 Keith Olbermann, the bombastic cornerstone of MSNBC's evening talk show block, announced that tonight's Countdown with Keith Olbermann was his last on the cable news network. Olberman, who was suspended last November and said NBC's policy about donation disclosure was probably not legal, over not disclosing political donations to management, said tonight, "There were many occasions, particularly in the last two-and-a-half years, where all that surrounded the show—but never the show itself—was just too much for me. But your support and loyalty and, if I may use the word, insistence, ultimately required me to keep going. My gratitude to you is boundless and if you think I've done any good here, imagine how it looked from this end...this may be the only television program wherein the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa." Here's video and a rough transcript is below: [MORE]  | Williamsburg's condo boom went bust during the Great Recession, but now that high-income New Yorkers have gotten back on their feet, the condos are a-rockin' again. And the neighborhood is being flooded with a new breed of hipster... breeders. Not that the two cliches are mutually exclusive; just check out the crowd at a They Might Be Giants kids' show (half of the band, John Flansburgh, is also a Williamsburgher). The NY Times loves a good trend (especially in Brooklyn), and a new article headlined "Williamsburg, Toddlertown," explains what happens when a man and a woman love each other very much and make a baby in a Brooklyn neighborhood THAT IS NOT PARK SLOPE. How is that even possible?! You could read it all yourself, but maybe it's a little too early on a Friday to throw up in your mouth. Not for us; here are our four favorite regurgitated parts:... [ MORE ] |  | First catpacks, and now solar garbage cans... what can't Park Slope deliver? According to FIPS, some "Big Belly solar powered garbage cans are going to be installed in various spots along Fifth Avenue. They are apparently each outfitted with a solar powered trash compactor, which reduces the need to empty them as much." ... [ MORE ] |  | Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is really ramping up his 2012 whisper presidential campaign. And by whisper, we mean, talk show. The other day he was telling CNBC's Larry Kudlow that the door to 2012 was "absolutely" open and, on this coming Monday night's Piers Morgan Tonight, Giuliani says that if Sarah Palin, hell, he might as well throw his hat in the ring, too. Here's the exchange that CNN is previewing:... [ MORE ] |  | A Brooklyn couple was charged with animal hoarding after near 100 cats—many flea-bitten and dehydrated— were found in their home last summer. The Daily News reports that Michael and Hazel Fiore "face a 252-count indictment for keeping the tortured tabbies in a rented Williamsburg loft that reeked of decomposing cat carcases, feces and urine. The extent of the horror came to light in July, when five kittens, two of them blind, fell through urine-soaked rotting floorboards from the third-floor space to the loft below." ... [ MORE ] |  | Last night, Keith Olbermann surprised viewers by saying it was his last broadcast of his MSNBC talk show, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, saying he was “told that this is the last edition of your show." While MSNBC sources say the decision was mutual, the talk show host's and cable network's relationship apparently took a toll after Olbermann's political donations during the midterms—exposed by Politico—turned into a suspension for the 51-year-old, who then complained about it when he returned on air. According to The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz, NBC and MSNBC executives "began to talk [after the suspension] about how the channel was now on solid enough footing to survive without him."... [ MORE ] |  | An 80-year-old woman is suing Home Depot for age discrimination after the store fired her for buying four 6-cent screws and not actually taking them home. Ellen Strickland says she bought the 24-cents worth of merchandise in order to get cash back on her debit card, something employees did all the time to avoid being charged ATM fees. However, Home Depot accused her of messing up inventory and after a "full investigation" she was fired less than 24 hours later.... [ MORE ] | | |
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