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Conversation With Bob Casey’s Office on TSA
Riiiiiiing….riiiiiiiiiing
“hello, Senator Bob Casey’s office, Tayeesha speaking.”
“Hi Tayeesha, my name’s Brendan Skwire. I’m a constituent calling from Philadelphia, and I have a number of concerns for the Senator related to the TSA.
“I’ve spent the weekend reading a number of disturbing articles about the TSA” I quoted from Goldberg’s most salient piece:
During a trip last Sunday [...]
Light Blogging this Weekend
I am in Montreal and have limited access to the intertoobs (and the keyboard is set to French, which makes apostrophes look like this: è…
and makes question marks look like this: É
Anyway, visiting with the teachers, hanging out with Sam, and hitting a bunch of shows tonight at the Montreal Pop Festival.
I love [...]
Free the Taraz Ten
This story makes me angry:
The website is called “Becky & Jeremy’s Exciting Adoption Adventure,” created by a Haverford couple to capture a once-in-a-lifetime odyssey to bring home a son from Kazakhstan as well as the joys of raising a first child.
But what has happened so far to Becky Compton, Jeremy Meyer, and the 16-month-old they [...]
Obama Admin: Cut Food Stamps to Pay for Race to the Top
The more you read, the more you learn that “hope and change” is a slogan, no different from “the quicker picker upper.”
The fact is, Obama wanted to cut food stamps to pay for Race to the Top, aka “No Child Left Behind” with a different name:
My point is that I have been working for school [...]
happy birthday, baby
Christina is 30 today. Happy birthday sweetie, I love you!
Read More..>>Damn You, Scott Colan!!!
Yesterday, Sam went to a birthday party for his friend Charlie, and one of the party favors was a mix-cd that Charlie’s dad Scott put together. The songs are all kid-friendly (the techno remix of Scooby Doo is awesome), but some of them go waaaaaay to far into “stuck-in-your-head-for-days” territory. Like “Number 2″, by [...]
Read More..>>Reminder: Phillyist Framed this Friday
My brother’s work is going to be part of Phillyist Framed this Friday at Studio 34 Yoga (4522 Baltimore Avenue in West Philly).
Specifically:
Phillyist Framed 2010 Opening Reception
Studio 34 (4522 Baltimore Avenue)
Friday, January 29th
7 – 9 p.m.
FREE!
Be there!
Phillyist Framed: Friday 1/29/2010
Phillyist Framed holds its opening gala this Friday, January 29, 2010 at Studio 34 Yoga.
My brother Ray has an entry. Hope to see you there!
Word to the Wise
Sam is visiting, so I’m not really doing too much blogging this week. However, there’s some good stuff brewing. Later this evening, I’ll be writing about our adventures with US Airways’ incompetence, as well as their surely deliberate failure to implement a complaints department (amazingly, only accessible via FAX, I shit you not).
Also, for [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
I’m in Madison Wisconsin for the rest of the week. Happy Thanksgiving!
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