Archive for the 'Philadelphia' Category
i Gotta Start Carrying a Camera
This morning around 8:00 AM while ile driving Sam to camp, I passed a man who looked like life had beaten the shit out of him walking up woodland avenue toward the VA Hospital carrying a bag of piss. He looked half drunk, he was disheveled and unshaven.
From the bag, there was a hose that [...]
Eleven Dimensional Chess
Listening to WHYY’s rebroadcast of Radio Times, which deals with the impact of Tom Corbett’s methodically mad and deeply cruel spending cuts, reminded me of something I think it’s important to repeat.
Just so we’re clear, Tom Corbett and the rest of the newly-elected right wing governors care about re-election about as much as Mohammed Atta [...]
Dear Michael Nutter…
Go eat a bag of dicks for vetoing earned sick time.
I hope you can’t go anywhere in Philadelphia without people coughing and sneezing in your face and on your food. I hope you come down with the flu for the rest of your life.
Open Letter to Coca-Cola and Pepsi: You Lost a Customer for Life. Go Fuck Yourselves.
Yesterday, Philadelphia’s City Council voted overwhelmingly to save our failing schools, led by an incompetent and probably corrupt superintendent, by raising property taxes by nearly 4%, the third such hike in three years. The competing proposal, to tax soda pop by 2 cents a bottle, was defeated. I wonder why?
Meanwhile, anti-soda-tax forces were [...]
A Response to Dan Rottenberg
Tara Murtha has an ibncredible peice in the Philly Weekly today, a further response to writer Dan Rottenberg’s apologia for rape. In this incredibly misguided piece filled with discredited ideas, perhaps the worst was when Rottenberg wrote:
in practice, rape and the notion of sexual conquest persist for the same reason that warfare persists: because the [...]
Arlene Ackerman: Piggie of the Week
Allyson Schwartz Isn’t a “Rising Star”: She’s a SNAKE
Item:
U.S. REP. Allyson Schwartz is a pearl-necklace-wearing policy wonk who prides herself on picking her battles and choosing her words carefully. But sometimes she just has to speak her mind.
Even if it means telling one of her colleagues that he’s being, well, a wiener.
Schwartz, who represents parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery counties, was the first [...]
“I Got it From Agnes”: the Theme Song for Earned Sick Time
Here in Philadelphia, there’s an ongoing campaign to ensure that all workers get earned sick time: that is, paid days off sick.
To someone like me, who’s had paid sick days for years, it’s a no-brainer. If you’re sick, or your kid is sick, you get a paid day off. But in Philly, 41% of [...]
Allyson Schwartz Should Shut Her Piehole about Wiener’s Wiener
Updated Below
Oh look, here’s pennsylvania’s favorite family-destroying scold, Allyson Schwartz, calling for Anthony Wiener do step down. Someone tell this loudmouthed sack of shit to shut her piehole.
Let’s get some shit straight, shall we? Anthony Wiener’s penis pictures don’t hurt me. They don’t damage my relationship with my fiancee. They don’t take money [...]
Shorter Chris Christie: Philadelphia and New York Do Public Broadcasting Better than Anyone in New Jersey
That is essentially my takeaway on this article:
New Jersey is planning to get out of the broadcasting business, handing control of its New Jersey Network television station to a public broadcasting outfit in New York and laying off its approximately 130 state employees, Gov. Christie announced today.
NJN will become NJTV and will be operated by [...]
