Jeff Kramer, in the Syracuse Post Standard:

"Some Yankee named Eliot Spitzer. He runnin' for governor or somethin'. He sayin' Upstate New York the same as Appalachia. Read it yerself, ya crotchety old hillbilly."

By now, my eBay session has done timed out, and I gotta run outside to use the facilities while there's still daylight. So I tell Leigh Roy that I'll take the article with me and read it out there. Upstate multi-taskin', we call it.

Whether by design or coincidence, Spitzer's rival for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Tom Suozzi, has been utterly silent on Appalachia-gate. In any event, they'll both have a lot to talk about on their campaign swings between Schenectedy and Niagara this summer.