"Coup" This
The English Revolution of 1688 was a coup. The Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was a coup . The 18 Brumaire was a coup . The Xinhai Revolution of 1911 was a coup. The Orange Revolution a few years back in the Ukraine was a coup . The Egyptain Revolution (not 1919, but 1952 ), the Iranian Revolution (before Ahmadinejad possibly gets voted out this Friday, peacefully), and the Cuban Revolution were all coups. So with all that said, I am little disturbed that what happened in the only place more dysfunctional than Washington D.C., Albany, was called, well......you already know that "C" word. I was born in New York. I've lived my first 18 years of my life in New York. And even with spending my last four years in college up in Boston, New York never left. I'm Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn until the day I die. And every day as I grow in political knowledge, my disgust for what transpires in my state's capital continues to proportionally augment. But even with how ...