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9/11 Repost
Every year I like to repost one of my fondest memories of the World Trade Center, a piece about the time I saw the Fleshtones at Windows on the World, the self-proclaimed “Greatest Bar on Earth”, on the top floor of the now demolished buildings. It’s not the best writing I’ve ever done, but [...]
Read More..>>Naked Bike Ride (NSFW)
Let me tell you, riding in the Philly Naked Bike Ride was no joke, even if it WAS the funniest thing I think I’ve ever done in my life. About 300 of us, most in at least some stage of undress (the men were, by and large, more bold about stripping down entirely than the [...]
Read More..>>New Philadelphia Weeekly, 9/11 Edition
My new philly Weekly article is up. Please visit and comment…
Read More..>>Lucy Parsons on Labor Day
Something to remember this labor day, when the party of working people is busy handing public wealth to the banks, sending our kids to die in unwinnable wars, and busily gutting their own promises to provide every American with quality health care so not one more person is denied services, is the work of Lucy [...]
Read More..>>Playing With Fire: Actual Parents React to Potential Supreme Court Decision on Student Strip Searches
As many of you know, the Supreme Court took up the case of school strip searches this week:
he Supreme Court seemed worried Tuesday about tying the hands of school officials looking for drugs and weapons on campus as they wrestled with the appropriateness of a strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen.
Savana [...]
Accountability Now: Already Rattling Some Nerves
Someone’s feeling a little threatened:
YELLIN: You know, some Democrats like to say they can be their own worst enemies. Well now a liberal group of Democrats is organizing and raising money to target some of their own. They say they’re worried about keeping certain Democratic members of Congress honest.
[VIDEO] MARKOS: If you’re an [...]
Accountability NOW.
Black Flag: Rise Above
They distort what we say
Rise above
Were gonna rise above
Try and stop what we do
Rise above
When they cant do it themselves
We are tired of your abuse
Try to stop us its no use
WE ARE COMING FOR YOU:
Washington, DC — Accountability Now PAC announced its plans today to use primaries to hold incumbents to account [...]
February 14: I Love My Library Day
This Saturday is Valentines Day, and what Philadelphia institution is more deserving of a little love than our beleagured branch libraries?
Celebrate Philadelphia’s great public libraries at the following branches this Saturday, February 14, 2009. And make sure you see below for an earlier event at the Ogontz Branch.
Haddington – 446 N. 65th Street
1-3pm : Arts [...]
WILL SENATOR SPECTER STAND UP FOR PENNSYLVANIA OR GROVEL BEFORE RUSH LIMBAUGH?
Which will it be Arlen?
Sure, Areln Specter likes to parade around as a moderate (even though he supported anti-choice zealots Roberts and Alito, even though he helped gut the 4th Amendment, even though he voted in favor of legalizing torture and repealing habeas corpus), but where does he really stand?
Just a week ago, he was [...]
Straight Talk from John McCain
Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain’s intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and [...]
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