a, my friend “Ed Post” was putting together this week’s version of Blawg Review — #200!! — which opens with...

Albany City Court Judge says local sex offender law is pre-empted

February 20, 2009 14:14

In a thoughtful 12-page decision, dated Feb. 18, 2009, Albany [New York] City Court Judge Thomas K. Keefe refused to enforce the City’s sex offender residency law, using the Oberlander case as precedent, and refusing to follow a decision by his City Court benchmate, Judge Rachel Kretser.  See...