Archive for the 'survival' Category
Philadelphia Newspapers For Sale, But Philadelphia Newspapers Yawn At News
[note: i'll be reformatting those screen shots later today].
It’s 8:40 in the morning and I should be getting ready for work. Instead, I’m running late because I was listening to WHYY’s Sue Phillips do a fantastic piece on today’s auction, which will see the bankrupt Philadelphia Media Holdings sold off to the highest bidder. [...]
Brian Tierney’s Stinky Doesn’t Grasp the Concept of “NEWS”
As I’ve noted before, there’s a good reason WHY I don’t read the Stinky, a/k/a the floundering Philadelphia Inquirer: since taking over as publisher, Brian Tierney has presided over what Daniel U-A rightly identifies as “the Right-Wing Hackifying of the Inquirer Op-Ed Pages”. And boy oh boy, did Tierney’s fishwrapper STINK this weekend, publishing [...]
Read More..>>What Republicans Don’t think Americans Need
via Clammy C at Daily Kos notes that every single republican in the house voted NO on Obama’s proposed stimulus:
So here is a partial list of the programs that republicans think America doesn’t need (and I will say that there are alternative proposals by House republicans, including one by my own odious Representative, Scott Garrett, [...]
WHEN WILL THE EAGLES SETTLE THEIR DEBT AND SAVE OUR LIBRARIES?
D-E-A-D-B-E-A-T-S!
If Jeff Lurie and the Eagles won’t settle the team’s debt, the mayor, everyone on city council, every paper in town, and every fan from every neighborhood should be screaming bloody murder until they do.
The Daily News has printed one single editorial about this. To the best of my knowledge, the Inquirer has said nothing [...]
Why is the Inky Covering a Corporate Deadbeat Team?
Ed Snider Does a Good Thing
looks like someone stepped up to the plate:
A public-private partnership is stepping up to save three city skating rinks whose futures were on thin ice.
Mayor Nutter and Ed Snider, chairman of Comcast-Spectacor, announced yesterday that the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation would take over operation and programming at three rinks that officials said were targeted [...]
Weekend Protests
National Protest for Gay Rights
I’ve never written that much about gay rights issues. I have a few gay friends, but it’s never been a major focus of my political consciousness. In the wake of Proposition 8, I’m seeings quite a bit differently. I don’t like bigots. I especially don’t like religiously motivated [...]
Obama Victory Good for Pennsylvania
Obama and Casey are very close:
The pair met in ‘05 in Philly, where Obama did a fundraiser for Casey. He did two more in ‘06, the year Casey beat Republican incumbent Rick Santorum.
Then Casey, while almost every prominent Pennsylvania Democrat backed Hillary Clinton, endorsed Obama last March and traveled with him during the primary [...]
Bankruptcy Bill Now Screwing Credit Cards as Well As Consumers
A long time ago, I read a wonderful science fiction story, which might have actually been the basis of a “Twilight Zone” episode.
The story was set far in the future in an economic dystopia. Most people are unemployed, sustained by the government, and there is a long waiting list for even the basest manual labor. [...]
GOP Staffers: Waitin’ In Your Welfare Line
A glance at the Republican job bank page on Texas Rep. John R. Carter’s website paints the whole, bleak picture with what it doesn’t show: real jobs.
“It’s a double-whammy,” said Brad Traverse, whose staffing website, www.bradtraverse.com, is a popular destination for job seekers on the Hill. “You have more firms who are both looking for [...]
