If you start cackling maniacally just reading the tabloid headlines from Albany (“Paterson's aides tell of gov's laziness, tantrums and deceits”; “‘Paranoid' gov going ballistic”), just imagine the jokes going around inside the place. A well timed NY Times profile ventured inside the State Capitol which, with Gov. Paterson spinning down the drain, increasingly resembles the set for Shutter Island. “Man, I like crazy; I would love crazy,” responded Keith L.T. Wright, a Democratic assemblyman from Manhattan, when asked if things had ever been this crazy before. “Our forefathers in their infinite wisdom planned for crazy. But this week we moved to insane.” more ›

When we heard the State's Office of General Services is offering "Capitol Hauntings" tours of the Capitol Building in Albany, we were hoping it would involve a room where the bodies were buried after the State Senate coup or maybe an echo chamber with Spitzer saying he's a "fucking steamroller." But, alas, it just involves things like "the legend of the 'Secret Demon' near the Great Western Staircase" and "which two Presidents of the United States are said to have visited the State Capitol after they died." (PDF with more info.) more ›